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Art and Angela Carter (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Art and Angela Carter. In . M. Mulvey-Roberts, & F. Robinson (Eds.), Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter (36-39). Sansom & Company

Selected loan artwork (2016)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016). Selected loan artwork. In M. Mulvey-Roberts, & F. Robinson (Eds.), Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter (40-65). Bristol: Sansom & Company

M'Fam goes home: African soldiers in the Gabon campaign of 1940 (2016)
Book Chapter
Reeves, M. (2016). M'Fam goes home: African soldiers in the Gabon campaign of 1940. In Dissent, Protest and Dispute in Africa (91-113). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315413099-13

Introduction Over three days in October 1940, Marcel M’Fam, a thirty-three-year-old Gabonese first-class guard in the French colonial army, decided to go home and spend time with his wife rather than return to his post. His desertion, along with that... Read More about M'Fam goes home: African soldiers in the Gabon campaign of 1940.

Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard (2016)
Journal Article
Sivyer, C. (2016). Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard. Word and Text - A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, VI, 73-91

This article will argue that J. G. Ballard’s Concrete Island can be productively read as a narrative that engages some of the central ideas of posthumanism and that from this reading one can then re read its source text, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Cruso... Read More about Concrete and desert islands: Proto-posthuman crusoes in Daniel Defoe and J. G. Ballard.

Teaching decolonization beyond the nation: The case of West Africa (2016)
Journal Article
Reeves, M. (2016). Teaching decolonization beyond the nation: The case of West Africa. World History Connected, 13(2),

How should we teach the history of decolonization, especially in a wide-ranging survey course? Debate has typically raged over whether we should emphasize the actions of imperial governments over independence movements, and vice versa. However, yet... Read More about Teaching decolonization beyond the nation: The case of West Africa.