Publications
Please find enclosed a list of my publications, where possible with corresponding links
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A) Books
B) Publications in Peer-reviewed Journals
  • Barker, D and L de Kock. 2007. The Gold Standard: Some Functions of the Academic Article in Peer-Reviewed Journals in South Africa. Journal of Literary Studies 23:2, 105-117. [PDF document]
  • Barker, D and L de Kock. 2007. Don't Go Wessa, Young Man: Doctrinal Groups in SA English Literary Discourse. scrutiny2 (accepted and due to be published in 2007 edition). [PDF document]
  • Barker, D and L de Kock. 2007. How South African Literature Got Squeezed Out, and then Slipped In: English Academic Literary Discourse in South Africa 1946-1996. English Studies in Africa (accepted and due to be published in 2007 edition). [MS Word document]
  • Barker, D. Green Fields: Ecocriticism in South Africa JALA - Journal of the African Literature Association (accepted and due to be published in 2007 edition). [PDF document]
  • Barker, D. Crossing Lines: The Novels of Nadine Gordimer with a particular focus on Occasion for Loving and The Pickup. Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies (currently under review). [MS Word document]
  • Barker, D. Introducing Zakes Mda: A Survey of Approaches to his Novels. English Studies (The Netherlands) (currently under review). [MS Word document]
  • Barker, D. Escaping the Tyranny of Magic Realism A Discussion of the Term in Relation to the Novels of Zakes Mda. Postcolonial Text (currently under review).
C) Chapters in books / Anthologies
  • Barker, D. The Postcolonial Sublime: The No.1 Popular Detective Series and the Invention of Botswana. (This article has been accepted for publication in the anthology of articles titled "Fictions, Factions and African Creative Imaginations" to be published in 2007 under the auspices of the University of Austin, Texas.)
  • Barker, D. Major Trends and Developments in Peer-Reviewed English Academic Literary Journals in South Africa: 1958 – 2004. (This article is currently under review by Cambridge College Press (within an anthology); in any event, will be published in early 2008 within the proceedings of the EACLALS held at University of Presov, Presov, Slovakia.)
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