James started following the work of Caroline Herbert, Leeds Metropolitan University, School of Cultural Studies.
James added a website.
James started following the work of Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences.
Faculty Member, Media
Lecturer in Communication and Culture
About
My research has two main focuses: the relationship between environment and identity in the colonial and postcolonial literatures of southern Africa, and representations of multiculturalism in recent British film and fiction. This work has resulted in a monograph, Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa (Routledge, 2009), as well as articles that explore: gender and abjection in Zimbabwean fiction; migration and mobility in literary representations of Johannesburg; Ivan Vladislavić’s writings on the postcolonial city; the representation of the southern African ecosystem in Nadine Gordimer’s recent fiction; a number of contributions in the Oxford Companion to Black British History; the purgatory motif in Stephen Frears’s film Dirty Pretty Things; Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani and the marketing multiculturalism debate; identity in Britain after Thatcher and New Labour.
I am currently working toward a second monograph that will see these two research areas merge in what I hope will be a very productive fusion of postcolonial literature and reception theory: Postcolonial narrative and the idea of community.
