Malvern van Wyk Smith

Malvern van Wyk Smith

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Malvern van Wyk Smith


Former head of the Rhodes University English department, retired Professor Malvern van Wyk Smith was awarded an English Academy of Southern Africa gold medal for his lifetime achievements as a teacher, academic and literary scholar in 2013. Professor van Wyk Smith's book Drummer Hodge: the Poetry of the Anglo-Boer War appeared in 1978. His publications include the book Grounds of Contest: A survey of South African Literature (1990), and several papers and articles on the European image of Africa, colonial and postcolonial discourse, the Black Diaspora, and the teaching of literature.