David Greven
Biographic Data
| ID | 240758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Greven |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Greven |
| SIGNATURE | GREVEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0244-3043 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bursting pipes and broken dreams
In the course of Kenya’s Vision 2030 development plan, the Kenyan Northern Rift Valley recently became the playground for new stakeholders, interests and speculations. Large-scale development projects, such as the geothermal exploration in Tiaty East sub-county, is one of them and is described as game-changer in a formerly marginalized area. This article explores the case of Mt. Paka, a dormant volcano, where the Kenyan Geothermal Development Com…
The Women of Get Out
Jordan Peele’s horror film Get Out (2017) has been generally acclaimed for its unflinching critique of American racism, made even more notable by the East Coast, liberal-elite setting of the film. While the film commendably organizes its mainstream horror narrative around an African American male protagonist, the film’s depiction of femininity has proven controversial. This essay explores the gender politics of the film’s depiction of women, espe…
Roads to Change
This article examines how rural roads relate to differences in livelihood patterns, attitudes toward social change, and land disputes in Baringo, Kenya. Although their direct use is limited for many residents, roads have a highly differentiating impact. While some households orientate themselves toward roads, those relying more on (agro-)pastoralist livelihoods avoid their proximity. Our findings suggest that better-off households are not the onl…
Cross-Scale Linkages of Centralized Electricity Generation
Based on a study of Kenya’s geothermal-energy development in Baringo-Silali, we explore how and with whom government actors and local communities in rural and peripheral areas interact when planning and implementing large-scale power plants. Starting from a comparison of decentralized and centralized energy systems, we demonstrate that the development of this large-scale infrastructure project and the associated investor-community relations are g…
Valdemar’s Abjection
This article explores intersections between Edgar Allan Poe’s 1845 tale “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” and Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1982). Highly influential, Kristeva’s work illuminates Poe’s depiction of a man mesmerized on the point of death, his vibrating tongue the only indication of life. In his liminal condition between life and death, Valdemar transforms into a spectacle witnessed over time by a ma…
The dark side of blondeness
Ever expanding, the field of Hitchcock studies continues painstakingly to excavate the Master’s movie house. Yet there is one part of this house that has not been much inspected – we might call it the race closet – where the director’s complex and admittedly obscure attitudes towards nonwhite subjects can be found. If, as Richard Dyer has definitively shown, whiteness is invisible because it simply represents humanness itself, it follows that rac…
The Death-Mother in Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho (1960) is a significant work on many levels—to Hitchcock’s career, to film history, to the horror genre. I propose that a crucial aspect of Psycho’s design, one that relates to Hitchcock films as a whole, is its thematization of a concept that I call the “death-mother.” A distinction between Mrs. Bates/“Mother,” on the one hand, and the death-mother, on the other hand, impels this discussion. The death-mother—which …
Hawthorne and the Gender of Jewishness
Flocking Together
Book Review| January 01 2012 Flocking Together Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American FictionNissen, Axel Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. x + 229 pp. David Greven David Greven Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2012) 18 (1): 202–205. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1422224 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation David Greven; Flocking Together.…
Cruising, hysteria, knowledge
The protagonists of Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) are a married couple who each chafes against normative gender roles. While the film has its reactionary side, in its insistence on exploring the various threats to gendered normativity from within and without, it's one of the most ideologically unstable and unclassifiable films of the 1950s. This essay treats the film as an exploration of women's discontent with 50s American Mommyis…
Cyborg Masochism, Homo-Fascism
As the most important and sustained cyborg narrative in Hollywood film, the Terminator films, particularly the first two, continue to demand a considerable amount of critical scrutiny. When the highly charged allegorical power of the figure of the cyborg is added to Arnold Schwarzenegger's star persona, now evolved into that of national political figure, this persona emerges as a welter of gendered, sexual, and racial anxieties that relate in mul…
Masculinist Theory and Romantic Authorship, Or Hawthorne, Politics, Desire
Masculinist Theory and Romantic Authorship, Or Hawthorne, Politics, Desire David Greven (bio) In The Powerful Hands of Critics such Sacvan Bercovitch, Jonathan Arac, and John Carlos Rowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne as artist and person assumes the shape of an unattractively conservative writer whose works alternately achieve political consensus through the reconciliation of opposing points of view, all ostensibly given their platform yet fused into one,…
Troubling Our Heads about Ichabod
Troubling Our Heads About Ichabod: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Classic American Literature, and the Sexual Politics of Homosocial Brotherhood offers a close reading of Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that considers its treatment of the figure of the solitary Ichabod in light of recent treatments of the story as representative of powerful bonds between men. This essay considers Irving's construction of Woman as an uncann…
Roads to Change
This article examines how rural roads relate to differences in livelihood patterns, attitudes toward social change, and land disputes in Baringo, Kenya. Although their direct use is limited for many residents, roads have a highly differentiating impact. While some households orientate themselves toward roads, those relying more on (agro-)pastoralist livelihoods avoid their proximity. Our findings suggest that better-off households are not the onl…
Bursting pipes and broken dreams
In the course of Kenya’s Vision 2030 development plan, the Kenyan Northern Rift Valley recently became the playground for new stakeholders, interests and speculations. Large-scale development projects, such as the geothermal exploration in Tiaty East sub-county, is one of them and is described as game-changer in a formerly marginalized area. This article explores the case of Mt. Paka, a dormant volcano, where the Kenyan Geothermal Development Com…
Cross-Scale Linkages of Centralized Electricity Generation
Based on a study of Kenya’s geothermal-energy development in Baringo-Silali, we explore how and with whom government actors and local communities in rural and peripheral areas interact when planning and implementing large-scale power plants. Starting from a comparison of decentralized and centralized energy systems, we demonstrate that the development of this large-scale infrastructure project and the associated investor-community relations are g…
Troubling Our Heads about Ichabod
Troubling Our Heads About Ichabod: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Classic American Literature, and the Sexual Politics of Homosocial Brotherhood offers a close reading of Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that considers its treatment of the figure of the solitary Ichabod in light of recent treatments of the story as representative of powerful bonds between men. This essay considers Irving's construction of Woman as an uncann…
Troubling Our Heads about Ichabod
Troubling Our Heads About Ichabod: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Classic American Literature, and the Sexual Politics of Homosocial Brotherhood offers a close reading of Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that considers its treatment of the figure of the solitary Ichabod in light of recent treatments of the story as representative of powerful bonds between men. This essay considers Irving's construction of Woman as an uncann…
Cyborg Masochism, Homo-Fascism
As the most important and sustained cyborg narrative in Hollywood film, the Terminator films, particularly the first two, continue to demand a considerable amount of critical scrutiny. When the highly charged allegorical power of the figure of the cyborg is added to Arnold Schwarzenegger's star persona, now evolved into that of national political figure, this persona emerges as a welter of gendered, sexual, and racial anxieties that relate in mul…
Masculinist Theory and Romantic Authorship, Or Hawthorne, Politics, Desire
Masculinist Theory and Romantic Authorship, Or Hawthorne, Politics, Desire David Greven (bio) In The Powerful Hands of Critics such Sacvan Bercovitch, Jonathan Arac, and John Carlos Rowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne as artist and person assumes the shape of an unattractively conservative writer whose works alternately achieve political consensus through the reconciliation of opposing points of view, all ostensibly given their platform yet fused into one,…
Cruising, hysteria, knowledge
The protagonists of Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) are a married couple who each chafes against normative gender roles. While the film has its reactionary side, in its insistence on exploring the various threats to gendered normativity from within and without, it's one of the most ideologically unstable and unclassifiable films of the 1950s. This essay treats the film as an exploration of women's discontent with 50s American Mommyis…
Flocking Together
Book Review| January 01 2012 Flocking Together Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American FictionNissen, Axel Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. x + 229 pp. David Greven David Greven Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2012) 18 (1): 202–205. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1422224 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation David Greven; Flocking Together.…
Hawthorne and the Gender of Jewishness
The Death-Mother in Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho (1960) is a significant work on many levels—to Hitchcock’s career, to film history, to the horror genre. I propose that a crucial aspect of Psycho’s design, one that relates to Hitchcock films as a whole, is its thematization of a concept that I call the “death-mother.” A distinction between Mrs. Bates/“Mother,” on the one hand, and the death-mother, on the other hand, impels this discussion. The death-mother—which …
Valdemar’s Abjection
This article explores intersections between Edgar Allan Poe’s 1845 tale “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” and Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1982). Highly influential, Kristeva’s work illuminates Poe’s depiction of a man mesmerized on the point of death, his vibrating tongue the only indication of life. In his liminal condition between life and death, Valdemar transforms into a spectacle witnessed over time by a ma…
The dark side of blondeness
Ever expanding, the field of Hitchcock studies continues painstakingly to excavate the Master’s movie house. Yet there is one part of this house that has not been much inspected – we might call it the race closet – where the director’s complex and admittedly obscure attitudes towards nonwhite subjects can be found. If, as Richard Dyer has definitively shown, whiteness is invisible because it simply represents humanness itself, it follows that rac…
Cross-Scale Linkages of Centralized Electricity Generation
Based on a study of Kenya’s geothermal-energy development in Baringo-Silali, we explore how and with whom government actors and local communities in rural and peripheral areas interact when planning and implementing large-scale power plants. Starting from a comparison of decentralized and centralized energy systems, we demonstrate that the development of this large-scale infrastructure project and the associated investor-community relations are g…
The Women of Get Out
Jordan Peele’s horror film Get Out (2017) has been generally acclaimed for its unflinching critique of American racism, made even more notable by the East Coast, liberal-elite setting of the film. While the film commendably organizes its mainstream horror narrative around an African American male protagonist, the film’s depiction of femininity has proven controversial. This essay explores the gender politics of the film’s depiction of women, espe…
Roads to Change
This article examines how rural roads relate to differences in livelihood patterns, attitudes toward social change, and land disputes in Baringo, Kenya. Although their direct use is limited for many residents, roads have a highly differentiating impact. While some households orientate themselves toward roads, those relying more on (agro-)pastoralist livelihoods avoid their proximity. Our findings suggest that better-off households are not the onl…
Bursting pipes and broken dreams
In the course of Kenya’s Vision 2030 development plan, the Kenyan Northern Rift Valley recently became the playground for new stakeholders, interests and speculations. Large-scale development projects, such as the geothermal exploration in Tiaty East sub-county, is one of them and is described as game-changer in a formerly marginalized area. This article explores the case of Mt. Paka, a dormant volcano, where the Kenyan Geothermal Development Com…
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