Autor: Gerald Porter

David Bell Ph. D. is a free-lance translator and independent researcher. His research interests include British working-class writing of the 1930s and contemporary South African fiction. In addition to articles in these fields, his publications include: Ardent Propaganda. Miners” novels and class conflict 1929—1939 (1995), Latitude 630 North (ed. 2002) and Joseph Conrad”s Nigger of the Narcissus: A Dialogue Seminar (ed. 2002). He is currently co-editing a volume of critical essays on the South African writer Zakes Mda.Gerald Porter is Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of English at the University of Vaasa, Finland. His main interest is in radical and vernacular song and its transmission, a field in which he has published The English Occupational Song (Umeå, 1992) and (with Mary-Ann Constantine) Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song from the Blues to the Baltic (Oxford University Press).