L Plate
Biographic Data
| ID | 12035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Plate |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Plate |
| SIGNATURE | PLATE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2722-7462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What bodies remember: Dance, affect, and the Dutch colonial past
This article reports on a research project that we built around a dance theatre work to (1) bring bodily affectivity concerning the Dutch colonial slavery past into focal awareness; (2) survey the entanglement of mind, body, and world; and (3) explore dance/movement arts’ potential as ‘social medicine’. Farida Nabibaks’ Margaretha brings together a Euro-Western and an Africana (African and African-Caribbean diaspora) lineage of dance practice and…
The Scholar's Coffee
In this chapter, Liedeke Plate breaks a lance for materializing theories of embodied subjectivity. Focusing on the coffee break, it discusses the relationship between food and the performing body of the (cultural studies) scholar to foreground the material and biochemical dimensions of the embodied subject of academic scholarship and its entanglement with its surroundings. Given the colonial roots and neocolonial dimensions of coffee in the conte…
Fig. 1: Dora Maar, Hand-Shell, 1934. London, Tate Modern
Fig. 1: The cover of Thomas Pitfield's The Poetry of Trees (1942). Copyright of the Pitfield Trust. Reproduced with the permission of the Pitfield Trust.
Introduction: Materials Matter
In the introduction of the volume Materials of Culture, László Munteán and Liedeke Plate advocate for a 'materials turn' within the larger sweep of the material turn in the humanities and the social sciences. Drawing on theories of material culture studies, new materialism, and material agency, as well as on recent scholarship in anthropology, archaeology, and art history, the authors lay the groundwork for a materials-based perspective in cultur…
Fig. 1: Corridor leading to arts classrooms in school 1. Photograph by the author
I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans of Gone with the Wind negotiate anti-racist criticism
In recent years an increasing number of cultural products have come under fire for moral or political reasons, such as racist or sexist content, in the mainstream (White) public sphere. An outstanding example is the classic 1939 film Gone with the Wind ( GWTW), which is loved by many but also strongly criticised for glorifying the American Antebellum South and ignoring the inhumanity of slavery. This case study explores how fans of the film (and …
Materials of Culture: Approaches to Materials in Cultural Studies
Liedeke Plate is professor of culture and inclusivity at Radboud University, where she researches the relationship between art, culture and inclusion.A cultural theorist at heart, she focuses on literature, gender and cultural memory and publishes internationally on the subject of women, reading and rewriting, forgetting, the material turn in literary and cultural studies, cultural memory, and gender and urban space.The red thread throughout her …
Food and White Multiculturalism: Racial Aesthetics of Commercial Gentrification in Amsterdam’s Javastraat
In this article, we use Hage’s (2000) critique of White multiculturalism’s orientalizing logic of ethnic enrichment as a lens to analyze the multicultural valorization through ethnic food of the Javastraat, the commercial artery of Amsterdam’s Indische Buurt district. Stemming from a larger ethnographic study of gentrification in the area, the article provides evidence of how racial aesthetics have served as the central guiding principle in the t…
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture: A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies
Amnesiology: Towards the study of cultural oblivion
It is generally accepted that memory is a dialectic involving both remembering and forgetting. Also, there is agreement among cultural memory scholars that acts of memory seek to counter the effects of forgetting: they serve the imperative to remember and impede the work of forgetting. This article develops the concept of amnesiology to explore forgetting and forgetfulness not as a failure of memory but as a made condition, produced and reproduce…
Climate Change and the Metamorphosis of Memory: A Response to Stef Craps
n Contains fulltext :\n 178209.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Amnesiology: Towards the study of cultural oblivion
It is generally accepted that memory is a dialectic involving both remembering and forgetting. Also, there is agreement among cultural memory scholars that acts of memory seek to counter the effects of forgetting: they serve the imperative to remember and impede the work of forgetting. This article develops the concept of amnesiology to explore forgetting and forgetfulness not as a failure of memory but as a made condition, produced and reproduce…
How to Do Things with Literature in the Digital Age: Anne Carson's Nox, Multimodality, and the Ethics of Bookishness
This article focuses on Nox (2010), an experimental, multimodal work that is a replica of the scrapbook Anne Carson made in memory of her recently deceased brother, Michael. So far, Nox has received relatively little critical attention. This essay aims to redress this lacuna. First, it places the work in the context of the digital moment, discussing its material and memorial dimensions, exploring its citational poetics, and inquiring into the rea…
Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women’s Rewriting
Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting w
Untold Stories: ‘Writing Back’ to Silence
‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’, Gayatri Spivak crucially asked (1988), answering that since the subaltern woman cannot speak within existing discourses, the conditions that would allow her to do so need to be created. The silence of the subaltern poses important questions for the feminist project of rewriting as an intervention in cultural memory. Can rewriting be a means of knowing ‘the silent, silenced centre’, and does it constitute a journey into…
Thinking Through the Mothers: Reimagining Women's Biographies
n Contains fulltext :\n 94890.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture: A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies
SCOPUS: ch.b
Making the Personal Political: Dutch Women Writers 1919-1970. Jane Fenoulhet
This is in many ways an important book. Although it covers a period preceding the one staked out by Contemporary Women's Writing, it has much to say to it. Historically, it looks at women writers who prepared the ground for the second wave of feminism in the Netherlands, what the author calls “the dormant period before women broke through into the public sphere in the Netherlands” (178), and which she locates around 1968. Women writers would not …
Remembering the Future; or, Whatever Happened to Re‐Vision
n Contains fulltext :\n 68417.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Is Contemporary Women's Writing Computational? Unraveling Twenty-First Century Creativity with Penelope at her Loom
“Literature in the twenty-first century is computational,” Katherine Hayles advances in her contribution to a recent issue of New Literary History that explores the question “What Is Literature Now?” (Hayles 2007: 99). Contemporary literature, conceived as the whole system of literary production, reception, and distribution, is permeated at every level by computation. It does not exist without electronic digital computers and cannot be thought ou…
Bearing Witness: Gender and the Poetry of 9/11
n Contains fulltext :\n 72901.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Walking in Virginia Woolf’s footsteps: Performing cultural memory
The past two decades have seen the rise of the walking tour as a tourist practice that stands in uneasy and contradictory relation to commodity culture. Focusing on the guided tour to Virginia Woolf’s London, this article examines what happens when we literally go back to Bloomsbury, walking the literary text as we write the urban one. Placing it in a tradition of walking as a cultural, critical and aesthetic practice, this article explores the l…
The Poethic Turn: Writing, Poetry and Politics After Nine Eleven
Walking in Virginia Woolf’s footsteps: Performing cultural memory
The past two decades have seen the rise of the walking tour as a tourist practice that stands in uneasy and contradictory relation to commodity culture. Focusing on the guided tour to Virginia Woolf’s London, this article examines what happens when we literally go back to Bloomsbury, walking the literary text as we write the urban one. Placing it in a tradition of walking as a cultural, critical and aesthetic practice, this article explores the l…
Food and White Multiculturalism: Racial Aesthetics of Commercial Gentrification in Amsterdam’s Javastraat
In this article, we use Hage’s (2000) critique of White multiculturalism’s orientalizing logic of ethnic enrichment as a lens to analyze the multicultural valorization through ethnic food of the Javastraat, the commercial artery of Amsterdam’s Indische Buurt district. Stemming from a larger ethnographic study of gentrification in the area, the article provides evidence of how racial aesthetics have served as the central guiding principle in the t…
I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans of Gone with the Wind negotiate anti-racist criticism
In recent years an increasing number of cultural products have come under fire for moral or political reasons, such as racist or sexist content, in the mainstream (White) public sphere. An outstanding example is the classic 1939 film Gone with the Wind ( GWTW), which is loved by many but also strongly criticised for glorifying the American Antebellum South and ignoring the inhumanity of slavery. This case study explores how fans of the film (and …
How to Do Things with Literature in the Digital Age: Anne Carson's Nox, Multimodality, and the Ethics of Bookishness
This article focuses on Nox (2010), an experimental, multimodal work that is a replica of the scrapbook Anne Carson made in memory of her recently deceased brother, Michael. So far, Nox has received relatively little critical attention. This essay aims to redress this lacuna. First, it places the work in the context of the digital moment, discussing its material and memorial dimensions, exploring its citational poetics, and inquiring into the rea…
The Poethic Turn: Writing, Poetry and Politics After Nine Eleven
Amnesiology: Towards the study of cultural oblivion
It is generally accepted that memory is a dialectic involving both remembering and forgetting. Also, there is agreement among cultural memory scholars that acts of memory seek to counter the effects of forgetting: they serve the imperative to remember and impede the work of forgetting. This article develops the concept of amnesiology to explore forgetting and forgetfulness not as a failure of memory but as a made condition, produced and reproduce…
Is Contemporary Women's Writing Computational? Unraveling Twenty-First Century Creativity with Penelope at her Loom
“Literature in the twenty-first century is computational,” Katherine Hayles advances in her contribution to a recent issue of New Literary History that explores the question “What Is Literature Now?” (Hayles 2007: 99). Contemporary literature, conceived as the whole system of literary production, reception, and distribution, is permeated at every level by computation. It does not exist without electronic digital computers and cannot be thought ou…
The Poethic Turn: Writing, Poetry and Politics After Nine Eleven
Walking in Virginia Woolf’s footsteps: Performing cultural memory
The past two decades have seen the rise of the walking tour as a tourist practice that stands in uneasy and contradictory relation to commodity culture. Focusing on the guided tour to Virginia Woolf’s London, this article examines what happens when we literally go back to Bloomsbury, walking the literary text as we write the urban one. Placing it in a tradition of walking as a cultural, critical and aesthetic practice, this article explores the l…
Is Contemporary Women's Writing Computational? Unraveling Twenty-First Century Creativity with Penelope at her Loom
“Literature in the twenty-first century is computational,” Katherine Hayles advances in her contribution to a recent issue of New Literary History that explores the question “What Is Literature Now?” (Hayles 2007: 99). Contemporary literature, conceived as the whole system of literary production, reception, and distribution, is permeated at every level by computation. It does not exist without electronic digital computers and cannot be thought ou…
Bearing Witness: Gender and the Poetry of 9/11
n Contains fulltext :\n 72901.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Remembering the Future; or, Whatever Happened to Re‐Vision
n Contains fulltext :\n 68417.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture: A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies
SCOPUS: ch.b
Making the Personal Political: Dutch Women Writers 1919-1970. Jane Fenoulhet
This is in many ways an important book. Although it covers a period preceding the one staked out by Contemporary Women's Writing, it has much to say to it. Historically, it looks at women writers who prepared the ground for the second wave of feminism in the Netherlands, what the author calls “the dormant period before women broke through into the public sphere in the Netherlands” (178), and which she locates around 1968. Women writers would not …
Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting
Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women’s Rewriting
Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting w
Untold Stories: ‘Writing Back’ to Silence
‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’, Gayatri Spivak crucially asked (1988), answering that since the subaltern woman cannot speak within existing discourses, the conditions that would allow her to do so need to be created. The silence of the subaltern poses important questions for the feminist project of rewriting as an intervention in cultural memory. Can rewriting be a means of knowing ‘the silent, silenced centre’, and does it constitute a journey into…
Thinking Through the Mothers: Reimagining Women's Biographies
n Contains fulltext :\n 94890.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
How to Do Things with Literature in the Digital Age: Anne Carson's Nox, Multimodality, and the Ethics of Bookishness
This article focuses on Nox (2010), an experimental, multimodal work that is a replica of the scrapbook Anne Carson made in memory of her recently deceased brother, Michael. So far, Nox has received relatively little critical attention. This essay aims to redress this lacuna. First, it places the work in the context of the digital moment, discussing its material and memorial dimensions, exploring its citational poetics, and inquiring into the rea…
Amnesiology: Towards the study of cultural oblivion
It is generally accepted that memory is a dialectic involving both remembering and forgetting. Also, there is agreement among cultural memory scholars that acts of memory seek to counter the effects of forgetting: they serve the imperative to remember and impede the work of forgetting. This article develops the concept of amnesiology to explore forgetting and forgetfulness not as a failure of memory but as a made condition, produced and reproduce…
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture: A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies
Amnesiology: Towards the study of cultural oblivion
It is generally accepted that memory is a dialectic involving both remembering and forgetting. Also, there is agreement among cultural memory scholars that acts of memory seek to counter the effects of forgetting: they serve the imperative to remember and impede the work of forgetting. This article develops the concept of amnesiology to explore forgetting and forgetfulness not as a failure of memory but as a made condition, produced and reproduce…
Climate Change and the Metamorphosis of Memory: A Response to Stef Craps
n Contains fulltext :\n 178209.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Food and White Multiculturalism: Racial Aesthetics of Commercial Gentrification in Amsterdam’s Javastraat
In this article, we use Hage’s (2000) critique of White multiculturalism’s orientalizing logic of ethnic enrichment as a lens to analyze the multicultural valorization through ethnic food of the Javastraat, the commercial artery of Amsterdam’s Indische Buurt district. Stemming from a larger ethnographic study of gentrification in the area, the article provides evidence of how racial aesthetics have served as the central guiding principle in the t…
The Scholar's Coffee
In this chapter, Liedeke Plate breaks a lance for materializing theories of embodied subjectivity. Focusing on the coffee break, it discusses the relationship between food and the performing body of the (cultural studies) scholar to foreground the material and biochemical dimensions of the embodied subject of academic scholarship and its entanglement with its surroundings. Given the colonial roots and neocolonial dimensions of coffee in the conte…
Fig. 1: Dora Maar, Hand-Shell, 1934. London, Tate Modern
Fig. 1: The cover of Thomas Pitfield's The Poetry of Trees (1942). Copyright of the Pitfield Trust. Reproduced with the permission of the Pitfield Trust.
Introduction: Materials Matter
In the introduction of the volume Materials of Culture, László Munteán and Liedeke Plate advocate for a 'materials turn' within the larger sweep of the material turn in the humanities and the social sciences. Drawing on theories of material culture studies, new materialism, and material agency, as well as on recent scholarship in anthropology, archaeology, and art history, the authors lay the groundwork for a materials-based perspective in cultur…
Fig. 1: Corridor leading to arts classrooms in school 1. Photograph by the author
I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans of Gone with the Wind negotiate anti-racist criticism
In recent years an increasing number of cultural products have come under fire for moral or political reasons, such as racist or sexist content, in the mainstream (White) public sphere. An outstanding example is the classic 1939 film Gone with the Wind ( GWTW), which is loved by many but also strongly criticised for glorifying the American Antebellum South and ignoring the inhumanity of slavery. This case study explores how fans of the film (and …
Materials of Culture: Approaches to Materials in Cultural Studies
Liedeke Plate is professor of culture and inclusivity at Radboud University, where she researches the relationship between art, culture and inclusion.A cultural theorist at heart, she focuses on literature, gender and cultural memory and publishes internationally on the subject of women, reading and rewriting, forgetting, the material turn in literary and cultural studies, cultural memory, and gender and urban space.The red thread throughout her …
What bodies remember: Dance, affect, and the Dutch colonial past
This article reports on a research project that we built around a dance theatre work to (1) bring bodily affectivity concerning the Dutch colonial slavery past into focal awareness; (2) survey the entanglement of mind, body, and world; and (3) explore dance/movement arts’ potential as ‘social medicine’. Farida Nabibaks’ Margaretha brings together a Euro-Western and an Africana (African and African-Caribbean diaspora) lineage of dance practice and…
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