Christopher Apap
Biographic Data
| ID | 1529409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Apap |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Apap |
| SIGNATURE | APAP C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oakland University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Love, Alex”: Queering Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated (2002) follows the two protagonists and narrators of the novel, American descendent of Holocaust survivors Jonathan and Alexander Perchov, his Ukrainian translator and collaborator on the story that constitutes the book itself. This article analyzes a heretofore unconsidered element of the novel: the potential to read Alex as queer. The book’s possible queer narrative is tragic, bittersweet at best…
An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic
Kate Luce Mulry's An Empire Transformed presents a compelling mix of environmental, medical, scientific, and cultural history. Mulry's decision to focus on a relatively tight historical framework—largely the reign of England's Charles II (1660–1685), especially the first decade—enables a productive deep dive in the rhetoric and imagination surrounding the bodies of his subjects and the spaces they inhabited. Early Americanists seeking a comprehen…
Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Sexy” and the Ethical Mapping of Subjectivity
Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story, “Sexy,” has been understood as a meditation on postcolonial desire since it was published as a part of her acclaimed debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999). This paper does not aim to destabilize postcolonial readings of the widely anthologized story but instead to argue that Lahiri’s story of an ill-fated affair between Miranda, a naïve white Midwestern woman, and Dev, a worldly and quite married Bengali ma…
Caught between two opinions Africans, Europeans, and Indians in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative
Even before Paul Gilroy's theorizing of the Black Atlantic, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African (1789) had been seen as a crucial illustration of the radical possibilities available for enterprising Africans in the 18th-century Atlantic world. Instead of reading the binary opposition of Africa and England or of colonizer and colonized, this article attempts to complicate binary understand…
Caught between two opinions Africans, Europeans, and Indians in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative
Even before Paul Gilroy's theorizing of the Black Atlantic, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African (1789) had been seen as a crucial illustration of the radical possibilities available for enterprising Africans in the 18th-century Atlantic world. Instead of reading the binary opposition of Africa and England or of colonizer and colonized, this article attempts to complicate binary understand…
Caught between two opinions Africans, Europeans, and Indians in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative
Even before Paul Gilroy's theorizing of the Black Atlantic, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African (1789) had been seen as a crucial illustration of the radical possibilities available for enterprising Africans in the 18th-century Atlantic world. Instead of reading the binary opposition of Africa and England or of colonizer and colonized, this article attempts to complicate binary understand…
Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Sexy” and the Ethical Mapping of Subjectivity
Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story, “Sexy,” has been understood as a meditation on postcolonial desire since it was published as a part of her acclaimed debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999). This paper does not aim to destabilize postcolonial readings of the widely anthologized story but instead to argue that Lahiri’s story of an ill-fated affair between Miranda, a naïve white Midwestern woman, and Dev, a worldly and quite married Bengali ma…
An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic
Kate Luce Mulry's An Empire Transformed presents a compelling mix of environmental, medical, scientific, and cultural history. Mulry's decision to focus on a relatively tight historical framework—largely the reign of England's Charles II (1660–1685), especially the first decade—enables a productive deep dive in the rhetoric and imagination surrounding the bodies of his subjects and the spaces they inhabited. Early Americanists seeking a comprehen…
Love, Alex”: Queering Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated (2002) follows the two protagonists and narrators of the novel, American descendent of Holocaust survivors Jonathan and Alexander Perchov, his Ukrainian translator and collaborator on the story that constitutes the book itself. This article analyzes a heretofore unconsidered element of the novel: the potential to read Alex as queer. The book’s possible queer narrative is tragic, bittersweet at best…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Atlantic World (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)