Publications

Selected publications by LITRA members relevant to the centre's main concerns, listed by subject area and by publication date in reverse chronological order (since 2000). If you are interested in the publications of a particular author, you can also find these listed on his or her personal page: click on the appropriate link under "Staff" in the right-hand column.

THE HOLOCAUST IN JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE

  • Lievens, Bart. “Jewish-American Fiction on the Border: Culture Confrontations and Double Consciousness in the Work of Pearl Abraham”. Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish-American Fiction. Edited by Derek P. Royal [forthcoming].
  • Maes, Leen. “Fictional Meditations on Testimony: Jewish American Women Representing the Holocaust.” Performing Pasts, Inventing Selves: History and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Writing. Ed. Philippe Codde et al. [forthcoming]
  • Codde, Philippe.  “Everything Is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)”  Encyclopedia of Contemporary Fiction. Ed. Geoffrey Hamilton. [forthcoming]
  • Codde, Philippe. The Jewish American Novel. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue UP, 2007.
  • Codde, Philippe. "Burned by the History of the Twentieth Century: Trauma and Narrative Containment in Daniel Stern's Holocaust Novels." Partial Answers 5.1 (Jan. 2007), 51-75. Also published in A Book for Daniel Stern. Ed. Pamela Diamond and Stanley Moss. New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 2006, 109-137.
  • Codde, Philippe. “An Early Holocaust Novel Rediscovered: The Gray Zone in Daniel Stern’s Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die." Yiddish (Modern Jewish Studies), 14.4 (2006), 34-53.
  • Lievens, Bart. “Tracing the Roots of Creation: The Incorporation of Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism in Myla Goldberg’s Bee Season and Pearl Abraham’s The Seventh Beggar” in Studies in American Jewish Literature. Volume 25 (2006), pp. 85-100.
  • Codde, Philippe. “'No Enemy, No Betrayer, No Bearded Torturer': The Death of God, the Holocaust, and Existentialism in Wallant’s The Human Season." English Language Notes, 43:1 (2005), 63-76.
  • Codde, Philippe. “The Holocaust and Postwar Jewish Identity in Daniel Stern’s Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die.” Studies in American Fiction, 33:2 (2005), 165-81.
  • Codde, Philippe. “Bars to Freedom—Freedom Behind Bars: Spinozism and Sartrean Existentialism in The Fixer.” Yiddish (Modern Jewish Studies) (Special Issue: The Art of Bernard Malamud), 13:1, 2002, 62-101.
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LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF APOCALYPSE

  • Fabry, Geneviève, Ilse Logie, and Pablo Decock, eds. Los imaginarios apocalípticos en la literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea. Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas. Vol. 32. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010.
  • Theeten, Griet. "Une petite apocalypse féerique: la transposition de l’horreur dans Féerie pour une autre fois de Louis-Ferdinand Céline", in: La littérature et l’horreur: XIXe–XXe siècles. Actes du colloque du 14-15 juin 2007, Genève, Droz, 2008 (forthcoming).
  • Vervaeck, Bart. ‘Het einde in zicht. Het postmodernisme en de apocalyps.’ In: Jelle Stegeman (red.), Neerlandici aan het woord. Handelingen van de bijeenkomst van universitaire docenten  Nederlands in het Duitse taalgebied. Zürich 17-19 maart 2006. Münster, Agenda, 2007, pp. 101-119.
  • Logie, Ilse. “La transgresión de Felipillo. Sobre 'El Intérprete' de Juan José Saer” en Federico García Lorca et Caetera. Estudios sobre las literaturas hispánicas en honor de Christian de Paepe, Nicole Delbecque, Nadia Lie, Brigitte Adriaensen eds., Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2003, pp. 489-498.
  • Logie, Ilse. “Trauma y transferencia en Juan José Saer. Análisis de Cicatrices” en Milagros Ezquerro, El lugar de Juan José Saer, Université de Montpellier, 2002, pp. 187-201.
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POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE OF WITNESS

  • Craps, Stef. "Learning to Live with Ghosts: Postcolonial Haunting and Mid-Mourning in David Dabydeen's 'Turner' and Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts." Callaloo. 5,000 words. [forthcoming]
  • Craps, Stef. “‘Only Not beyond Love’: Testimony, Subalternity, and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan Boland.” Neophilologus: An International Journal of Modern and Mediaeval Language and Literature 94.1 (2010): 265-76.
  • Craps, Stef. Postcolonial Witnessing: The Trauma of Empire, the Empire of Trauma. Under contract with Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Buelens, Gert, and Dominiek Hoens. “‘Above and beneath Classification’: Bartleby, Life & Times of Michael K, and Syntagmatic Participation.” Accepted, Diacritics.
  • Craps, Stef, and Gert Buelens, eds. Postcolonial Trauma Novels. Spec. double issue of Studies in the Novel 40.1-2 (Spring-Summer 2008).
  • Craps, Stef, and Gert Buelens. "Introduction: Postcolonial Trauma Novels." Studies in the Novel 40.1-2 (Spring-Summer 2008): 1-12.
  • Craps, Stef. "Linking Legacies of Loss: Traumatic Histories and Cross-Cultural Empathy in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood." Studies in the Novel 40.1-2 (Spring-Summer 2008): 191-202.
  • Hoens, Dominiek, Sigi Jöttkandt, and Gert Buelens, eds. The Catastrophic Imperative: Subjectivity, Time and Memory in Contemporary Thought. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008.
  • Buelens, Gert. “Disaster, Citationality and the Limits of Responsibility in Coetzee’s Disgrace.” The Catastrophic Imperative: Subjectivity, Time and Memory in Contemporary Thought. Ed. Dominiek Hoens, Sigi Jöttkandt, and Gert Buelens. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008.
  • Craps, Stef. “J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and the Ethics of Testimony.” English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 88.1 (Feb. 2007): 59-66.
  • Logie, Ilse. “La verdad de los hechos: el testimonialismo de Rigoberta Menchú” en Latinoamérica (anuario del Centro Coordinador y Difusor de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la UNAM), México, n°35, 2003, pp. 235-245.
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DISCURSIVE RESPONSES TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION

  • Craps, Stef. "Wor(l)ds of Grief: Traumatic Memory and Literary Witnessing in Cross-Cultural Perspective." Textual Practice. 7,500 words. [forthcoming]
  • Verdoolaege, Annelies, Reconciliation Discourse: The Case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 2008. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Verdoolaege, Annelies, “The debate on truth and reconciliation: A survey of literature on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission”. In Discourse and Human Rights Violations, Ch. Anthonissen and J. Blommaert (eds.), 2007: pp. 13-32. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • Verdoolaege, Annelies, "Managing reconciliation at the human rights violations hearings of the South African TRC". In The Journal of Human Rights, 2006, 5/1: pp. 61-80.
  • Verdoolaege, Annelies, "The debate on truth and reconciliation: A survey of literature on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission". In The Journal of Language and Politics, 2006, 5/1: pp. 15-35.
  • Verdoolaege, Annelies, "Media representations of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and their commitment to reconciliation". In The Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2005, 17/2: pp. 181-199.
  • Verdoolaege, Annelies, "Het suggereren van verzoening tijdens de hoorzittingen van de Waarheids- en Verzoeningscommissie". In Afrika Focus, 2005, 18/1-2: pp. 73-94.
  • Verdoolaege, Annelies, and Paul Kerstens, "The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Belgian Lumumba Commission: A comparison", In Africa Today, 2004, 50/3: pp.75-92.
  • Verdoolaege, Annelies, "De Lumumba Commissie en de Zuid-Afrikaanse Waarheids- en Verzoeningscommissie: Een vergelijking". In Samenleving en Politiek, 2003, 10/1: pp. 32-40.
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THE REPRESENTATION OF 9/11 IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CULTURE

  • Uytterschout, Sien, and Kristiaan Versluys. "Mourning and Melancholy in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." Orbis Litterarum 63.3 (2008): 216-36.
  • Uytterschout, Sien. "Visualised Incomprehensibility of Trauma in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 51.1 (2008): 61-74.
  • Codde, Philippe. “Philomela Revisited: Traumatic Iconicity in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” Studies in American Fiction, Fall 2007.
  • Craps, Stef. "Conjuring Trauma: The Naudet Brothers' 9/11 Documentary." Canadian Review of American Studies 37.2 (2007): 183-204.
  • Versluys, Kristiaan, “9/11 as a European Event: The Novels,” European Review 15 (2007), pp. 65-79.
  • Saal, Ilka. “’The Only Possible Heroes of our Time’: Imagining Terrorism in Postmodern Art.” In America and the Orient, ed. Heike Schäfer. Heidelberg: Winter 2006, 249-265.
  • Versluys, Kristiaan, “Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers: 9/11 and the Representation of Trauma,” Modern Fiction Studies 52, No. 4 (2006), pp. 980-1004.
  • Versluys, Kristiaan, “9/11 as the End of Irony: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World,” CinematoGraphies: Fictional Strategies and Visual Discourses in 1990s New York City, eds. Günter Lenz, Dorothea Löbbermann, and Karl-Heinz Magister (Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag, 2006), pp. 45-73.
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THE LITERATURES OF WAR

  • Theeten, Griet. "Dans la guerre. Alice Ferney et ses prédécesseurs: Henri Barbusse, Roland Dorgelès et Jean Giono", Ecritures contemporaines, Paris, Minard, coll. Lettres modernes (forthcoming).
  • Theeten, Griet. "Les lieux de mémoire de la Grande Guerre chez Xavier Hanotte: vers la construction de l’identité", Textyles. Revue des lettres belges de langue Française, 32 (forthcoming).
  • T'Sjoen, Yves. ‘De bladen voor de poëzie. Geschiedenis van een poëziereeks (1937-1945)’, in Zacht Lawijd. Literair-historisch tijdschrift [in voorbereiding, 2009].
  • Saal, Ilka. “Making it Real: Theater in Times of Virtual Warfare” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 20.2 (Spring 2008): 65-86.
  • Schoentjes, Pierre. Fictions de la Grande Guerre, Paris, Garnier, 2008 (forthcoming).
  • Schoentjes, Pierre. «L’image des gaz dans la littérature de Grande Guerre», in: Mémoires et antimémoires littéraires du XXième siècle, M. Quaghebeur, A.-M. Laserra éd., Bruxelles, Labor, 2008 (forthcoming).
  • Verbrande schrijvers. Vlaamse literatuur en ‘collaboratie’ 1933-1953. L. de Vos, L. Stynen en Y. T’Sjoen (red.). Gent: Academia Press, 2008 [in voorbereiding].
  • Louis Paul Boon, De voorstad groeit. Ed. K. Humbeeck, B. Kennis, M. de Ridder, E. Bruinsma, A.M. Musschoot en Y. T’Sjoen. De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam/Antwerpen, 2007, 466 p. [Verzameld Werk, deel 1].
  • Macdonald K, ‘Greenmantle’, The Literary Encyclopedia, 24 August 2007, The Literary Dictionary Company, www.litencyc.com.
  • Macdonald K, ‘Writing The War: John Buchan’s lost journalism of the First World War’, The Times Literary Supplement, 10 August 2007.
  • Macdonald K, ‘John Buchan as a publisher’, in History of the Book in Scotland, Volume IV 1880-2000, eds Finkelstein D & McCleery A, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming (2007).
  • Macdonald K, ‘Translating propaganda: John Buchan’s writing during the First World War’, in Publishing in the First World War: Essays in book history, eds Hammond M & Towheed S, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 181-201.
  • Schoentjes, Pierre. La littérature de 14-18 en Belgique, H. Roland, P. Schoentjes éds, Textyles, 32, 33, Le Cri, 2007.
  • T'Sjoen, Yves. ‘Achter de trommels. Het Afrikaner nationalisme als bouwsteen voor het ideologische discours van de Vlaamse Beweging (ca. 1875-1921)’, in Werkwinkel. Journal of Low Countries and South African Studies/Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse en Zuid-Afrikaanse Studies/Tydskrif vir Nederlandse en Suid-Afrikaanse Studies, vol.2 (Poznań, 2007), p.51-76.
  • Louis Paul Boon, De atoombom en het mannetje met den bolhoed/Mijn kleine oorlog. Ed. K. Humbeeck, B. Kennis, M. de Ridder, E. Bruinsma, A.M. Musschoot en Y. T’Sjoen. De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam/Antwerpen, 2006, 172 p. [Verzameld Werk, deel 4].
  • Macdonald, K,  ‘John Buchan’, in The Oxford Encyclopaedia of British Literature, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 301-303.
  • Schoentjes, Pierre, éd. Max Deauville, La boue des Flandres et autres récits de la Grande Guerre, Lecture de Pierre Schoentjes, Bruxelles, Labor, 2006. («Ecrire la guerre», p. 331-363].
  • Craps, Stef. Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation. Brighton/Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. ISBN: 1-84519-004-1. 230 pp.
  • Hugues C. Pernath, Gedichten. Ed. J. Gerits, M. Smeyers (CTB) en Y. T’Sjoen, nawoord: J. Gerits. Lannoo/Atlas, Tielt/Amsterdam, 2005, 581 p.
  • Schoentjes, Pierre. «La Grande Guerre de Max Deauville: «En rire ou en pleurer»?», in: La Belgique avant la Belgique, L. Brognez éd., 28, 2005, p. 72-82.
  • Schoentjes, Pierre. «Mythe et ironie. L’image de la Grande Guerre en Sainte Farce; avec un appendice: «L’ironie des choses» de Hugo von Hofmannsthal», in: Mythe et création. Théorie, figures, E. Faivre d’Arcier, J.-P. Madou, L. van Eynde éd., Bruxelles, PUSL, 2005, p. 157-182.
  • Schoentjes, Pierre. «Samba Diouf et les siens. L'image littéraire de l'exil des troupes coloniales pendant la Première Guerre mondiale», in: Exils imaginaires et exils réels, A. Mabrou éd., El Jadida, P.U. Doukkali, 2004, p. 211-236.
  • Craps, Stef. "'As If History Could Be Circumvented': Undying Memories in Graham Swift's The Sweet Shop Owner." The AnaChronisT (2003): 197-222.
  • Craps, Stef. "Cathartic Fables, Fabled Catharses: Photography, Fiction and Ethics in Graham Swift's Out of this World." EJES: European Journal of English Studies 7.3 (2003): 293-309.
  • Schoentjes, Pierre, éd. Roland Dorgelès, Houten kruisen, Amsterdam, Arbeiderspers, <Oorlogsdomein>, 2003. [Afterword «Roland Dorgelès, Les croix de bois», p. 329-339.]
  • Louis Paul Boon, Mijn kleine oorlog. Ed. K. Humbeeck, D. de Geest, A.M. Musschoot, Y. T’Sjoen, E. Bruinsma en B. Kennis. Querido, Amsterdam, 2002, 495 p.
  • Vervaeck, Bart. ‘Het lied van het lijden: over Louis Ferron.’ In: Harry Bekkering & Jos Joosten (red.), Jan Campert-prijzen 2001. Nijmegen, Vantilt, 2001, pp. 7-25.
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LITERARY DEPICTIONS OF HELL

  • Vervaeck, Bart. Literaire hellevaarten. Van klassiek naar postmodern. Nijmegen, Vantilt, 2006.
  • Vervaeck, Bart. ‘Het verdriet van de wereld: “Zwerm” van Peter Verhelst.’ Ons Erfdeel, 49, 1, 2006, pp. 57-66.
  • Vervaeck, Bart. ‘Terreur en geweld postmodern verteld: de zaak Jongstra en Verhelst.’ Dietsche Warande & Belfort, 149, 6, 2004, pp. 818-831.
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