Karina Eileraas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1300087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karina Eileraas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karina |
| FAMILY NAME | Eileraas |
| SIGNATURE | EILERAAS K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sex(t)ing Revolution, Femen-izing the Public Square
This article will examine the activism of Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, or the “nude Egyptian blogger,” to reflect on the pause that naked bodies insert into civic life and to evaluate nudity as means of protest in Egyptian as well as transnational feminist politics. By “making visible what had no business being seen,” to quote Jacques Rancière, Elmahdy’s nude body reconfigures the body politic and reimagines the theater of the political. Her activism inc…
Between Image and Identity
Chapter 1 Fantasizing the Self: Violence and the (Im)possibilities of Representation Chapter 2 Disorienting Looks, Ecarts d'Identite Colonial Photography, Ownership, and Identity Chapter 3 Misrecognizing the Family Album: Blood, Fantasy, and Nationality in the Works of Helene Cixous and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Chapter 4 Dismembering the Gaze: Speleology and Vivisection in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia
Reframing the Colonial Gaze
This essay recasts photographic creation and consumption from a postcolonial feminist perspective. It begins with a reflection on nineteenth-century legal debates regarding how to define the authorship of photographic imagery. It goes on to consider the work of French portraitist Marc Garanger, who shot identity card portraits of Algerians for the French military during the Algerian revolution . Finally, this essay asks how the Algerian-French no…
Witches, Bitches & Fluids
First, what do I mean by ugliness? I view it as an intentional deviation from nice, gentle, ways of looking, talking, behaving, and visualizing. Contemporary girl bands deploy ugliness as a resistant practice that challenges cultural representations of pretty femininity. Specifically, I consider the following as sites of ugliness in girl-band performance: album cover art, image, voice, sound, language, lyrics, stage antics, sexuality, and the bod…
Reframing the Colonial Gaze
This essay recasts photographic creation and consumption from a postcolonial feminist perspective. It begins with a reflection on nineteenth-century legal debates regarding how to define the authorship of photographic imagery. It goes on to consider the work of French portraitist Marc Garanger, who shot identity card portraits of Algerians for the French military during the Algerian revolution . Finally, this essay asks how the Algerian-French no…
Witches, Bitches & Fluids
First, what do I mean by ugliness? I view it as an intentional deviation from nice, gentle, ways of looking, talking, behaving, and visualizing. Contemporary girl bands deploy ugliness as a resistant practice that challenges cultural representations of pretty femininity. Specifically, I consider the following as sites of ugliness in girl-band performance: album cover art, image, voice, sound, language, lyrics, stage antics, sexuality, and the bod…
Reframing the Colonial Gaze
This essay recasts photographic creation and consumption from a postcolonial feminist perspective. It begins with a reflection on nineteenth-century legal debates regarding how to define the authorship of photographic imagery. It goes on to consider the work of French portraitist Marc Garanger, who shot identity card portraits of Algerians for the French military during the Algerian revolution . Finally, this essay asks how the Algerian-French no…
Between Image and Identity
Chapter 1 Fantasizing the Self: Violence and the (Im)possibilities of Representation Chapter 2 Disorienting Looks, Ecarts d'Identite Colonial Photography, Ownership, and Identity Chapter 3 Misrecognizing the Family Album: Blood, Fantasy, and Nationality in the Works of Helene Cixous and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Chapter 4 Dismembering the Gaze: Speleology and Vivisection in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia
Sex(t)ing Revolution, Femen-izing the Public Square
This article will examine the activism of Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, or the “nude Egyptian blogger,” to reflect on the pause that naked bodies insert into civic life and to evaluate nudity as means of protest in Egyptian as well as transnational feminist politics. By “making visible what had no business being seen,” to quote Jacques Rancière, Elmahdy’s nude body reconfigures the body politic and reimagines the theater of the political. Her activism inc…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · North African History and Literature (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (2 works)