Dr Mpalive-Hangson Msiska
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Mpalive has previously studied in Malawi, Canada, Germany and Scotland and has taught at the Universities of Malawi, Stirling and Bath Spa.
External responsibilities include being examiner or joint-supervisor of PhD theses, BA and MA Programmes at other Universities in Britain and abroad. He is a member of the Wole Soyinka Society, The Royal African Society and the Association of the African Studies in the UK (ASAUK) and a Board Member of The Canon Collins Trust, dedicated to sourcing scholarships to enable qualified students from Southern Africa undertake higher education either in Africa or the United Kingdom.
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Dr Msiska would welcome M.Phil/PhD applicants wishing to work on topics in the areas of Post-Colonial Literature and/or Cultural Studies generally as well as on Literary and Popular Cultures of Africa.
He is currently supervising PhD work on:
- Goan Diasporic Identities
- African Women’s Writing
- Identity in Arab Diasporic Writing
- Ousmane Sembène and Colonial and Neo-Colonial Cultural Hegemony in Senegal
- The Poetics of Yukio Mishima
You can see a full list of the Department's current students' research projects here.Teaching
Teaching modules
- Postcolonialism: In Theory (AREN188S7)
- Transcultural Encounters: Literature, Empire, Ethnicity (AREN260S5)
- The Novel: Writing the Modern World (ENHU009S5)
- Post-War to Contemporary (ENHU050S7)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson (2018) Colonialism, trauma and affect: Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God as Oduche’s Return. Research in African Literatures 49 (4), pp. 46-66. ISSN 0034-5210.
- Msiska, Mpalive Hangson (2017) Kujoni: South Africa in Malawi’s national imaginary. Journal of Southern African Studies 43 (5), pp. 1011-1029. ISSN 0305-7070.
- Msiska, Mpalive Hangson (2017) Rethinking the future of humanities in Africa and the question of epistemological agency. Journal of Humanities, University of Malawi 25 (1), pp. 5-30. ISSN 1016-0728.
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson (2014) Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria: Chinua Achebe’s quest for a country. Journal of Genocide Research 16 (2-3), pp. 401-419. ISSN 1462-3528.
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson (2009) Things fall apart: a resource for cultural theory. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 11 (2), pp. 171-175. ISSN 1369-801X.
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson (2009) Detecting globalisation, modernity and gender subjectivity in David Maillu's Benni Kamba 009 in Operation DXT. Journal of East African Studies 3 (1), pp. 132-152. ISSN 1753-1055.
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson (2009) Sam Selvon's, "The Lonely Londoners" and the structure of black metropolitan life. African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 2 (1), pp. 5-27. ISSN I752-8631.
Book
- Msiska, Mpalive Hangson and Whittaker, David (2008) Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart': a Routledge study guide. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415344562.
- Msiska, Mpalive Hangson (2007) Post-colonial identity in Wole Soyinka. Cross/Cultures. 93, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. ISBN 9789004358126.
- Msiska, Mpalive Hangson (1998) Wole Soyinka. Plymouth, UK: Northcote Press. ISBN 9788126913237.
- Msiska, Mpalive Hangson and Hyland, P., eds. (1997) Writing and Africa. London, UK: Longman. ISBN 9780582214187.
- Roscoe, A.A. and Msiska, Mpalive Hangson (1992) The quiet chameleon: modern poetry from central Africa. New Perspectives on African Literature. Oxford, UK: Hans Zell Publishers. ISBN 9780905450520.
Book Section
- Msiska, Mpalive Hangson (2020) Wide-angled modernities and alternative metropolitan imaginaries. In: Nasta, S. and Stein, M. (eds.) The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107195448. (In Press)
- Msiska, Mpalive Hangson (2019) Divine ways of cognition: the burden of the poet-seer in Soyinka's Idanre. In: Oni, D. and Adigun, B. (eds.) The Soyinka Impulse. Ibadan, Nigeria: Bookcraft. pp. 238-255. ISBN 9789785602296.
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson (2017) Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria: Chinua Achebe’s quest for a country. In: Moses, D. and Haarten, L. (eds.) Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide: the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967–1970. Routledge Studies in Modern History series. London, UK and New York, U.S.: Routledge. ISBN 9780415347587.
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson (2016) The novel and decolonization in Africa. In: Gikandi, S. (ed.) The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950. The Oxford History of the Novel in English. London, UK and New York, U.S.: Oxford University Press. pp. 37-55. ISBN 9780199765096.
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson (2013) Cultural studies, power and the idea of the hegemonic in Wole Soyinka's works. In: Lindfors, B. and Davis, G.V. (eds.) African Literatures and Beyond: A Florilegium. Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. pp. 1-28. ISBN 9789042037380.
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson (2012) Genre: fidelity and transgression in the postcolonial African novel. In: Goebel, W. and Schabio, S. (eds.) Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genre. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures. London, UK: Routledge. pp. 77-91. ISBN 9780415539609.
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson (2010) Post-colonial theory. In: Irele, F.A. and Jeyifo, B. (eds.) Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Thought. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195334739.
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson (2010) Wilson Harris. In: Irele, F.A. and Jeyifo, B. (eds.) Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Thought. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195334739.
- Msiska, Mpalive-Hangson (2009) Remembering Africa: Africa as the sign of the transnational in black-British writing. In: Göbel, W. and Schabio, S. (eds.) Locating Transnational Ideals. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures. London, UK: Routledge. pp. 173-188. ISBN 9780415871365.