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Neil ten Kortenaar

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of English

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  • Professor Emeritus/Emerita
    University 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).

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DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

LANGUAGES

  • French
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Spanish - Latin American
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Dutch; Flemish
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

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