All Outputs (7)

‘Make them roll in their graves’: South African Writing, Decolonisation, and the English Literature A-Level (2024)
Journal Article
Helm, H., Barnes, E., Barnes, K., & Munslow Ong, J. (in press). ‘Make them roll in their graves’: South African Writing, Decolonisation, and the English Literature A-Level. English in Education, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2024.2312189

This article analyses the activities and early outcomes of an ongoing co-designed and co-delivered research impact project entitled ‘Decolonising the English Literature A-Level’. It draws on examples from three case studies, classroom experiences, an... Read More about ‘Make them roll in their graves’: South African Writing, Decolonisation, and the English Literature A-Level.

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)
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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.

Allegory and animals in Olive Schreiner’s Undine : A Queer Little Child (1929) (2016)
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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).

“I’m only a dog!” : the Rwandan genocide, dehumanisation and the graphic novel (2016)
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Munslow Ong, J. (2016). “I’m only a dog!” : the Rwandan genocide, dehumanisation and the graphic novel. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 51(2), 211-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989415624958

Graphic novels written in response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide do not confine their depictions of traumatic violence to humans, but extend their coverage to show how the genocide impacted on animals and the environment. Through analysis of the prese... Read More about “I’m only a dog!” : the Rwandan genocide, dehumanisation and the graphic novel.

Dream time and anti-imperialism in the writings of Olive Schreiner (2014)
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Munslow Ong, J. (2014). Dream time and anti-imperialism in the writings of Olive Schreiner. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(6), 704-716. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2014.951201

This article explores how Olive Schreiner utilizes politicized modernist aesthetics, specifically the manipulation of time through allegory and dream, to resist structures of empire. The claim that Schreiner’s work should be received and analysed as... Read More about Dream time and anti-imperialism in the writings of Olive Schreiner.