Dirk van Rens

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My dissertation, supervised by Prof Jopi Nyman and Dr Anna-Leena Toivanen, centres on the way contemporary Afro-Atlantic fiction negotiates the traumas of slavery and its legacies.

I also teach the MA-level course Trauma in Literature, which I set up in 2023-24.

Keywords

Afro-Atlantic literature anglophone literature memory postcolonial studies postmodern literature trauma studies

Publications

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“When He Comes, He Will Be Like an Englishman”: Space, Spy Fiction, and Englishness in Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight
van Rens, Dirk. 2024. Critique: studies in contemporary fiction. [Epub ahead of print 8 Dec 2024]: 1-15 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research
“This Ain’t the Way It’s S’posed to Be”: Negotiating Trauma Through Postmemory and Implication in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
van Rens, Dirk. 2023. English studies. 104: 766-788 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

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“When He Comes, He Will Be Like an Englishman”: Space, Spy Fiction, and Englishness in Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight

“This Ain’t the Way It’s S’posed to Be”: Negotiating Trauma Through Postmemory and Implication in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing