Joseph R Slaughter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1064672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph R Slaughter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph R |
| FAMILY NAME | Slaughter |
| SIGNATURE | SLAUGHTER J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9302-9942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum
George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum is a major collection that aims to address th…
Pathetic fallacies: Personification and the unruly subjects of international law
International law is a creole without native speakers, produced at interfaces among distinct languages (often in colonial contact zones), not reducible to its participating tongues. Its figurations of sovereignty and personhood may not obey ordinary grammatical rules. Unruly personifications in Amos Tutuola’s Palm-wine Drinkard, colonial charter company treaties, and legal theory, highlight some pitfalls of confusing legal fictions for social fac…
Vanishing Points
All classes, all human groups, have their narratives, enjoyment of which is very often shared by men with different, even opposing, cultural backgrounds. Jenny Holzer&s;s canvases might be called unnarrative painting, in the sense that narratologist Gerald Prince has given to "the category of the unnarratable": That which, according to a narrative, cannot be narrated or is not worth narrating either because it transgresses a law or because it def…
Locations of Comparison
What difference does it make who compares? From what location? What kinds of comparison are possible, inevitable, even necessary at particular historical moments? What are the extra-literary conditions of literary comparison? How and when does literature qualify for comparison? Revisiting Harry Levin’s seminal essay, “Comparing the Literature” (1968), this paper—originally presented as the presidential address at the 2017 American Comparative Lit…
More Locations of Comparison: On Forum Shopping and Global South Envy in a Globalizing Discipline
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The Global South Atlantic
The enchantment of human rights; or, What difference does humanitarian indifference make
Vanishing Points: When Narrative Is Not Simply There
The narrative turn in the social sciences and the ethical turn in the humanities that occurred in the 1990s converged in the study of human rights and social justice. Human rights, it was argued, were about and dependent upon modes of storytelling; torture was often cited as a paradigmatic example of the ways in which narrative and human rights were co-implicated. The centralization of torture in the prosecution of the “War on Terror” and the rec…
Introducing Human Rights and Literary Forms; Or, the Vehicles and Vocabularies of Human Rights
Research Article| January 01 2009 INTRODUCING HUMAN RIGHTS AND LITERARY FORMS; OR, THE VEHICLES AND VOCABULARIES OF HUMAN RIGHTS Sophia A. McClennen; Sophia A. McClennen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Joseph R. Slaughter Joseph R. Slaughter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2009) 46 (1): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659698 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitt…
Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law
Enabling Fictions and Novel Subjects: The Bildungsroman and International Human Rights Law
With adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, the United Nations conscripted, almost by default, the historically Euronationalist forms of the Bildungsroman and natural law to legitimate its vision of a new international order. This essay elaborates the conceptual vocabulary, deep narrative grammar, and humanist social vision that normative human rights law and the idealist Bildungsroman share in their cooperative eff…
Master Plans: Designing (National) Allegories of Urban Space and Metropolitan Subjects for Postcolonial Kenya
Joseph R. Slaughter, Master Plans: Designing (National) Allegories of Urban Space and Metropolitan Subjects for Postcolonial Kenya, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 30-51
Torture and Commemoration: "Narrating Solidarity in Elvira Orphee's "Las viejas fantasiosas
Ladies and Pensioners: Stereotypes and Public Policy Affecting Old Women in England, 1880-1940
Janet Roebuck, Jane Slaughter; Ladies and Pensioners: Stereotypes and Public Policy Affecting Old Women in England, 1880–1940, Journal of Social History, V
Master Plans: Designing (National) Allegories of Urban Space and Metropolitan Subjects for Postcolonial Kenya
Joseph R. Slaughter, Master Plans: Designing (National) Allegories of Urban Space and Metropolitan Subjects for Postcolonial Kenya, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 30-51
Vanishing Points: When Narrative Is Not Simply There
The narrative turn in the social sciences and the ethical turn in the humanities that occurred in the 1990s converged in the study of human rights and social justice. Human rights, it was argued, were about and dependent upon modes of storytelling; torture was often cited as a paradigmatic example of the ways in which narrative and human rights were co-implicated. The centralization of torture in the prosecution of the “War on Terror” and the rec…
Locations of Comparison
What difference does it make who compares? From what location? What kinds of comparison are possible, inevitable, even necessary at particular historical moments? What are the extra-literary conditions of literary comparison? How and when does literature qualify for comparison? Revisiting Harry Levin’s seminal essay, “Comparing the Literature” (1968), this paper—originally presented as the presidential address at the 2017 American Comparative Lit…
Ladies and Pensioners: Stereotypes and Public Policy Affecting Old Women in England, 1880-1940
Janet Roebuck, Jane Slaughter; Ladies and Pensioners: Stereotypes and Public Policy Affecting Old Women in England, 1880–1940, Journal of Social History, V
Torture and Commemoration: "Narrating Solidarity in Elvira Orphee's "Las viejas fantasiosas
Master Plans: Designing (National) Allegories of Urban Space and Metropolitan Subjects for Postcolonial Kenya
Joseph R. Slaughter, Master Plans: Designing (National) Allegories of Urban Space and Metropolitan Subjects for Postcolonial Kenya, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring, 2004), pp. 30-51
Enabling Fictions and Novel Subjects: The Bildungsroman and International Human Rights Law
With adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, the United Nations conscripted, almost by default, the historically Euronationalist forms of the Bildungsroman and natural law to legitimate its vision of a new international order. This essay elaborates the conceptual vocabulary, deep narrative grammar, and humanist social vision that normative human rights law and the idealist Bildungsroman share in their cooperative eff…
Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law
Introducing Human Rights and Literary Forms; Or, the Vehicles and Vocabularies of Human Rights
Research Article| January 01 2009 INTRODUCING HUMAN RIGHTS AND LITERARY FORMS; OR, THE VEHICLES AND VOCABULARIES OF HUMAN RIGHTS Sophia A. McClennen; Sophia A. McClennen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Joseph R. Slaughter Joseph R. Slaughter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2009) 46 (1): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659698 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitt…
Vanishing Points: When Narrative Is Not Simply There
The narrative turn in the social sciences and the ethical turn in the humanities that occurred in the 1990s converged in the study of human rights and social justice. Human rights, it was argued, were about and dependent upon modes of storytelling; torture was often cited as a paradigmatic example of the ways in which narrative and human rights were co-implicated. The centralization of torture in the prosecution of the “War on Terror” and the rec…
The enchantment of human rights; or, What difference does humanitarian indifference make
The Global South Atlantic
Vanishing Points
All classes, all human groups, have their narratives, enjoyment of which is very often shared by men with different, even opposing, cultural backgrounds. Jenny Holzer&s;s canvases might be called unnarrative painting, in the sense that narratologist Gerald Prince has given to "the category of the unnarratable": That which, according to a narrative, cannot be narrated or is not worth narrating either because it transgresses a law or because it def…
Locations of Comparison
What difference does it make who compares? From what location? What kinds of comparison are possible, inevitable, even necessary at particular historical moments? What are the extra-literary conditions of literary comparison? How and when does literature qualify for comparison? Revisiting Harry Levin’s seminal essay, “Comparing the Literature” (1968), this paper—originally presented as the presidential address at the 2017 American Comparative Lit…
More Locations of Comparison: On Forum Shopping and Global South Envy in a Globalizing Discipline
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Pathetic fallacies: Personification and the unruly subjects of international law
International law is a creole without native speakers, produced at interfaces among distinct languages (often in colonial contact zones), not reducible to its participating tongues. Its figurations of sovereignty and personhood may not obey ordinary grammatical rules. Unruly personifications in Amos Tutuola’s Palm-wine Drinkard, colonial charter company treaties, and legal theory, highlight some pitfalls of confusing legal fictions for social fac…
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum
George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum is a major collection that aims to address th…
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