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Profile
Otto
Heim has a PhD from the University of Basel and joined the Department
of English at HKU in 2001. His areas of research
and teaching include Pacific Island, Caribbean, and American
literatures, with particular interest in representations of
indigeneity, cross-cultural engagement and transnationalism.
He has published widely on indigenous (Maori) writing from New
Zealand, as well as on American writers from the Caribbean to
Canada and between. His current research focuses on literary
creativity in the Pacific Island region and its engagement with
indigeneity and globalization. He is a member of the editorial
board of the Island
Studies Journal.
Courses
taught in 2010-11:
ENGL3034:
Research seminar in English literary studies
Publications
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Books:
Writing Along Broken Lines: Violence and Ethnicity in Contemporary
Maori Fiction. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998.
247pp.
Inventing the Past: Memory Work in Culture and History. Ed. with Caroline Wiedmer. Basel: Schwabe, 2005. 235pp.
Journal articles and book chapters:
"Breath
as Metaphor of Sovereignty in Pacific Island Poetry." New Literatures Review (forthcoming).
"Fall
and Response: Alan Duff's Shameful Autoethnography." Postcolonial Text 3.4 (2007).
"The Interplay of the Local and the Global in Witi Ihimaera's
Revisions." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 43.3
(Dec. 2007): 310 - 322.
"Allegories
of awakening: Melancholy, repetition and 'race' in Charles Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars." Inventing the Past:
Memory Work in Culture and History. Ed. Otto Heim and Caroline
Wiedmer. Basel: Schwabe, 2005. 117-37.
"Introduction:
Figures of memory." With Caroline Wiedmer. Inventing
the Past: Memory Work in Culture and History. Ed. Otto Heim
and Caroline Wiedmer. Basel: Schwabe, 2005. 1-14.
"Time
and Mobility in the Writing of Charles W. Chesnutt." Comparative
American Studies 1.2 (June 2003): 222-45.
"Traditions
of Guardianship in Maori Literature." Colonies, Missions,
Cultures in the English-Speaking World. Ed. Gerhard Stilz.
Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2001. 299-306.
"Resisting
Incorporation: The Melodrama of Agency and the Naturalist Text." The Limits of Textuality. Ed. Lukas Erne and Guillemette
Bolens. Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 13.
Tübingen: Narr, 2000. 53-76.
"Reading
off the Map, or: What, and Where, is Experience in the Writing
of Aritha van Herk and M. Nourbese Philip?" Theory and Literary
Creation. Ed. Jean-Pierre Durix. Dijon: Editions Universitaires
de Dijon, 1999. 129-44.
"The
Moko of the Pakeha: Syncretism in Maori Literature." Syncrétisme
et Interculturel. Ed. Jean-Pierre Durix. Dijon: Editions
Universitaires de Dijon, 1997. 91-102.
"Magic
and the Great Trust: The Place of the Intellectual in Mark Twain's
and Edward Bellamy's Visions of Distant Societies." Empire:
American Studies. Ed. John G. Blair and Reinhold Wagnleitner.
Swiss Papers in English Language and Literatures 10. Tübingen:
Narr, 1997. 211-23.
"Unfinished
Visions Beyond Nostalgic Mimicry: Derek Walcott's The Last
Carnival in a Modernist Light." Aspects of Modernism.
Ed. Andreas Fischer et al. Tübingen: Narr, 1997. 295-312.
"'To
Be True One Must Find One's Kaupapa': Moments of Agency in Maori
Fiction." Commonwealth 19.2 (Spring 1997): 1-21.
"Supplement
to the Voyage of Columbus: Literary Voyages of (Un-)Discovery
in the South Pacific." Deferring a Dream: Literary Sub-Versions
of the American Columbiad. Ed. Gert Buelens and Ernst Rudin.
Basel: Birkhäuser, 1994. 48-75.
"Hu(l)man
Medi(t)ations: Intercultural Explorations in Keri Hulme's The Windeater / Te Kaihau." With Anne Zimmermann. Australian
and New Zealand Studies in Canada 8 (Dec. 1992): 106-35.
Reviews
and encyclopedia entries:
"Alan
Duff", biographical profile and essays on One Were
Warriors, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?,
and Both Sides of the Moon. The
Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Clark. Web-based
publication. 2005, 2009.
"Apirana
Taylor." The Literary
Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Clark. Web-based publication.
2005.
"Another
Thing about Jake." Review of Alan Duff, Jake's Long Shadow (Vintage, 2002), New Zealand Books 13.2 (June 2003):
16.
"Wrestling
with the Patriarch." Review of Witi Ihimaera, The Uncle's
Story (Penguin, 2000), New Zealand Books 11.1 (March
2001): 19.
"Plumb
Duff." Review of Alan Duff, Out of the Mist and Steam (Tandem Press, 1999), New Zealand Books 10.2 (June 2000):
1.
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