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Kai Easton, ‘3 French !!!’ [Leica X. Digital black and white photographs, 2019]. In Dorothy Driver (ed), (2020)
Digital Artefact
Easton, K. (2020). Kai Easton, ‘3 French !!!’ [Leica X. Digital black and white photographs, 2019]. In Dorothy Driver (ed),. [Visual images]. The Text Publishing Company Australia

A Book of Friends is a collection of essays, stories, poems and artworks compiled in honour of J. M. Coetzee on his eightieth birthday. It includes contributions from some of Coetzee’s friends and contemporaries, and is edited by Dorothy Driver, his... Read More about Kai Easton, ‘3 French !!!’ [Leica X. Digital black and white photographs, 2019]. In Dorothy Driver (ed),.

Curating Across Southern Spaces: South-North-South Itineraries (2020)
Book Chapter
Easton, K. (2020). Curating Across Southern Spaces: South-North-South Itineraries. In Scenes from the South: exhibition catalogue from the collections of the Harry Ransom Center and Amazwi South African Museum of Literature to mark the occasion of J. M. Coetzee’s 80th birthday (1-3). Amazwi South African Museum of Literature

Southern Crossings: J. M. Coetzee @ 80 (2020)
Book Chapter
Easton, K. (2020). Southern Crossings: J. M. Coetzee @ 80. In Scenes from the South : from the collections of the Harry Ransom Center and Amazwi South African Museum of literature to mark the occasion of J.M. Coetzee's 80th birthday (13-27). Amazwi South African Museum of Literature

Travelling South with Coetzee (2020)
Book Chapter
Easton, K. (2020). Travelling South with Coetzee. In Scenes from the South : from the collections of the Harry Ransom Center and Amazwi South African Museum of literature to mark the occasion of J.M. Coetzee's 80th birthday (28-72). Amazwi South African Museum of Literature

Scenes from the South: from the collections of the Harry Ransom Center and Amazwi South African Museum of Literature to mark the occasion of J.M. Coetzee’s 80th birthday (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Easton, K. (in press). Scenes from the South: from the collections of the Harry Ransom Center and Amazwi South African Museum of Literature to mark the occasion of J.M. Coetzee’s 80th birthday. [Exhibition]. Exhibited at Amazwi South African Museum of Literature. 1 February 2020. (Unpublished)

The exhibition Scenes from the South, guest curated by Kai Easton of SOAS University of London and David Attwell of the University of York, marks the 80th birthday of Nobel Prizewinning writer J.M. Coetzee at the newly rebranded Amazwi South African... Read More about Scenes from the South: from the collections of the Harry Ransom Center and Amazwi South African Museum of Literature to mark the occasion of J.M. Coetzee’s 80th birthday.

Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill (2019)
Journal Article
Pett, S. (in press). Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill. Literature and Medicine, 37(1), 26-66. https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2019.0001

This article responds to recent criticism of the medical humanities, concentrating on anxieties about the discipline’s failure to take seriously the principles and practices of humanities disciplines such as history and literary studies. Specifically... Read More about Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill.

Road to Oratunga (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Easton, K. Road to Oratunga. [Videos, photos and flyer]. 1 July 2019. (Unpublished)

4'20" video from footage taken during the Oratunga Winter School, 'Creating Out of Place', in July 2019, and featuring in the exhibition, Scenes from the South, at Amazwi South African Museum of Literature and the Harry Ransom Center.
The Winter S... Read More about Road to Oratunga.

Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions (2018)
Book
Yaqin, A., Morey, P., & Soliman, A. (Eds.). (2018). Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71309-0

This book critically engages with the contemporary breakdown of trust between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in the West. It argues that a crisis of trust currently hampers intercultural relations and obstructs full participation in citizenship an... Read More about Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions.

From Islamic fundamentalism to a new life in the west: Ali Eteraz and the Muslim comedy memoir (2018)
Book Chapter
Yaqin, A. (2018). From Islamic fundamentalism to a new life in the west: Ali Eteraz and the Muslim comedy memoir. In A. Yaqin, P. Morey, & A. Soliman (Eds.), Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions (193-214). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71309-0_9

This chapter analyses the Muslim memoir as a hybrid text that both authenticates and satirises the subjectivity of the narrator. Given the social capital of the memoir form, I argue that its trustworthiness is inverted by the author Ali Eteraz to que... Read More about From Islamic fundamentalism to a new life in the west: Ali Eteraz and the Muslim comedy memoir.

Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal. Writing Scotland and South Africa (2017)
Book
Easton, K., & Attridge, D. (Eds.). (2017). Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal. Writing Scotland and South Africa. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315283418

This is the first book on the fiction of Zoë Wicomb, a writer long at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural Windham Campbell prize at Yale in 2013. It brings togethe... Read More about Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal. Writing Scotland and South Africa.

‘Travelling Light’: Images (via Wicomb) from the Gifberge to Glasgow (2017)
Book Chapter
Easton, K. (2017). ‘Travelling Light’: Images (via Wicomb) from the Gifberge to Glasgow. In K. Easton, & D. Attridge (Eds.), Zoë Wicomb and the Translocal: Writing Scotland and South Africa. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315283418-5

On the crest of the last hill, the new Griqua trekkers saw before them the land of Beeswater rolling down from low hills in the west, hemmed in by the Soutrivier in the east, and in the distant south the gleam of Varsrivier's white rocks. Beeswater i... Read More about ‘Travelling Light’: Images (via Wicomb) from the Gifberge to Glasgow.

"Traverses: J. M Coetzee in the World," directed by Professor Jennifer Rutherford, Director of The J. M. Coetzee Center for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide, Australia, 2017 (2017)
Other
Rutherford, J. (2017). "Traverses: J. M Coetzee in the World," directed by Professor Jennifer Rutherford, Director of The J. M. Coetzee Center for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide, Australia, 2017. Australia

This app offers an introduction to J.M. Coetzee's writing through the rich insights offered by the conversations, exhibitions, performances and screenings that took place during the 2014 Traverses: J.M. Coetzee in the World conference. It includes: a... Read More about "Traverses: J. M Coetzee in the World," directed by Professor Jennifer Rutherford, Director of The J. M. Coetzee Center for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide, Australia, 2017.