Reassessing Generic Boundaries in South African Literatures. Introduction

Reassessing Generic Boundaries in South African Literatures. Introduction

“The law of genre [is] a principle of contamination, a law of impurity, a parasitical economy.” (Derrida 2006, 256)The present issue can be read as a belated tribute to Professor Jean Sévry (1932-2012), who supervised Gilles Teulié’s PhD thesis and sat on Mélanie Joseph-Vilain’s PhD committee. Jean...

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Autor principal: Joseph-Vilain, Mélanie
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Publicado em: Postcolonial Literatures and Arts 2025
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Reassessing Generic Boundaries in South African Literatures. Introduction
description “The law of genre [is] a principle of contamination, a law of impurity, a parasitical economy.” (Derrida 2006, 256)The present issue can be read as a belated tribute to Professor Jean Sévry (1932-2012), who supervised Gilles Teulié’s PhD thesis and sat on Mélanie Joseph-Vilain’s PhD committee. Jean Sévry can be considered as a pioneer of postcolonial studies in French universities. He taught at Montpellier Paul-Valéry University during his whole career. He had a passion for South Africa whic...
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