Critical Perspectives on Damon Galgut

Zbigniew Białas is Professor of English in the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland and author of five novels. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow in Germany, a Fulbright Senior Fellow in the USA and a Rockefeller Research Fellow in Italy. His academic books include Post-Tribal Ethos in African Literature (1993), Mapping Wild Gardens: The Symbolic Conquest of South Africa (1997) and The Body Wall: Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices (2006). His first novel, Korzeniec (2011) was awarded Silesian Literary Laurels and was turned into a successful theatrical play. Zbigniew Białas edited/co-edited twelve academic volumes, published over sixty academic essays, and translated English, American and Nigerian literature into Polish.

• List of ContributorsEditor’s PrefaceZoë Wicomb – Repetition and Recursivity in Two Galgut TextsEwa Dynarowicz – Politics of (Not-)Belonging in Damon Galgut’s The Beautiful Screaming of PigsSławomir Masłoń – Of Love and Murder, and Nothing: The Political Moment of The QuarryMarek Pawlicki – The Genuine Ambivalence of Detachment: Exploring the Socioecological Unconscious in Damon Galgut’s The ImpostorRobert Kusek – Between Two Worlds: Dybbuks and Doppelgängers in the Works of Deborah Levy and Damon GalgutMélanie Joseph-Vilain – “Over and done. Never over, never done”: Unstable Identities and Haunted Voices in Damon Galgut’s The PromiseSarah LeFanu – S/He Has No House: Shared Rooms, Displacement and Contested Property in Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor, In a Strange Room, The Impostor and The PromiseJulia Szołtysek – A Literary Bromance: E. M. Forster’s Rites of Passage in Damon Galgut’s Arctic SummerZbigniew Białas – “Dominion over the domestic scene”? Damon Galgut’s The Promise as a Forsterian plaasromanNedine Moonsamy – First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: Humour and Disaffection in Damon Galgut’s The PromiseZbigniew Białas in conversation with Elleke Boehmer – Damon Galgut and the Matter of South AfricaIndex