Rob Nixon is a South African author.
Nixon received a B.A. from Rhodes University, South Africa, in 1978. He was awarded an M.A. in English from the University of Iowa in 1982, and a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University in 1989. Nixon teaches environmental studies, postcolonial studies, creative nonfiction, African literature, world literature, and twentieth century British literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Books
- London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (Oxford)
- Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (Routledge)
- Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy (Picador)
- Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard)
References
- "Rob Nixon". Department of English.
- http://www.english.wisc.edu/rdnixon/files/CV.pdf
- http://www.english.wisc.edu/rdnixon/
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- Malak, Amin (May 15, 1992). "London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (review)". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 38 (4): 969–970 – via Project MUSE.
- Sprinker, Michael (May 15, 1992). "London Calling: V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (review)". Minnesota Review. 38 (1): 109–111 – via Project MUSE.
- Mustafa, Fawzia (February 15, 1995). "London Calling: V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin . Rob Nixon". Modern Philology. 92 (3): 397–399. doi:10.1086/392262 – via CrossRef.
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- Colleran, Jeanne M. (Jeanne Marie) (May 15, 1996). "Homelands, Harlem, and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (review)". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 42 (1): 211–213 – via Project MUSE.