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Christopher Warnes

Christopher Warnes is a South African academic based at the University of Cambridge. He is a University Senior Lecturer in English, a corresponding Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures at the Cambridge Centre of African Studies, and a College Lecturer in English at St. John's College. He is the author of Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel: Between Faith and Irreverence,, Writing, Politics and Change in South Africa after Apartheid and co-author, with Kim Anderson Sasser, of Magical Realism and Literature.

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Christopher Warnes is a South African academic based at the University of Cambridge. He is a University Senior Lecturer in English,1 a corresponding Lecturer in African Literatures and Cultures at the Cambridge Centre of African Studies,2 and a College Lecturer in English at St. John's College.3 He is the author of Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Novel: Between Faith and Irreverence, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009),4 Writing, Politics and Change in South Africa after Apartheid (Cambridge University Press, 2023)5 and co-author, with Kim Anderson Sasser,6 of Magical Realism and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2020).7

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  1. "Faculty of English". www.english.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  2. "Dr Chris Warnes — Centre of African Studies". www.african.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  3. "| StJohns". www.joh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
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  5. Warnes, Christopher (2023). Writing, Politics and Change in South Africa after Apartheid. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-30736-9.
  6. "Kimberly Sasser". Wheaton College. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  7. Warnes, Christopher; Sasser, Kim Anderson, eds. (January 1970). Magical Realism and Literature. doi:10.1017/9781108551601. ISBN 978-1-108-55160-1. Retrieved 15 June 2020. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)