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Liz Gunner (born 1941) is an academic who specializes in South African literature and culture, and particularly radio.
[1] She is a visiting research professor at the
University of Johannesburg
[2] and a professorial research associate at the
School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London (SOAS).
[3] She has published on African literature and run workshops all over England.
[4] Her Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern was published by
Cambridge University Press in 2019.
Born in Sri Lanka, Gunner has a PhD from the
University of London . She taught African literature for many years at
SOAS University of London , before going to work in South Africa.
[5]
Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern (Cambridge University Press, 2019;
ISBN
9781108556903 )
A Handbook for Teaching African Literature (Heinemann, 1984)
[4]
Radio in Africa: Publics, cultures, communities (with Dina Ligaga and Dumisano Moyo; Wits UP, 2011)
[1]
[6]
Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature (with Graham Furniss, 2008)
[7]
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a
b Kaarsholm, Preben (January 2013).
"Radio in Africa: Publics, cultures, communities: Review of Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga and Dumisano Moyo, Radio in Africa: Publics, cultures, communities (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2011)" .
African Affairs . 112 (446): 160–62.
doi :
10.1093/afraf/ads070 .
ISSN
0001-9909 . Retrieved 23 June 2020 .
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"Prof Liz Gunner" .
The Conversation . Retrieved 23 June 2020 .
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"Professor Liz Gunner" .
SOAS University of London . Retrieved 23 June 2020 .
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a
b Rogers, Peter (July 1984). "Reviewed Work(s): A Handbook for Teaching African Literature by Elizabeth Gunner".
African Affairs . 83 (332): 425–26.
doi :
10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097634 .
JSTOR
722363 .
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"Notes on Contributors" .
Kunapipi . Vol. 21, no. 3.
Dangaroo Press . 1999. p. 113. Retrieved 12 December 2022 .
^ Grätz, Tilo (March 2013).
"Reviewed Work(s): Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities by Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga and Dumisani Moyo" .
Journal of African Cultural Studies . 25 (1): 139–40.
doi :
10.1080/13696815.2013.766589 .
S2CID
144200718 .
^ Geider, Thomas (1997).
"Reviewed Work(s): Power, Marginality, and African Oral Literature by Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner" .
Anthropos . 92 (1–3): 242–44.
^ Ben-Amos, Dan (Fall 2000).
"Reviewed Work(s): Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature by Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner" .
Anthropological Linguistics . 42 (3): 410–14.
^ White, Landeg (January 1999). "Reviewed Work(s): Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature by Graham Furniss and Elizabeth Gunner".
Africa: Journal of the International African Institute . 69 (1): 171–73.
doi :
10.2307/1161088 .
JSTOR
1161088 .
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Bryce, Jane (April 1997). "Reviewed Work(s): Power Marginality and African Oral Literature by Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner".
African Affairs . 96 (383): 284–86.
doi :
10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a007833 .
JSTOR
723866 .
^ James, Deborah (September 1997). "Reviewed Work(s): Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature by Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner".
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute . 3 (3): 619–20.
doi :
10.2307/3034791 .
JSTOR
3034791 .
^ Tonkin, Elizabeth (1997). "Review: Performance in the Presentation of the Past. Reviewed Work(s): Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature by Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner".
The Journal of African History . 38 (2): 350–51.
JSTOR
182860 .