Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
Biographic Data
| ID | 1226593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magalí |
| FAMILY NAME | Armillas-Tiseyra |
| SIGNATURE | ARMILLAS-TISEYRA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2500-5353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Of freedom and the problem of the future in contemporary diasporic African speculative fiction
Reading Deji Bryce Olukotun’s After the Flare (2017) and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” (2017) alongside Emmanuel Dongala’s “Jazz et vin de palme” (“Jazz and Palm Wine,” 1970), this essay begins with the observation that these contemporary works of speculative fiction by writers from the recent African diaspora suggest a sense of crisis about the future. Both Arimah and Olukotun proffer future worlds little di…
The African Novel at the Vanguard
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Introduction: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies, Continuing the Conversation
In this introduction to the second of two special issues on “New Critical Directions in Global South Studies,” the editors reflect on the state of the field, provide a brief discussion of analogous projects in other disciplines, and give an overview of the essays contained in the issue
Introduction: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies
This introductory article to the special issue takes stock of the scholarly impact of the last fifteen years of Global South studies scholarship in the field of literary and cultural studies, and comparative literature in particular. It contends that the Global South offers a dynamic framework for comparison of economic, political, and cultural inequalities beyond state-centric forms of analysis, and for this reason, is uniquely germane to the in…
The dictator as heuristic: Trump, Zuma, and the hazards of comparison
This essay investigates the hazards of comparing Trump and Zuma, invoking “hazard” in its negative as well as potentially positive senses. Focusing on the recurrent association of Trump with (often former) strongmen of the erstwhile Third World – as in the Daily Show’s 2015 segment, “Donald Trump: America’s First African President” – I posit that the critical value of such characterizations is undercut by the assumptions they reveal about Africa …
The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South
Tales from the Corpolony: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow and the Dictator-Novel in the Time of Transition
This article reads Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow as both a dictator-novel and a critical use of the genre to analyze the larger-scale global political transformations (so-called "transitions") that followed the end of the Cold War. Beyond its critique of dictators and dictatorship on the African continent, Wizard of the Crow turns attention to nascent networks of opposition to neoliberalism and neoliberal globalization. This constitutes …
The Global South Atlantic
Marvelous Autocrats: Disrupted Realisms in the Dictator Novel of the South Atlantic
Afronauts: On Science Fiction and the Crisis of Possibility
This essay investigates the critical function of science fiction (SF) tropes in SF and non-SF works by and about Africans. It begins with the assertion that works that invoke SF tropes, even if they are not properly speaking SF, can productively be read within the frame of SF. It then analyzes the ways in which writers and visual artists use speculative technological advances to explore the systematic marginalization of the African continent in t…
Introduction: Dislocations
The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988
Book Review| May 01 2013 The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988 The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988Andrade, Susan Z.Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011272 pp., $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 125–126. https:/…
Afronauts: On Science Fiction and the Crisis of Possibility
This essay investigates the critical function of science fiction (SF) tropes in SF and non-SF works by and about Africans. It begins with the assertion that works that invoke SF tropes, even if they are not properly speaking SF, can productively be read within the frame of SF. It then analyzes the ways in which writers and visual artists use speculative technological advances to explore the systematic marginalization of the African continent in t…
Introduction: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies
This introductory article to the special issue takes stock of the scholarly impact of the last fifteen years of Global South studies scholarship in the field of literary and cultural studies, and comparative literature in particular. It contends that the Global South offers a dynamic framework for comparison of economic, political, and cultural inequalities beyond state-centric forms of analysis, and for this reason, is uniquely germane to the in…
Of freedom and the problem of the future in contemporary diasporic African speculative fiction
Reading Deji Bryce Olukotun’s After the Flare (2017) and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” (2017) alongside Emmanuel Dongala’s “Jazz et vin de palme” (“Jazz and Palm Wine,” 1970), this essay begins with the observation that these contemporary works of speculative fiction by writers from the recent African diaspora suggest a sense of crisis about the future. Both Arimah and Olukotun proffer future worlds little di…
The African Novel at the Vanguard
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Tales from the Corpolony: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow and the Dictator-Novel in the Time of Transition
This article reads Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow as both a dictator-novel and a critical use of the genre to analyze the larger-scale global political transformations (so-called "transitions") that followed the end of the Cold War. Beyond its critique of dictators and dictatorship on the African continent, Wizard of the Crow turns attention to nascent networks of opposition to neoliberalism and neoliberal globalization. This constitutes …
Introduction: Dislocations
The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988
Book Review| May 01 2013 The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988 The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988Andrade, Susan Z.Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011272 pp., $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 125–126. https:/…
Afronauts: On Science Fiction and the Crisis of Possibility
This essay investigates the critical function of science fiction (SF) tropes in SF and non-SF works by and about Africans. It begins with the assertion that works that invoke SF tropes, even if they are not properly speaking SF, can productively be read within the frame of SF. It then analyzes the ways in which writers and visual artists use speculative technological advances to explore the systematic marginalization of the African continent in t…
The Global South Atlantic
Marvelous Autocrats: Disrupted Realisms in the Dictator Novel of the South Atlantic
Tales from the Corpolony: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow and the Dictator-Novel in the Time of Transition
This article reads Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow as both a dictator-novel and a critical use of the genre to analyze the larger-scale global political transformations (so-called "transitions") that followed the end of the Cold War. Beyond its critique of dictators and dictatorship on the African continent, Wizard of the Crow turns attention to nascent networks of opposition to neoliberalism and neoliberal globalization. This constitutes …
The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South
The dictator as heuristic: Trump, Zuma, and the hazards of comparison
This essay investigates the hazards of comparing Trump and Zuma, invoking “hazard” in its negative as well as potentially positive senses. Focusing on the recurrent association of Trump with (often former) strongmen of the erstwhile Third World – as in the Daily Show’s 2015 segment, “Donald Trump: America’s First African President” – I posit that the critical value of such characterizations is undercut by the assumptions they reveal about Africa …
Introduction: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies
This introductory article to the special issue takes stock of the scholarly impact of the last fifteen years of Global South studies scholarship in the field of literary and cultural studies, and comparative literature in particular. It contends that the Global South offers a dynamic framework for comparison of economic, political, and cultural inequalities beyond state-centric forms of analysis, and for this reason, is uniquely germane to the in…
The African Novel at the Vanguard
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Introduction: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies, Continuing the Conversation
In this introduction to the second of two special issues on “New Critical Directions in Global South Studies,” the editors reflect on the state of the field, provide a brief discussion of analogous projects in other disciplines, and give an overview of the essays contained in the issue
Of freedom and the problem of the future in contemporary diasporic African speculative fiction
Reading Deji Bryce Olukotun’s After the Flare (2017) and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” (2017) alongside Emmanuel Dongala’s “Jazz et vin de palme” (“Jazz and Palm Wine,” 1970), this essay begins with the observation that these contemporary works of speculative fiction by writers from the recent African diaspora suggest a sense of crisis about the future. Both Arimah and Olukotun proffer future worlds little di…
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