Lisa Propst
Biographic Data
| ID | 165611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Propst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Propst |
| SIGNATURE | PROPST L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of West Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5668-4163 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pandemic Fiction Meets Political Science: A Simulation for Teaching Restorative Justice
We team teach an interdisciplinary political science and literature course titled “Violence and Reconciliation,” with case studies on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa and on debates about whether to develop a TRC in Northern Ireland. The course culminates in a two-week simulation in which students role play the experiences, strategies, and needs of victims, perpetrators, legal teams, government officials, and NGOs in …
Information glut and conspicuous silence in Lauren Beukes'sZoo City
In recent years, mass media representations of inner-city lives in South Africa have tended to focus on poverty and crime in ways that flatten out the subjectivity of residents. In response, a growing corpus of fiction and scholarship has sought to give voice to the complexities of life in contemporary South African cityscapes. Lauren Beukes’s 2010 Beukes, Lauren. 2010. Zoo City. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. [Google Scholar] thriller Zoo City take…
From Vogue to the Virgin Mary: Marina Warner and Constructions of Female Agency in 1970s Feminism
In the two decades since Marina Warner gave the 1994 Reith Lectures, the flagship lecture series of BBC Radio, she has become increasingly visible as a public intellectual, both for her scholarship
Reconciliation and the “self-in-community” in post-transitional South African fiction
Since the end of apartheid and South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, efforts at reconciliation have been dramatic, most notably in the form of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), as well as deeply incomplete. In response, a great deal of post-transitional South African literature and criticism has taken up the question of how to effect reconciliation, particularly outside institutional forums like the TRC. A prominent stra…
Shimon Attie's Site-Specific Installations as Enigmatic Monuments to Survival
Site-specific installations Between Dreams and History (1998) and The History of Another (2002), by American artist Shimon Attie, explore how reinterpretations of the past have helped to promote cultural survival for Jewish communities in the Lower East Side of New York and the former ghetto of Rome. They suggest that reinventing memories enabled people to create new connections between past and present, fostering a sense of shared identity and e…
Making One Story: Forms of Reconciliation in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated and Nathan Englander's The Ministry of Special Cases
Journal Article "Making One Story"? Forms of Reconciliation in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated and Nathan Englander's The Ministry of Special Cases Get access Lisa Propst Lisa Propst University of West Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 37–60, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0003 Published: 01 March 2011
Information glut and conspicuous silence in Lauren Beukes'sZoo City
In recent years, mass media representations of inner-city lives in South Africa have tended to focus on poverty and crime in ways that flatten out the subjectivity of residents. In response, a growing corpus of fiction and scholarship has sought to give voice to the complexities of life in contemporary South African cityscapes. Lauren Beukes’s 2010 Beukes, Lauren. 2010. Zoo City. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. [Google Scholar] thriller Zoo City take…
Reconciliation and the “self-in-community” in post-transitional South African fiction
Since the end of apartheid and South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, efforts at reconciliation have been dramatic, most notably in the form of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), as well as deeply incomplete. In response, a great deal of post-transitional South African literature and criticism has taken up the question of how to effect reconciliation, particularly outside institutional forums like the TRC. A prominent stra…
Pandemic Fiction Meets Political Science: A Simulation for Teaching Restorative Justice
We team teach an interdisciplinary political science and literature course titled “Violence and Reconciliation,” with case studies on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa and on debates about whether to develop a TRC in Northern Ireland. The course culminates in a two-week simulation in which students role play the experiences, strategies, and needs of victims, perpetrators, legal teams, government officials, and NGOs in …
Making One Story: Forms of Reconciliation in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated and Nathan Englander's The Ministry of Special Cases
Journal Article "Making One Story"? Forms of Reconciliation in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated and Nathan Englander's The Ministry of Special Cases Get access Lisa Propst Lisa Propst University of West Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 37–60, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0003 Published: 01 March 2011
Making One Story: Forms of Reconciliation in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated and Nathan Englander's The Ministry of Special Cases
Journal Article "Making One Story"? Forms of Reconciliation in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated and Nathan Englander's The Ministry of Special Cases Get access Lisa Propst Lisa Propst University of West Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 37–60, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0003 Published: 01 March 2011
Shimon Attie's Site-Specific Installations as Enigmatic Monuments to Survival
Site-specific installations Between Dreams and History (1998) and The History of Another (2002), by American artist Shimon Attie, explore how reinterpretations of the past have helped to promote cultural survival for Jewish communities in the Lower East Side of New York and the former ghetto of Rome. They suggest that reinventing memories enabled people to create new connections between past and present, fostering a sense of shared identity and e…
Reconciliation and the “self-in-community” in post-transitional South African fiction
Since the end of apartheid and South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, efforts at reconciliation have been dramatic, most notably in the form of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), as well as deeply incomplete. In response, a great deal of post-transitional South African literature and criticism has taken up the question of how to effect reconciliation, particularly outside institutional forums like the TRC. A prominent stra…
From Vogue to the Virgin Mary: Marina Warner and Constructions of Female Agency in 1970s Feminism
In the two decades since Marina Warner gave the 1994 Reith Lectures, the flagship lecture series of BBC Radio, she has become increasingly visible as a public intellectual, both for her scholarship
Information glut and conspicuous silence in Lauren Beukes'sZoo City
In recent years, mass media representations of inner-city lives in South Africa have tended to focus on poverty and crime in ways that flatten out the subjectivity of residents. In response, a growing corpus of fiction and scholarship has sought to give voice to the complexities of life in contemporary South African cityscapes. Lauren Beukes’s 2010 Beukes, Lauren. 2010. Zoo City. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. [Google Scholar] thriller Zoo City take…
Pandemic Fiction Meets Political Science: A Simulation for Teaching Restorative Justice
We team teach an interdisciplinary political science and literature course titled “Violence and Reconciliation,” with case studies on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa and on debates about whether to develop a TRC in Northern Ireland. The course culminates in a two-week simulation in which students role play the experiences, strategies, and needs of victims, perpetrators, legal teams, government officials, and NGOs in …
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)