Peter J. Maurits

Peter J. Maurits is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He is interested in how literary forms, and particularly genres, move through the world-literary system and change in the process. He has written about postcolonial Europe, the British and Mozambican modern ghost story, and futurism. He is currently working on a book about African science fiction.

Journal Articles:

Maurits, Peter J.. "Review of Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction, by Nivedita Bagchi." Fantastika 5.1 (2021): 89 - 93.
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Maurits, Peter J.. "Review of Michael Robertson’s The Last Utopians." Fantastika 4.1 (2020): 189 - 191.
URL: https://fantastikajournal.com/
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Maurits, Peter J.. "Legacies of marxism? Contemporary African science fiction and the concern with literary realism." African Identities (2020).
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Maurits, Peter J.. "(Haunted) Cosmopolitan Places: World Literature, the Modern Ghost Story, and the Structure of Debt." Anglistik 30.3 (2019): 57 - 72.
URL: https://angl.winter-verlag.de/article/angl/2019/3/7
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Maurits, Peter J.. "Review of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics: Transmedia World-Building Beyond Capitalism by Dan Hassler-Forest." Fantastika 1.2 (2017): 100 - 103.
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Maurits, Peter J.. "Vanishing migrants and the impossibility of a European Union." Interventions 17.4 (2014): 503 - 518.
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2014.950313
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Maurits, Peter J.. "Review of Poole, W., Scott. Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting." Supernatural Studies 1.1 (2013): 100 - 103.
URL: https://www.supernaturalstudies.com/previous-journal-issues/vol-1-issue-1
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Book Contributions
Maurits, Peter J.. "Sedimented Reading Habits? The Future Utopia in Contemporary African Science and Speculative Fiction." The Political Uses of Literature. Ed. Ivana Perica, Benjamin Kohlmann, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2024.
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Maurits, Peter J.. "Mia Couto and the Aesthetics of the Global." The Worlds of Mia Couto. Ed. Kristian Van Haesendonck, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020. 61 - 82.
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Maurits, Peter J.. "Futurism." Critical Terms in Futures Studies. Ed. Heike Paul, Houndmills Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2019. 131 - 137.
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Maurits, Peter J.. "Geisterwelt." Welt-Komposita. Hrg. Robert Stockhammer and Thomas Erthel, Paderborn: Fink Verlag, 2019. 86 - 89.
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Maurits, Peter J.. "On the Emergence of African Science Fiction." Te Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Francesca  Barbini, Edinburgh: Luna Press, 2018. 1 - 26.
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Maurits, Peter J.. "The Mozambican Ghost Story: A Modern Genre." Literatura e Outras Artes na Construção da Memória em Angola e Moçambique. Ed. neke Phaf-Rheinberger, Ana Sobral, and Selma Pantoja, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017. 168 - 186.
URL: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64823
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Maurits, Peter J.. "The Mozambican ghost story: Local genre or global form?" Globalizing Literary Genres. Ed. Jernej Habjan and Fabienne Imlinger, New York: Routledge, 2015. 180 - 195.
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