Chris Warnes

I teach postcolonial and related literatures in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and I’m a Fellow of St John’s College.

My research focuses on postcolonial literature, mostly from the anglophone world, but also from other parts of the world. I’m especially interested in magical realism and in literature from South Africa and from other parts of Africa.

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Publications

Warnes, C., & Anderson Sasser, K. (Eds.). (2020). Magical Realism and Literature. Cambridge University Press.
Warnes, C. (2012). Postcolonial Writing in South Africa. In A. Quayson (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (pp. 329–351). Cambridge University Press.
Warnes, C. (2011). Welcome to Msawawa: The post-apartheid township in Niq Mhlongo’s novels of deception. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47(5), 546–557.
Warnes, C. (2009). Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel: Between Faith and Irreverence. Palgrave Macmillan.
Warnes, C. (2009). Chronicles of Belief and Unbelief: Zakes Mda and the Question of Magical Realism in South African Literature. In D. Bell & J. Jacobs (Eds.), Ways of Writing: Critical Essays on Zakes Mda (pp. 73–90). University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
Warnes, C. (2005). Naturalizing the Supernatural: Faith, Irreverence and Magical Realism. Literature Compass, 2(1).

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Magical Realism and Literature

Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel: Between Faith and Irreverence