Angus Whitehead
Biographic Data
| ID | 134342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angus Whitehead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angus |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitehead |
| SIGNATURE | WHITEHEAD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8392-2988 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
"Your Tiny White Vests, Unworn": Contemporary Elegies of Maternal Loss
This essay asks whether poetry can articulate the experience of maternal loss, paying particular attention to questions of form. Focusing on two British poetry collections, Rebecca Goss's Her Birth (2013) and Karen McCarthy Woolf's An Aviary of Small Birds (2014), I argue that the contemporary elegy is currently being reshaped to explore the grief of losing a baby, and to bear witness to a life briefly lived. Drawing on Caroline Levine's emphasis…
Singapore Literature and Culture: Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts
Entrails of Empire
Empire still has sufficient afterlife to bite at the heels of modern Britain: court cases and compensation claims by elderly Kenyans once held in Mau Mau-era detention camps; hidden colonial records disclosed only under legal duress; the revival of Argentina’s claim to what it calls the Malvinas and Britain calls the Falkland Islands. That’s part of the aftermath. Yet in many more ways, the map of much of the world has been made, or fractured, by…
Intimating the sacred: Religion in English language Malaysian fiction
by Andrew Hock Soon Ng, Hong Kong, Hong Kong UP, 2011, 281 pp., HK$195.00/US$25.00, ISBN 987 9 8880 8320 6 To date, Malaysian literature in English has received little critical attention. Andrew Ho
Reading with empathy: Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother
Through a reading of Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother (1998), this article assesses claims for the empathetic potential of reading fiction, as a means of promoting cross-racial understanding. Drawing on feminist theorists Ann Cvetkovich, Clare Hemmings, and Sara Ahmed, I uncover the modes of political critique that can reside in resisting affective identification, and position Magona's rejection of empathetic cross-racial connection as a critiqu…
Affecting feminism: Questions of feeling in feminist theory
This special issue engages with the relationship between feminist theory and ‘the affective turn’. Through their analyses of a range of affective states, spheres and sites, the authors in this volume pose critical questions regarding feminist theoretical engagements with affect, emotion and feeling. They ask whether it is necessarily a positive move to put affect theory and feminist theory together, or whether there are inherent risks, for exampl…
Sharing borders: Studies in contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian literature
Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation
STEF CRAPS Brighton and Portland, Sussex Academic Press, 2005 230 pp., ISBN: 1-84519-004-1, £45.00 (hb) Working across the fields of ethical criticism and trauma theory, this volume offers a detail
Telling tales: Trauma and testimony in Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments
Trauma Fiction
This text focuses on the ways in which contemporary novelists explore the theme of trauma and incorporate its structures into their writing. It provides readings of texts by Pat Barker Jackie Kay, Anne Michaels, Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, W.G. Sebald and Benjamin Wilkomirski.
Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay
Affecting feminism: Questions of feeling in feminist theory
This special issue engages with the relationship between feminist theory and ‘the affective turn’. Through their analyses of a range of affective states, spheres and sites, the authors in this volume pose critical questions regarding feminist theoretical engagements with affect, emotion and feeling. They ask whether it is necessarily a positive move to put affect theory and feminist theory together, or whether there are inherent risks, for exampl…
Reading with empathy: Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother
Through a reading of Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother (1998), this article assesses claims for the empathetic potential of reading fiction, as a means of promoting cross-racial understanding. Drawing on feminist theorists Ann Cvetkovich, Clare Hemmings, and Sara Ahmed, I uncover the modes of political critique that can reside in resisting affective identification, and position Magona's rejection of empathetic cross-racial connection as a critiqu…
Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay
Intimating the sacred: Religion in English language Malaysian fiction
by Andrew Hock Soon Ng, Hong Kong, Hong Kong UP, 2011, 281 pp., HK$195.00/US$25.00, ISBN 987 9 8880 8320 6 To date, Malaysian literature in English has received little critical attention. Andrew Ho
Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay
Telling tales: Trauma and testimony in Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments
Trauma Fiction
This text focuses on the ways in which contemporary novelists explore the theme of trauma and incorporate its structures into their writing. It provides readings of texts by Pat Barker Jackie Kay, Anne Michaels, Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, W.G. Sebald and Benjamin Wilkomirski.
Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation
STEF CRAPS Brighton and Portland, Sussex Academic Press, 2005 230 pp., ISBN: 1-84519-004-1, £45.00 (hb) Working across the fields of ethical criticism and trauma theory, this volume offers a detail
Reading with empathy: Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother
Through a reading of Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother (1998), this article assesses claims for the empathetic potential of reading fiction, as a means of promoting cross-racial understanding. Drawing on feminist theorists Ann Cvetkovich, Clare Hemmings, and Sara Ahmed, I uncover the modes of political critique that can reside in resisting affective identification, and position Magona's rejection of empathetic cross-racial connection as a critiqu…
Affecting feminism: Questions of feeling in feminist theory
This special issue engages with the relationship between feminist theory and ‘the affective turn’. Through their analyses of a range of affective states, spheres and sites, the authors in this volume pose critical questions regarding feminist theoretical engagements with affect, emotion and feeling. They ask whether it is necessarily a positive move to put affect theory and feminist theory together, or whether there are inherent risks, for exampl…
Sharing borders: Studies in contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian literature
Entrails of Empire
Empire still has sufficient afterlife to bite at the heels of modern Britain: court cases and compensation claims by elderly Kenyans once held in Mau Mau-era detention camps; hidden colonial records disclosed only under legal duress; the revival of Argentina’s claim to what it calls the Malvinas and Britain calls the Falkland Islands. That’s part of the aftermath. Yet in many more ways, the map of much of the world has been made, or fractured, by…
Intimating the sacred: Religion in English language Malaysian fiction
by Andrew Hock Soon Ng, Hong Kong, Hong Kong UP, 2011, 281 pp., HK$195.00/US$25.00, ISBN 987 9 8880 8320 6 To date, Malaysian literature in English has received little critical attention. Andrew Ho
Singapore Literature and Culture: Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts
"Your Tiny White Vests, Unworn": Contemporary Elegies of Maternal Loss
This essay asks whether poetry can articulate the experience of maternal loss, paying particular attention to questions of form. Focusing on two British poetry collections, Rebecca Goss's Her Birth (2013) and Karen McCarthy Woolf's An Aviary of Small Birds (2014), I argue that the contemporary elegy is currently being reshaped to explore the grief of losing a baby, and to bear witness to a life briefly lived. Drawing on Caroline Levine's emphasis…
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