The Making of All That Is Buried: Dialog, Chronotope and Decoloniality (2023)
Journal Article
Tracey, M., Stanton-Sharma, S., Nivesjo, S., Barnes, E., & Munslow Ong, J. (2023). The Making of All That Is Buried: Dialog, Chronotope and Decoloniality. Journal of Media Practice, https://doi.org/10.1080/25741136.2023.2289095

This article argues for the utility of Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary theories in developing dialogic and decolonial filmmaking practices. Using the example of our research-led documentary film, All That Is Buried, we challenge traditionally hierarchical... Read More about The Making of All That Is Buried: Dialog, Chronotope and Decoloniality.

‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner (2022)
Journal Article
Munslow Ong, J. (2022). ‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner. English Studies in Africa, 65(1), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2022.2055855

In her 1925 review of an edited collection of Olive Schreiner’s letters, Virginia Woolf described Schreiner as ‘too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’. Prompted by this intriguing comment, this article brings Woolf’s late-1920s writings in... Read More about ‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner.

Decolonising the English Literature GCE A-Level via the South African ex-centric (2021)
Journal Article
Munslow Ong, J. (2021). Decolonising the English Literature GCE A-Level via the South African ex-centric. English, 70(270), 244-252. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efab009

In this snapshot article, I outline the background and context for the development of research-led teaching activities aimed at students pursuing the WJEC Eduqas GCE A-Level English Literature qualification. The aims of these activities are threefold... Read More about Decolonising the English Literature GCE A-Level via the South African ex-centric.

Kingship, kinship and the king of beasts in early southern African novels (2020)
Book Chapter
Munslow Ong, J. (2021). Kingship, kinship and the king of beasts in early southern African novels. In S. McHugh, R. McKay, & J. Miller (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature (423-435). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39773-9_30

Human interactions with pantherine cats are used to establish new imperial, social and familial structures in Southern African literature. The chapter will focus on Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka (1925, trans. 1931) and Solomon Plaatje’s Mhudi (written 1920,... Read More about Kingship, kinship and the king of beasts in early southern African novels.

Imperial ecologies and extinction in H.G. Wells’s island stories (2019)
Book Chapter
Munslow Ong, J. (2019). Imperial ecologies and extinction in H.G. Wells’s island stories. In L. Mazzeno, & R. Morrison (Eds.), Victorian Environmental Nightmares (185-206). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter analyses how two of H.G. Wells’s island stories, “Aepyornis Island” from The Stolen Bacillus (1894), and The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), expose the extirpative consequences of human, animal and plant colonization in the context of th... Read More about Imperial ecologies and extinction in H.G. Wells’s island stories.

Olive Schreiner and African Modernism : allegory, empire and postcolonial writing (2017)
Book
Munslow Ong, J. (2017). Olive Schreiner and African Modernism : allegory, empire and postcolonial writing. New York and Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315677507

This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and aesthetic experimentation in African literature. The book is... Read More about Olive Schreiner and African Modernism : allegory, empire and postcolonial writing.

Allegory and animals in Olive Schreiner’s Undine : A Queer Little Child (1929) (2016)
Journal Article
Munslow Ong, J. (2017). Allegory and animals in Olive Schreiner’s Undine : A Queer Little Child (1929). Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53(4), 401-413. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2016.1220667

Written and abandoned in the 1870s, and published posthumously in 1929, Undine: A Queer Little Child has remained on the margins of Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) studies, repeatedly dismissed as a juvenile and poor antecedent to The Story of An African... Read More about Allegory and animals in Olive Schreiner’s Undine : A Queer Little Child (1929).

Olive Schreiner in the World: An Introduction
Book Chapter
Munslow Ong, J., & Van der Vlies, A. (in press). Olive Schreiner in the World: An Introduction. In J. Munslow Ong, & A. Van der Vlies (Eds.), Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

The Bloomsbury Modernisms of Margaret Harkness and Olive Schreiner
Book Chapter
Munslow Ong, J. (in press). The Bloomsbury Modernisms of Margaret Harkness and Olive Schreiner. In J. Munslow Ong, & A. van der Vlies (Eds.), Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press