Neil ten KortenaarProfile page
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of English
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- Professor Emeritus/EmeritaUniversity of Toronto Scarborough, Department of English
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BIO
Neil ten Kortenaar teaches African, Caribbean, and South Asian literature. He has published a book on Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (McGill-Queen's 2004), another on Images of Reading and Writing in African and Caribbean literature (Cambridge 2011), and another called Debt Law Realism: Nigerian Novelists Imagine the State at Independence (2021). His current research focuses on imagining state formation in postcolonial literature from India, Africa, and the Americas. This is a longstanding interest that has informed many publications, including an article on "Fictive States and the State of Fiction in Africa" in Comparative Literature (2000) and "Oedipus, Ogbanje, and the Sons of Independence" in Research in African Literatures (2007). He wrote the chapter on "Multiculturalism and Globalization" for The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature (2009).
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online
DEGREES
- PhDUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
LANGUAGES
- FrenchCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- Spanish - Latin AmericanCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- Dutch; FlemishCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
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