Tony Simoes da Silva (University of Wollongong, Australia)

Submitted: Sat, June 14, 2008


Dr. Tony Simoes da Silva
Lecturer in Transcultural Studies
Faculty of Arts
School of English Literatures, Philosophy, and Language
University of Wollongong
NSW 2522
Australia

phone:  61 2 42215898
fax:    61 2 42214471
email:  tonys@uow.edu.au

Web-page:  http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/selpl/scd/UOW037989.html


Research and Teaching interests: African writing in English and Portuguese 
(Lusophone African writing); postcolonial life writing (with an emphasis 
on Southern African African and Caribbean texts); writing and 
subjectivity; Postcolonial theory; Literary and cultural theories; 
contemporary Australian, Caribbean and Indian writing (in English); 20th 
Century British literature and culture, with emphasis on Afro-British 
authors.

Selected Publications:

Book: 

The Luxury of Nationalist Despair: The Fiction of George Lamming. Amsterdam and Atlanta:
Rodopi, 2000.
 

Contributions to Books: 

"Redeeming Self: the Business of Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South 
Africa," In Transnational Whiteness Matters, Eds. Maryrose Casey, Aileen 
Moreton-Robinson & Fiona Nicoll. Lexington Books, 2008. Forthcoming. 

"Narrating a White Africa: Autobiography, race and history," Connecting 
Cultures, ed. Emma Bainbridge. London: Routledge. 2007. 

"José Craveirinha," Refereed author entry, Reference Guide to World 
Literature, Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Detroit: St. James 
Press, 2003. 

"Half-Home: A Reading of Sneja Gunew's Framing Marginality." In Authority 
and Influence: Australian literary Criticism 1950-2000, Eds Delys Bird, 
Robert Dixon and Christopher Lee, St Lucia: UQP, 2001, 359-363.


Journal Articles 

"Narrating Redemption: Life Writing and Whiteness in The New South Africa: Gillian
Slovo's Every Secret Thing," ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature,
forthcoming, 2008.
 
"'On your knees', White Man: African (Un)Belongings in Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart,"
Partial Answers: A Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, 5.2, 2007.
 
"Narrating a White Africa: Autobiography, race and history," Third World Quarterly,
26.3, 2005, 471-78. 

"Myths, Traditions and Mothers of the Nation: Some Thoughts on Efua Sutherland's
Writing," EnterText, 4.2, 2005. 1-17.

"'Playing with words': politics, poetry and colonialism in José Craveirinha's
work," Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 4.2, 2004. 4-21. 

"Rethinking Marginality: Class, Identity and Desire in Contemporary 
Australian Writing," Life Writing, Inaugural issue, 1.1, 2004. 45-68. 

"Clearing the horizon: science, social sciences and Africa: a 
response," Mots Pluriels, No. 24, June 2003. http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP2403tss.html

"Whose Bombay is it, anyway? A reading of Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay," 
Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 175, 2003. Reprint; first appeared 
in ARIEL: A Review of International Literature in English, 28.3, July 1997, 63-77. 

"African Childhoods: Identity, Race and Autobiography," Mots Pluriels, No. 22, 
August 2002. Special issue on 'The Child in Africa'. http://motspluriels.arts.uwa.edu.au/MP2202tss.html

"Raced Encounters, Sexed Transactions: 'Luso-tropicalism' & the Portuguese Colonial
Empire," Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies, 11.1, July 2002, 27-39. 

"De/colonizing Tales," Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 6.1 & 2, 2001. 
Special issue 'Growing Up Elsewhere' http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v6i1-2/con61.htm


[ Keywords: Anglophone and Lusophone writing ; African women's writing ; 
Southern African writing ; African diasporic writing ]