Dan Wylie Academic Publications
1994 “Henry Rider Haggard”, “South African Colonial Mythology”, in E D Benson et al, eds. Enyclopaedia of Postcolonial Literatures (London, Routledge), vol.1, 620-1, 839-42.
1995 “Language and Assassination: Cultural negations in white writers’ portrayal of Shaka”, in C Hamilton ed. The ‘Mfecane’ Aftermath (Wits University Press), 71-103.
1996 The Road Out (poems; Snailpress)
(Various of these poems have now been anthologised, including in M Chapman, The New Century of South African Poetry (Johannesburg, 2002); PR Anderson, In the Country of the Heart: Love poems from South Africa (Cape Town, 2004), F Chipasula, Bending the Bow (Carbondale, USA, 2007).)
1998 “Taking Resentment for Wisdom: A Posthumous Conversation between Dambudzo Marechera, N H Brettell and George Grosz”, in A J Chennells and Flora Veit-Wild, eds, Dambudzo Marechera, Africa World Press, Lawrenceville NJ. 315-331.
2000 “Animals, Arcadia, Allegory, &c”, in Ivan Vladislavic, ed. T’kama-Adamastor:Inventions of Africa in a South African Painting. Wits UP. 153-161.
“Chenjerai Hove”, “N H Brettell”, “Henry Rider Haggard”, in Douglas Killam and Ruth Rowe, eds, The Companion to African Literatures in English (James Currey, London)
2001 Introduction to John Eppel, Selected Poems 1965-1995 (Childline, Bulawayo), 5-8.
“Elephants and the Ethics of Ecological Criticism: A case study in recent South African fiction”. In Sue Kossew and Dianne Schwerdt, eds, Re-Imagining Africa: New Critical Perspectives. (Nova Science, New York). 175-193.
2002 “‘Dead Leaves’: Reflections on writing a memoir of the Rhodesian conflict.” In Chris van der Merwe and Rolf Wolfswinkel, eds. Telling Wounds: Narrative, Trauma & Memory; working through the SA armed conflicts of the 20th century. Van Schaik/UCT. 190-194.
2005 “‘Mind has mountains’: Poetry and ecology in Eastern Zimbabwe”. In Versions of Zimbabwe, ed Ranka Primorac and Robert Muponde, James Currey: London.
2006 “White myths of Shaka”. In Benedict Carton, John Laband and Jabulani Sithole, eds. Zulu Identities: Being Zulu, past and present. (Univerity of KwaZulu-Natal Press: Pietermaritzburg.)
2011 “Literature and ecology in southern Africa” (chapter). In Michael Chapman, M Lenta, eds. SA Lit: Beyond 2000. UKZN Press: Pietermaritzburg. 353-371.
2012 “Douglas Livingstone’s Poetry and the (Im)possibility of the Bioregion”. In The Bioregional Imagination. Ed. Cheryll Glotfelty and Karla Armbruster. (University of Georgia Press.) 312-328.
(Ed) with Craig Mackenzie. No Other World: Essays in the Life-Work of Don Maclennan. (PrintMatters: Cape Town.) Incl. Dan Wylie, “Introduction” and “Don Maclennan and the Prehistoric”. 219-233.
2019 “Representing Elephants”, in The Last of the Elephants (ed Don Pinnock).
1991 “Who’s Afraid of Shaka Zulu?”, Southern African Review of Books. 4/3, 15-17.
“Autobiography as Alibi: Nathaniel Isaacs’ Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa (1836)”. Current Writing 3, 71-90.
“Language Thieves: English-Language Strategies in two Zimbabwean novellas”, English in Africa 18/2, 39-62.
1992 “Textual Incest: Nathaniel Isaacs and the Development of the Shaka Myth”, History in Africa 19, 411-33.
1993 “A Dangerous Admiration: E A Ritter’s Shaka Zulu”, Southern African Historical Journal 28, 98-118.
Review article, “Dorian Haarhoff’s The Wild South-West”, English in Africa 20/2, 107-111.
1994 “Shaka and the modern Zulu State”, History Today 44/5, 8-11.
“An Icon in the Whirlpool”, New Contrast 22/4, 67-77.
1995 “Shaka and the Myths of Paradise”, English in Africa 22/1, 19-47.
“The Selves in the Other: The Shaka Poems of D J Darlow and F T Prince”, Current Writing 7/1, 70-87.
“‘Proprietor of Natal’: Henry Francis Fynn and the Mythography of Shaka”, History in Africa 22, 409-437.
1997 “Violently Representing Shaka”, Mots Pluriels 1/4, 1-6.
1998 “The Wilderness in the Blood”, English Academy Review 14. 176-191
“Living Poetry: An experience of pedagogical discovery”. English Studies in Africa 14/1. 89-106.
1999 “Broken Bottles Beneath the Lawn”, English Academy Review 15, 113-8.
2001 “Elephants and Compassion: Ecological criticism and South African hunting literature”. English in Africa. 28(2). 79-100.
2002 “‘Speaking Crystals’: The Poetry of Lionel Abrahams and South African Liberalism”. African Literatures Today 23, 101-9.
“The Anthropomorphic Ethic: Fiction and the Animal Mind in Virginia Woolf’s Flush and Barbara Gowdy’s The White Bone.” ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment) 9.2, 115-132.
2003 “Clutching a handful of granulated glass”. Review essay. Scrutiny2 8/1, 62-69.
“Honesty and death”. Review essay. English Academy Review 17, 120-128.
“‘Hollow land of emptiness’: repression and ecology in some early Rhodesian poetry.” English Academy Review, 19:1-11.
2005 Review. Jeff Opland, The Dassie and the Hunter. English in Africa 32/2, 247-51.
Review essay. Ivan Vladislavic, The Exploded View. Scrutiny2 10/1, 101-107.
2006 ‘Why Write a Poem about Elephants?’ Mosaic 39/4, 27-46.
Introduction and guest editor. Current Writing 18/1 (Literature & Ecology special issue)
2007 “Imagined corners: Ec(o)centrism in some Eastern Cape poetry.” Scrutiny2 12/1, 30-45.
‘//Kabbo’s Challenge: Transculturation and the question of a South African ecocriticism’. Journal of Literary Studies. 23/3, 252-270.
‘“Muscled Presence”: Douglas Livingstone’s poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Snake”’. (With Mariss Everitt). English in Africa 34/1, 133-154.
‘”Now strangers walk in that place”: Antjie Krog, modernity, and the making of //Kabbo’s story’. Current Writing 19/2, 49-71. Reprinted in Judith Lutge Coullie and Andries Visagie, eds. Antjie Krog: An ethics of body and otherness. UKZN Press 2014:215-240.
‘”Unconscious nobility”: The animal poetry of Harold Farmer’. English in Africa 34/2, 79-92.
2008 “’Long and Wandering Forest’: Sidney Clouts, geophilosophy and trees.’ Alternation 14/2, 72-96
Review: Helen Tiffin, Five Emus to the King of Siam. English in Africa, 35/1, 191-4..
‘The Schizophrenias of Truth-Telling in Contemporary Zimbabwe’. English Studies in Africa. 50(2). 151-170.
2009 “Lines of Flight: Sydney Clouts’s birds”. Alternation. 16/2. 126-151.
2006 ‘Why Write a Poem about Elephants?’ Mosaic 39/4, 27-46.
Review article: “The Death of the Animal in South African History.” Historia 55/2, 283-291.
2011 “Not Quite a Refutation: A response to David McDermott Hughes’ Whiteness in Zimbabwe”. Safundi 13/1-2. 181-194.
2013 “Estuary: Brian Walter’s Swartkops poems”. AlterNation Special edition No.6. 157-74.
2014 “Mountainous Freedom” The awkward romance of two Capetonian poets”. English in Africa 41/1. 75-90.
“Touching Trunks: Elephants, ecology and compassion in three Southern African teen
novels”. Journal of Literary Studies. 30/4. 25-45.
“Feral Whispering: Conservation, community and the reach of the literary.” English in Africa: 41/3. 119-140.
2016 “Anne Sexton’s environmental animality”. Animal Studies Journal.
2019 “Aunty Marsha, they killed the dogs.” In Dogs in Southern African Literature. Tydskrif van Letterkunde/Van Schaik.. Plus Introduction, ed with Joan-Mari Barendse.
1991 “Utilising Isaacs in the Mythography of Shaka”. Natal History Workshop, Pietermaritzburg.
1993 “Language and Assassination: The Portrayal of Shaka”. “The ‘Mfecane’ Aftermath” colloquium. Wits University.
1995 “A T Bryant’s ‘Inexplicable swarms’”. South African Historical Society Conference. Grahamstown.
1996 “Imperial Children and the Child-native: The psychology of the portrayal of Shaka in white children’s literature”. “Dickens, Children and Empire” international conference, Grahamstown.
1997 “Living Poetry: An experience of pedagogical discovery”. “Languages of Poetry” conference. Wits University.
1999 “Elephants and Compassion: ecological criticism and Southern African hunting literature”. M/MLA, Minneapolis.
“Elephants and the Ethics of Ecological Criticism: A case study in South African fiction.” African Studies Association of Australasia annual convention, Perth, Australia.
2001 “‘Close to Epiphanies’: The poetry of John Eppel and the natural world”. Centenary Colloquium on Zimbabwean Literature. Harare.
2002 “‘The feather stood quivering’: Oral tradition, metaphor and historiographical method: a case study in the history of Shaka.” International Society for Oral Literatures in Africa, Chambery, France.
2003 “Ec(o)centrism: Poetry and ecology in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.” New Directions in the Humanities Conference, Rhodes, Greece, 2-5 July.
“‘Foresters of Neutral Ground’? Poetry, history and ecology in the Eastern Cape”. Eastern Cape History Conference, East London, 26-29 August.
2004 “’Seahorn messiah’: Sidney Clouts’s natural ear.” The combined AUETSA-SAVAL-SAACLALS Conference, Durban, 5-7 July
“Mother”. Literature and Ecology Colloquium, Rhodes University, 3-5 Sept 2004.
2005 “Absence of Poets: The animal poetry of Harold Farmer.” Literature & Ecology Colloquium, Rhodes, 29 September..
2006 “Stealing Identities? Appropriations of //Kabbo’s oral testimonies, an ecocritical view.” Literature & Ecology Colloquium. Rhodes University, 7 October.
2007 “’Long and Wandering Forest’: Sydney Clouts, geophilosophy and trees.’ Literature & Ecology Colloquium, Mtunzini, 5-7 October.
2008 ‘”Lines of flight”: Sydney Clouts’s birds.’ Literature & Ecology Colloquium, Mtunzini, 3-5 October.
2009 “The little Bushman stood guard”: The San, poetic obsessions, and eco-pedagogy’. Literature & Ecology Colloquium. Goedgedacht, 4-6 October.
2009 “Minding Elephants and the Rhetorics of Destruction”. Minding Animals Conference. Newcastle, Australia. 24-20 July.
2010 “Don Maclennan and the prehistoric.” Don Maclennan Commemorative Colloquium. Rhodes University, 7-9 February. (Published in Wylie & Mackenzie, eds. No Other World” Essays on the Life-work of Don Maclennan, 2012).
2011 “Conservation, Compassion and the advent of the ‘elephant whisperer’”. ASLE Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. 21-26 June.
“Estuary: Brian Walter’s Swartkops poems”. Literature & Ecology Colloquium, Hermanus, 6-8 August.
2012 “Tusker talismans: Elephants and compassion in three Southern African teen novels”. Minding Animals Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, 3-6 July. Also presented at Animals Vulnerabilities colloquium, UWC, 2 November.
“In these mountains: The awkward romance of two Capetonian poets”. Literature & Ecology Colloquium, Nirox, Gauteng, 5-7 October.
2013 “Narrating whales in southern Africa”. Literature & Ecology Colloquium, Rhodes University, 1-3 September.
“Shaka: Teaching a history of uncertainties.” Invited speaker: South African History Teachers Association. Pietermaritzburg. 24 September.
2014 “Water, whiteness and the plights of Zimbabwe”. Literature & Ecology Colloquium, “Words on water”. Hartebeestepoort, 12-14 September.
2015 “Rhetorics of Hope and Dislocation: Some white fiction and land reform in Zimbabwe”. AUETSA Conference, Grahamstown, 13-15 July.
2016 “/Kabbo sings the animals”. Animal Studies Colloquium, UWC, 7 September.
2017 “Makana Rock”. Literature & Ecology Colloquium, Rhodes University, 1-3 October
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