Olivera Jokic
Biographic Data
| ID | 231585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivera Jokic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivera |
| FAMILY NAME | Jokic |
| SIGNATURE | JOKIC O |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Archival Lives of Popular Culture
Orientalism in Transit
No country, no cry
This article discusses how works of popular fiction cultivate affective attachments to unstable distinctions between citizens and migrants, “refugees” and “economic migrants”, or “legal” and “irregular” migrants. Focusing on two texts published in the USA between the mid-1990s and 2015 that thematize the fallout from late-20th-century conflicts in former Yugoslavia, the article examines how novels written by women get read as instruments of women…
Eighteenth‐Century Orientalism in Contemporary British Historiography and Literary Criticism
To speak about orientalism now is to explain the persistent concern, among academic and non‐academic readers and writers alike, with the transformative effect of Edward Said's (1978). Said's text has been taken as a challenge by historians of society and of literature alike. To these scholars, the book offered a vast new field of inquiry into the relationship between European and colonial history, between cultural production and capitalism, and b…
Commanding Correspondence
This article discusses the centrality of the letter form in the conveyance of the "evidence of experience" from India to Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century. It examines the Letterbook of John Bruce, which preserves the correspondence between Bruce—the "official historiographer" of the East India Company hired in 1793—and various Company officials in India he was attempting to recruit for a project of revisionist imperial historiography…
Archival Lives of Popular Culture
No country, no cry
This article discusses how works of popular fiction cultivate affective attachments to unstable distinctions between citizens and migrants, “refugees” and “economic migrants”, or “legal” and “irregular” migrants. Focusing on two texts published in the USA between the mid-1990s and 2015 that thematize the fallout from late-20th-century conflicts in former Yugoslavia, the article examines how novels written by women get read as instruments of women…
Commanding Correspondence
This article discusses the centrality of the letter form in the conveyance of the "evidence of experience" from India to Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century. It examines the Letterbook of John Bruce, which preserves the correspondence between Bruce—the "official historiographer" of the East India Company hired in 1793—and various Company officials in India he was attempting to recruit for a project of revisionist imperial historiography…
Commanding Correspondence
This article discusses the centrality of the letter form in the conveyance of the "evidence of experience" from India to Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century. It examines the Letterbook of John Bruce, which preserves the correspondence between Bruce—the "official historiographer" of the East India Company hired in 1793—and various Company officials in India he was attempting to recruit for a project of revisionist imperial historiography…
Eighteenth‐Century Orientalism in Contemporary British Historiography and Literary Criticism
To speak about orientalism now is to explain the persistent concern, among academic and non‐academic readers and writers alike, with the transformative effect of Edward Said's (1978). Said's text has been taken as a challenge by historians of society and of literature alike. To these scholars, the book offered a vast new field of inquiry into the relationship between European and colonial history, between cultural production and capitalism, and b…
No country, no cry
This article discusses how works of popular fiction cultivate affective attachments to unstable distinctions between citizens and migrants, “refugees” and “economic migrants”, or “legal” and “irregular” migrants. Focusing on two texts published in the USA between the mid-1990s and 2015 that thematize the fallout from late-20th-century conflicts in former Yugoslavia, the article examines how novels written by women get read as instruments of women…
Orientalism in Transit
Archival Lives of Popular Culture
Historiography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)