This thesis argues that key works of nineteenth-century children’s literature, fairy tales, and twenty-first-century live-action Disney film mobilise progressive and subversive representations of mad and/or disabled women in order to express agency a... Read More about Femininity, Madness, and Disability in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature and Film Adaptation: A Study in Textual and Visual Forms.
Prof Jade Munslow Ong's Outputs (72)
Session 1: Experience Decolonising across disciplines in postgraduate research and supervision (April 2023) (2023)
Digital Artefact
Title: South African Literature, Decolonisation, and the English Literature A-Level
Summary: In this lecture and Q+A, Jade will discuss what 'decolonising the curriculum' might mean for the discipline of English Studies. Drawing on examples from h... Read More about Session 1: Experience Decolonising across disciplines in postgraduate research and supervision (April 2023).
22/02/2021 - Loreto College (2022)
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22/02/2021 - Loreto College
Delivery [online due to COVID-19]:
x2 1 hour lectures and x6 1 hour workshops on Olive Schreiner and South African Modernism (Eduqas)
99 students; 6 teachers.
Data:
Student Comments via the chatbox on Microsoft... Read More about 22/02/2021 - Loreto College.
‘Too uncompromising a figure to be so disposed of’ : Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner (2022)
Journal Article
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
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.
Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing (2021)
Thesis
This thesis argues that Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), Tekahionwake (E. Pauline Johnson) and Mary Kawena Pūku’i mobilise literary representations of more-than-human beings – plants, animals, and the land – to express resistance to the gendered... Read More about Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing.
Kingship, kinship and the king of beasts in early southern African novels (2020)
Book Chapter
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
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
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
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.