Publications and communications of Daria Tunca

Theses and dissertations

Doctoral thesis

Tunca, D. (2008). Style beyond Borders: Language in Recent Nigerian Fiction [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/15897

Publications

Books

Written alone

Tunca, D. (2014). Stylistic Approaches to Nigerian Fiction. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137264411

Direction and/or edition of collective works (including proceedings of scientific meetings, special issues of journals)

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (Eds.). (2020). Illuminating Lives: The Biographical Impulse in Postcolonial Literatures. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 55 (3), 333-479.

Tunca, D., & Wilson, J. (Eds.). (2016). Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004337688

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (Eds.). (2015). What is Africa to me now? Research in African Literatures, 46 (4), 1-150.

Wilson, J., & Tunca, D. (Eds.). (2015). Postcolonial Thesholds: Gateways and Borders. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51 (1), 1-107.

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (Eds.). (2014). What is Africa to me now? Transition, 113, 1-101.

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (Eds.). (2012). Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Articles and book chapters

Articles in journals with peer reviewing

Tunca, D. (08 April 2020). 'Nobody disappears. People don't just disappear': Repetition and Negation as Dialogic Devices in Caryl Phillips's 'Northern Lights'. Journal of Literary Semantics, 49 (1), 1-25. doi:10.1515/jls-2020-2018

Tunca, D. (2018). The Danger of a Single Short Story: Reality, Fiction and Metafiction in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s "Jumping Monkey Hill". Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54 (1). doi:10.1080/17449855.2017.1419833

Tunca, D. (2018). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as Chinua Achebe's (Unruly) Literary Daughter: The Past, Present, and Future of "Adichebean" Criticism. Research in African Literatures, 49 (4), 107-126. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.49.4.08

Tunca, D. (July 2017). The Poetics of (In)visibility: A Stylistic Analysis of Caryl Phillips' Foreigners: Three English Lives. Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 48 (3-4), 159-186. doi:10.1353/ari.2017.0026

Tunca, D., & Ledent, B. (2015). The Power of a Singular Story: Narrating Africa and Its Diasporas. Research in African Literatures, 46 (4), 1-9. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.46.4.1

Wilson, J., & Tunca, D. (2015). Postcolonial Thresholds: Gateways and Borders. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51 (1), 1-6. doi:10.1080/17449855.2014.988434

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (2014). What is Africa to me now? The continent and its literary diasporas. Transition, 113, 1-10.

Tunca, D. (2013). The Confessions of a "Buddhist Catholic": Religion in the Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Research in African Literatures, 44 (3), 50-71. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.44.3.50

Tunca, D. (2009). Redressing the "Narrative Balance": Subjection and Subjectivity in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street. Afroeuropa: Journal of AfroEuropean Studies, 3 (1).

Tunca, D. (2009). Linguistic Counterpoint in Gbenga Agbenugba's Another Lonely Londoner. Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, 36, 195-211.

Tunca, D. (2009). Ideology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003). English Text Construction, 2 (1), 121-131. doi:10.1075/etc.2.1.07tun

Tunca, D. (2009). An Ambiguous "Freedom Song": Mind-Style in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. Postcolonial Text, 5 (1), 1-18.

Tunca, D. (2008). "'Nigeria is Bus is Stage': The Bus as Metaphor in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction". Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 30 (2), 35-48.

Tunca, D. (2006). Paying Attention to Language, Replicas and the Role of the Artist in Janet Frame's Living in the Maniototo. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 42 (1), 32-43. doi:10.1080/17449850600595640

Tunca, D. (2004). Ben Okri's The Landscapes Within and Dangerous Love: Vision and Revision. BELL. Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures, 2, 85-101.

Articles in journals without peer reviewing

Tunca, D. (2008). "Svetski Nigerijci": Nigerijski pisci u dijaspori u dvadeset prvom veku (Cvijanović, I., Trans.). Mostovi, 143-144, 5-15.

Book chapters

Romdhani, R., & Tunca, D. (2022). Introduction: Locating the Mutations of Colonial Violence in the Postcolonial World. In R. Romdhani & D. Tunca (Eds.), Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World (pp. 1_20). Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Tunca, D. (2022). Unscrambling the "Grammar of Violence": Sexual Assault and Emotional Vulnerability in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah. In R. Romdhani & D. Tunca (Eds.), Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World (pp. 59-78). New York, United States: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003110231-3

Ledent, B., O'Callaghan, E., & Tunca, D. (2018). "Madness is rampant on this island": Writing Altered States in Anglophone Caribbean Literature. In B. Ledent, E. O'Callaghan, ... D. Tunca (Eds.), Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature: On the Edge (pp. 1-17). New York, United States - New York: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98180-2_1

Tunca, D. (2017). Intersections on the "Map of Art": Metaphor in Ben Okri's Dangerous Love and Wilson Harris's The Mask of the Beggar. In G. Collier, G. V. Davis, M. Delrez, ... B. Ledent (Eds.), The Cross-Cultural Legacy: Critical and Creative Writings in Memory of Hena Maes-Jelinek (pp. 81-95). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004338081_013

Tunca, D., & Wilson, J. (2016). Gateways and Walls, or the Power and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Metaphors. In J. Wilson & D. Tunca (Eds.), Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction (pp. 9-18). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004337688_002

Tunca, D. (2013). "We die only once, and for such a long time": Approaching Trauma through Translocation in Chris Abani's Song for Night. In M. Munkelt, M. Schmitz, M. Stein, ... S. Stroh (Eds.), Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking (pp. 127-143). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. doi:10.1163/9789401209014_009

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (2012). Introduction. In B. Ledent & D. Tunca (Eds.), Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life (pp. 11-21). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Tunca, D. (2012). Towards a Stylistic Model for Analysing Anglophone African Literatures: Preliminary Epistemological Considerations and a Case Study. In J. K. S. Makokha, O. J. Obiero, ... R. West-Pavlov (Eds.), Style in African Literature: Essays on Literary Stylistics and Narrative Styles (pp. 31-57). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Tunca, D. (2012). Away from a Definition of African Literature(s). In P. Cuder-Domínguez & B. Ledent (Eds.), New Perspectives on the Black Atlantic: Definitions, Readings, Practices, Dialogues (pp. 105-124). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Tunca, D. (2012). Appropriating Achebe: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and "The Headstrong Historian". In P. Nicklas & O. Lindner (Eds.), Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation: Literature, Film, and the Arts (pp. 230-250). Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter.

Tunca, D. (2010). Of French Fries and Cookies: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Diasporic Short Fiction. In K. Gyssels & B. Ledent (Eds.), Présence africaine en Europe et au-delà / African Presence in Europe and Beyond (pp. 291-309). Paris, France: L'Harmattan.

Contributions to encyclopedias and dictionaries

Tunca, D. (2011). Okri, Ben (1959 - ). In H. L. Gates & E. K. Akyeampong (Eds.), Dictionary of African Biography (vol. 5: Oding-Teres) (pp. 23-25). New York, United States - New York: Oxford University Press.

Tunca, D. (2011). Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi (1977 - ). In H. L. Gates & E. K. Akyeampong (Eds.), Dictionary of African Biography (vol. 1: Abach-Brand) (pp. 94-95). New York, United States - New York: Oxford University Press.

Book reviews

Tunca, D. (2021). Review of Afropolitan Literature as World Literature, ed. by James Hodapp. Recherche littéraire / Literary Research, 37, 331-335.

Tunca, D. (2019). Review of Fighting Words: Fifteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World, ed. by Dominic Davies, Erica Lombard, and Benjamin Mountford. Recherche Littéraire, 35, 263-267.

Tunca, D. (2018). Review of Kai Mikkonen's Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction. Recherche Littéraire, (34), 149-153.

Tunca, D. (2011). Review of Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame, ed. by Jan Cronin & Simone Drichel. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47 (3), 362-363.

Tunca, D. (2010). Annotation of Patrick West's "Theoretical Allegory / Allegorical Theory: (Post-)Colonial Spatializations in Janet Frame's The Carpathians and Julia Kristeva's The Old Man and the Wolves". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. doi:10.1080/ABES.20090414.31792

Tunca, D. (2010). Annotation of David Farrier's "'The other is the neighbour': The Limits of Dignity in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. doi:10.1080/ABES.20090123.30758

Tunca, D. (2010). Annotation of Madelaine Hron's "Ora na-azu nwa: The Figure of the Child in Third-Generation Nigerian Novels". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. doi:10.1080/ABES.20081111.29944

Tunca, D. (2010). Annotation of Antony Johae's "Wole Soyinka's 'Hamlet': The Rotten State of Denmark Revisited". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. doi:10.1080/ABES.20081104.29853

Tunca, D. (2010). Annotation of Valérie Baisnée's "To Ibiza: Separation and Recreation in Janet Frame's Island Narrative". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Tunca, D. (2010). Annotation of Obi Nwakanma's "Metonymic Eruptions: Igbo Novelists, the Narrative of the Nation, and New Developments in the Contemporary Nigerian Novel". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Tunca, D. (2010). Annotation of Emmanuel Chukuwudi Eze's "Language and Time in Postcolonial Experience". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Tunca, D. (2009). Annotation of Lily G.N. Mabura's "Breaking Gods: An African Postcolonial Gothic Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Tunca, D. (2009). Annotation of Esther de Bruijn's "Coming to Terms with New Ageist Contamination: Cosmopolitanism in Ben Okri's The Famished Road". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. doi:10.1080/ABES.20081104.29859

Tunca, D. (2009). Annotation of Bill Ashcroft's Caliban's Voice: The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures. Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. doi:10.1080/ABES.20090106.30431

Tunca, D. (2009). Annotation of Lokangaka Losambe's "Death, Power and Cultural Translation in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. doi:10.1080/ABES.20081013.29536

Tunca, D. (2009). Annotation of Marc Delrez's "The Missing Chapter in Janet Frame's Living in the Maniototo". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. doi:10.1080/ABES.20090107.30452

Tunca, D. (2009). Annotation of Ivane Mortelette's "'A Proof that I Did Exist': Janet Frame and Photography". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. doi:10.1080/ABES.20090107.30453

Tunca, D. (2009). Annotation of Omar Sougou's Writing Across Cultures: Gender Politics and Difference in the Fiction of Buchi Emecheta. Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. doi:10.1080/ABES.20080306.27292

Tunca, D. (2008). Annotation of Gerald Gaylard's "Mastering Arachnophobia: The Limits of Self-Reflexivity in African Fiction". Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. doi:10.1080/ABES.20080502.27462

Tunca, D. (2008). Review of Chantal Zabus's The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel. Tolomeo (Il), 11 (2), 30-32.

Tunca, D. (2007). Review of Tomi Adeaga's Translating and Publishing African Language(s) and Literature(s): Examples from Nigeria, Ghana and Germany. Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 31 (1), 119-121.

Tunca, D. (2005). Review of Chris Abani's Graceland and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus. Wasafiri, 45 (Summer), 81-83. doi:10.1080/02690050508589972

Others

Ledent, B., Tunca, D., & Phillips, C. (2020). "A Growth to Understanding": An Interview with Caryl Phillips about Biographical Fiction. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 55 (3), 456-468. doi:10.1177/0021989418814586

Tunca, D., Mortimer, V., & Del Calzo, E. (2013). An Interview with Chika Unigwe. Wasafiri, 75, 54-59. doi:10.1080/02690055.2013.802439

Tunca, D., & Adichie, C. N. (2008). Intervju sa Čimamandom Ngozi Adiči (Cvijanović, I., Trans.). Mostovi, 141-142, 30-33.

Tunca, D., & Unigwe, C. (2008). Afroeuropa in Conversation with Chika Unigwe. Afroeuropa: Journal of AfroEuropean Studies, 2 (1).

Scientific popularization and diffusion for general audience

Articles in magazines or newspapers

Tunca, D. (February 2022). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: L'audace de raconter le "vrai". Traces, le journal culturel de l'UCLouvain, 4, p. 2-3.

Tunca, D. (2010). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Culture, le Magazine Culturel de l'Université de Liège.

Tunca, D. (2009). ACLALS @ Buckingham Palace: A Cynical Scholar's Report on the Celebration of the Commonwealth's Diamond Anniversary. ACLALS Newsletter, p. 3-4.

Tunca, D. (March 2006). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie en Chika Unigwe: stemmen die aandacht verdienen (Demetter, L., Trans.). Rekto:verso : Tweemaandelijks Tijdschrift voor Kunstkritiek, 16, p. 18-19.

Others

Wilson, J., & Tunca, D. (2011). Editorial: The Spirit of EACLALS.

Tunca, D. (2009). Fred D'Aguiar visits the English Department.

Tunca, D. (2008). Une thèse de doctorat: "Style beyond Borders: Language in Recent Nigerian Fiction".

Unpublished conferences and communications

Posters

Tunca, D. (09 September 2010). Stylistic Issues in New Nigerian Literature [Poster presentation]. Academia Europaea 22nd Annual Conference - Beyond Lisbon: Europe as Knowledge-Intensive Society, Leuven, Belgium.

Ledent, B., & Tunca, D. (2007). Littératures anglophones d'Afrique et des Caraïbes [Poster presentation]. Séance exceptionnelle de l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-mer, Liège, Belgium.