Megan Cole Paustian
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Cole Paustian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan Cole |
| FAMILY NAME | Paustian |
| SIGNATURE | PAUSTIAN M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Central College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Laughing through the Mask in Invisible Man
What is the relationship among Blackness, whiteness, and laughter? For Ralph Ellison, race is at the heart of “the American joke”; his phrase suggests that humor is somehow fundamental to the American story. It is certainly fundamental to his novel, Invisible Man (1952). While much scholarship has addressed the novel’s humor—how it makes readers laugh—the laughter of characters has been underexplored. From start to finish, the narrative is punctu…
Giving a Global Account of Oneself
In Giving an Account of Oneself, Judith Butler asks how we justify our lives through narrative and what this means for ethical relations with others. This essay repositions Butler's work in a humanitarian frame, foregrounding how moral commitments play out on a transatlantic scale. The humanitarian impulse is rooted, partly, in the desire to narrate oneself onto the globe, linking a savior to a suffering other, with Africa problematically positio…
Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing
Living Beyond Apartheid
This essay explores the ethical murkiness of interpersonal reconciliation in the post-liberation era, focusing on the problem of material, and specifically territorial, restitution—an aspect of justice which critics say was the missing component of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace alongside Bessie Head’s A Question of Power offers a window into the knotty relationship between reconciliation and redistr…
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Living Beyond Apartheid
This essay explores the ethical murkiness of interpersonal reconciliation in the post-liberation era, focusing on the problem of material, and specifically territorial, restitution—an aspect of justice which critics say was the missing component of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace alongside Bessie Head’s A Question of Power offers a window into the knotty relationship between reconciliation and redistr…
Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing
Laughing through the Mask in Invisible Man
What is the relationship among Blackness, whiteness, and laughter? For Ralph Ellison, race is at the heart of “the American joke”; his phrase suggests that humor is somehow fundamental to the American story. It is certainly fundamental to his novel, Invisible Man (1952). While much scholarship has addressed the novel’s humor—how it makes readers laugh—the laughter of characters has been underexplored. From start to finish, the narrative is punctu…
Giving a Global Account of Oneself
In Giving an Account of Oneself, Judith Butler asks how we justify our lives through narrative and what this means for ethical relations with others. This essay repositions Butler's work in a humanitarian frame, foregrounding how moral commitments play out on a transatlantic scale. The humanitarian impulse is rooted, partly, in the desire to narrate oneself onto the globe, linking a savior to a suffering other, with Africa problematically positio…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)