Zimbler, Dr Jarad

Job Title: Junior Research Fellow in World Literatures of the 20th and 21st Centuries
College: Wolfson
Period/ Subject: 20th-21st Century; Postcolonial and world literatures; Language and linguistics

Email address: jarad.zimbler@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

I am at present completing a monograph, provisionally entitled A World Laid Bare: The Unsettling Languages of J.M. Coetzee, which aims to trace the subterranean operations of syntax, lexis, prosody and semantics by means of which the bare, stark and brooding intensity of Coetzee’s prose style is produced.

In my next research project I ask what it means to make oneself at home, exploring this question in response to the pervasive cultural myth of exile, which has been nourished by the lives and careers of modernist, post-modernist and post-colonial authors, and elaborated by critics, such as Edward Said, who have encouraged intellectuals to foster a sense of homelessness. This research will focus on a number of literary exiles of the Cold War period and the manner in which these authors attempted to make homes for themselves, not in their adopted nations, but in particular literary environments, by embracing new genres, modes and styles.

Teaching Areas:20th-21st Century Literature; Linguistics and Literature; Literary Theory; Literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora; Postcolonial Writing and Theory; 

Recent Publications:

• 'Caring, Teaching, Knowing: Spivak, Coetzee and the Practice of Postcolonial Pedagogies'. Parallax 17.3 (2011) 19-31.
• 'For Neither Love nor Money: The Place of Political Art in Pierre Bourdieu's Literary Field.' Textual Practice 23.4 (2009) 599-620.
• 'Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J.M. Coetzee's Foe'. English Studies in Africa 47.1 (2004) 57-59.

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