Veronica Barnsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 163677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronica Barnsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronica |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnsley |
| SIGNATURE | BARNSLEY V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5985-3321 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Childhood, Inter-species Kinship and the Oceanic Weird in Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s The House of Rust
This article reads Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s novel The House of Rust (2021) as an example of the oceanic weird that reimagines inter-species kinship via the child. Bringing the blue humanities and childhood studies into dialogue, it explores how the oceanic weird “submerges” gendered and racialised discourses of childhood forged in the Anthropocene in the temporal and spatial dynamics of the ocean. Childhood in flux enables new forms of ecologica…
Material stories of migration
This article reflects on the power of poetry to reframe the concepts of home, arrival and belonging, each of which is important in understanding the relationship between migration and culture. It traces the journey of a collective poem – ‘Grapes in My Father’s Yard’ – that was created during the Material Stories of Migration project in Sheffield in 2015; was performed at Migration Matters Festival and has since been shared in multiple digital and…
Midwifery Narratives and Development Discourses
In this article I explore the intersection of literature and development via the figure of the midwife. This approach is prompted by the recognition that, despite their importance, midwives often remain on the margins of both development and global health research, and literary analysis. Making midwives the centre of attention allows us to encounter the range of biomedical processes and practices that punctuate pregnancy and birth, the cultural i…
The postcolonial child in Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild
This article offers a consideration of the figure of the child in Benh Zeitlin’s film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), a vibrant but urgent ecological drama motivated by the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It examines how a film that on its release was praised as an American survival story focused on a feisty young heroine can be more productively understood through a postcolonial lens as a radical vision of world ecology underpinn…
Anticipatory anti-colonial writing in R.K. Narayan’s Swami and Friends and Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
This article uses the term “anticipatory anti-colonial writing” to discuss the workings of time in R.K. Narayan’s Swami and Friends and Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable. Both these first novels were published in 1935 with the support of British literary personalities (Graham Greene and E.M. Forster respectively) and both feature young protagonists who, in contrasting ways, are engaged in Indian resistance to colonial rule. This study examines the dif…
Modernist voyages
Modernist voyages: colonial women writers in London, 1890–1945." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(6), pp. 752–753
Postcolonial fiction and disability
A sustained dialogue between postcolonial theory and disability studies, focusing on the “exceptional child” in novels by Patricia Grace, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Bapsi Sidhwa, Salman Rushdie and Ben Ok
Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing
This enterprising study surveys feminist issues in the novels of four of India's most acclaimed contemporary women novelists — Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai and Shashi Deshpande
Material stories of migration
This article reflects on the power of poetry to reframe the concepts of home, arrival and belonging, each of which is important in understanding the relationship between migration and culture. It traces the journey of a collective poem – ‘Grapes in My Father’s Yard’ – that was created during the Material Stories of Migration project in Sheffield in 2015; was performed at Migration Matters Festival and has since been shared in multiple digital and…
Midwifery Narratives and Development Discourses
In this article I explore the intersection of literature and development via the figure of the midwife. This approach is prompted by the recognition that, despite their importance, midwives often remain on the margins of both development and global health research, and literary analysis. Making midwives the centre of attention allows us to encounter the range of biomedical processes and practices that punctuate pregnancy and birth, the cultural i…
The postcolonial child in Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild
This article offers a consideration of the figure of the child in Benh Zeitlin’s film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), a vibrant but urgent ecological drama motivated by the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It examines how a film that on its release was praised as an American survival story focused on a feisty young heroine can be more productively understood through a postcolonial lens as a radical vision of world ecology underpinn…
Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing
This enterprising study surveys feminist issues in the novels of four of India's most acclaimed contemporary women novelists — Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai and Shashi Deshpande
Anticipatory anti-colonial writing in R.K. Narayan’s Swami and Friends and Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
This article uses the term “anticipatory anti-colonial writing” to discuss the workings of time in R.K. Narayan’s Swami and Friends and Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable. Both these first novels were published in 1935 with the support of British literary personalities (Graham Greene and E.M. Forster respectively) and both feature young protagonists who, in contrasting ways, are engaged in Indian resistance to colonial rule. This study examines the dif…
Modernist voyages
Modernist voyages: colonial women writers in London, 1890–1945." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(6), pp. 752–753
Postcolonial fiction and disability
A sustained dialogue between postcolonial theory and disability studies, focusing on the “exceptional child” in novels by Patricia Grace, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Bapsi Sidhwa, Salman Rushdie and Ben Ok
The postcolonial child in Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild
This article offers a consideration of the figure of the child in Benh Zeitlin’s film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), a vibrant but urgent ecological drama motivated by the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It examines how a film that on its release was praised as an American survival story focused on a feisty young heroine can be more productively understood through a postcolonial lens as a radical vision of world ecology underpinn…
Material stories of migration
This article reflects on the power of poetry to reframe the concepts of home, arrival and belonging, each of which is important in understanding the relationship between migration and culture. It traces the journey of a collective poem – ‘Grapes in My Father’s Yard’ – that was created during the Material Stories of Migration project in Sheffield in 2015; was performed at Migration Matters Festival and has since been shared in multiple digital and…
Midwifery Narratives and Development Discourses
In this article I explore the intersection of literature and development via the figure of the midwife. This approach is prompted by the recognition that, despite their importance, midwives often remain on the margins of both development and global health research, and literary analysis. Making midwives the centre of attention allows us to encounter the range of biomedical processes and practices that punctuate pregnancy and birth, the cultural i…
Childhood, Inter-species Kinship and the Oceanic Weird in Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s The House of Rust
This article reads Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s novel The House of Rust (2021) as an example of the oceanic weird that reimagines inter-species kinship via the child. Bringing the blue humanities and childhood studies into dialogue, it explores how the oceanic weird “submerges” gendered and racialised discourses of childhood forged in the Anthropocene in the temporal and spatial dynamics of the ocean. Childhood in flux enables new forms of ecologica…
Art (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)