Kai Easton

Kai Easton is Professor of Literature and Visual Cultures at Krea University near Chennai in South India. Recent work includes, J M Coetzee & the Archive (with Marc Farrant and Hermann Wittenberg, 2021), Zoë Wicomb & the Translocal (with Derek Attridge, 2017), Scenes from the South (2020; 2022; 2024), Navigating the War (2017), and Waves of Navigation (with Hannah Sherrard, 2022). She is a visiting research fellow at the universities of Adelaide and KwaZulu-Natal.

Articles by Kai Easton

Southern Crossings: J M Coetzee at 80

Read an extract from an essay originally published in the catalogue for Scenes from the South (Makhanda: Amazwi South African Museum of Literature, 2020), an international travelling exhibition curated by Kai Easton (SOAS University of London) and David Attwell (York) in collaboration with Amazwi and the Harry Ransom Center (HRC), University of Texas at Austin.

Scenes from October: Tribute for Zoë Wicomb by Kai Easton

In this moving tribute – with an accompanying visual travelogue spanning South Africa and Scotland – Kai Easton explores the legacy of late South African writer, Zoë Wicomb, reflecting especially on her relationship to photography.

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