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DAVID JEFFERESS

Books

Postcolonial Resistance: Culture, Liberation, and Transformation . University of Toronto Press, 2008.

Globalizing Afghanistan : Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation-Building. Co-Edited with Zubeda Jalalzai. Duke University Press (Forthcoming)

Articles and Chapters

"To be good (again): The Kite Runner as allegory of global ethics." Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 45:4 (December 2009): 389 - 400. 

“Responsibility, Nostalgia, and the Mythology of Canada as a Peacekeeper.” University of Toronto Quarterly 78:2 (2009): 709-727. 


"The Limits of Dissent: Arundhati Roy and the Struggle Against the Narmada Dams". Globalizing Dissent: Essays on Arundhati Roy. Routledge Press, 2009: 157-179.


"Global Citizenship and the Cultural Politics of Benevolence." Critical Literacy: Theories    and Practices. 2:1 (2008): 27-36. Available online: http://www.criticalliteracyjournal.org/ "

"Introduction: The Politics of Postcoloniality".  With Julie McGonegal and Sabine Milz.  Postcolonial Text. Special Issue: “The Politics of Postcoloniality.” 2.1 (2005) http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/index  

" Whose story is it, anyway? Or… Power and Difference in The Book of Jessica: Implications for Theories of Collaboration".  English Studies in Canada . 29:3-4 (September/December 2003): 220-241.

" The Borders of Compassion: The Canadian Imaginary and Its External Others".  International Journal of Canadian Studies 25 (Spring 2002): 43-67.  [Special Issue: “Post-Canada.”]

" For Sale – Peace of Mind: (Neo)Colonial Discourse and the Commodification of Third World Poverty in World Vision’s ‘Telethons.”  Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies 16:1 (2002): 1-21.

" Neither Seen Nor Heard: The Idea of the ‘Child’ as Impediment to the Rights of Children". Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 7 (Spring 2002): 75-97.

" What’s My Name? Or, Developing in Linga". Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 6:1-2 (Fall 2001). Special Issue: “Growing Up Elsewhere.” Available online: http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v6i1-2/con61.htm  

" Violence, Culture and Politics: A Reading of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart". Peace Review 13:2 (June 2001):195-200.

" A Pacific (Re) Reading of Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage".  Essays on Canadian Writing 72 (Winter 2000): 138-157.

" Saying Change in Malawi : Resistance and the Voices of Jack Mapanje and Lucius Banda".  ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. 31:3 (July 2000): 105-124.   

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