Jane Hiddleston
Biographic Data
| ID | 253136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Hiddleston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Hiddleston |
| SIGNATURE | HIDDLESTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4616-6017 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Christopher T. Bonner , Cold War Negritude: Form and Alignment in French Caribbean Literature
Adam Shatz , The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Jason Allen-Paisant , Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits
Transculturality and ecology in francophone North African poetry: Human/non-human and global/local communities
As an alternative to a model of world literature complicit with global capitalism and its ecological destruction, critics have proposed the ‘planetary turn’ to name the emergence of a mode of thinking capable of accommodating both social and ecological diversity. Global relationality in this context is understood not only as connectivity between different cultures but also that between the human and the non-human, and emphasizes not only cultural…
The Intuitive Lianas of My Hands
Frantz Fanon famously reacted to Jean-Paul Sartre's appropriation of Negritude with the assertion that he would rebuild it with his hands, working intuitively to regrow Black subjectivity as if in the coiling form of the liana tree. Fanon's reference to the "lianes intuitives" suggests at once a primary, sensory activity and a complicity with a plant form that symbolizes creative interweaving. This essay takes Fanon's response to Negritude as a s…
The Black Woman's Mask: Fanon, Capécia, Condé
This article examines both the persistence and the deconstruction of authenticity in francophone modernist and postmodernist representations of black women. The discussion takes as a starting point Fanon’s reading of Mayotte Capécia’s Je suis martiniquaise in Peau noire, masques blancs, and notes his scathing denunciation of the protagonist’s negrophobia. While Fanon uses the text to diagnose the black woman’s inferiority complex, manifested by h…
Inspiring Language Learners
Chapter 8 showcases work with schools in creative writing workshops and the Multilingual Performance Project (MPP), exploring the energy languages can bring to classroom work when they provide a context in which it’s OK just to have fun with languages, encourage experimentation with new expressive resources, and build confidence with linguistic diversity
Languages of return: Aimé Césaire and Dany Laferrière
This article explores the multiple forms of language used to imagine the return to the “native land” in works by Aimé Césaire and Dany Laferrière. In Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (1939), the return is a dual movement, encapsulating both the rediscovery of Martinique and the spectre of a fantasised reconnection with Africa. The article analyses the languages that evoke and create these returns in the Cahier alongside those of Dany La…
Writing After Postcolonialism: Francophone North African Literature in Transition
‘Focusing on francophone writing from North Africa as it has developed since the 1980s, Writing After Postcolonialism explores the extent to which the notion of ‘postcolonialism’ is still resonant for literary writers a generation or more after independence, and examines the troubled status of literature in society and politics during this period. Whilst analysing the ways in which writers from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia have reacted to politic…
On peut apprendre de la littérature à se méfier”: Writing and Doubt in the Contemporary Algerian Novel
In his study of the Maghrebian novel and decolonization, Le Roman maghrébin, Abdelkébir Khatibi clearly allies literature with revolution. Indeed, according to Khatibi, the mission of the novel at that time was to “exprimer le drame d'une société en crise” [“represent the drama of a society in crisis”] (11). Since the horrors of Algeria's “décennie noire,” however, and in particular in response to the war waged against liberal and francophone int…
Francophone North African Literature
The study of francophone North African literature has witnessed something of a surge in popularity over the last twenty years. Although many of the richest and best-known literary works in French by North African writers were published in the lead-up to and aftermath of decolonization, criticism in this area has exploded in recent decades, in particular with the rise of postcolonial studies in the US and the UK. If, moreover, the end of the Frenc…
C ésaire, A imé (1913–2008)
Aimé Césaire was a Martinican poet and politician and one of the founding fathers of the negritude movement. He is best known for his epic poem Notebook of a Return to My Native Land , an extraordinarily eloquent work in which he denounces the evils of colonialism and the slave trade in the Antilles, and envisions the liberation of both black people and humanity more broadly from oppression. Césaire was also for fifty years the Mayor of Fort‐de‐F…
Understanding Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism offers challenging and provocative ways of thinking about colonial and neocolonial power, about self and other, and about the discourses that perpetuate postcolonial inequality and violence. Much of the seminal work in postcolonialism has been shaped by currents in philosophy, notably Marxism and ethics. "Understanding Postcolonialism" examines the philosophy of postcolonialism in order to reveal the often conflicting systems of t…
Travelling Poetry’: Text as Migrant in Amin Maalouf's Samarcande
In his celebrated essay ‘Travelling Theory’, Edward Said evokes the dynamic migration of ideas between cultures and epochs and the resulting, continual production of new theories out of the transformation of the old. Describing the distinct stages of a text’s journey, he tracks the process of departure from a point of origin, the distance covered, the conditions and practices encountered by the theory or idea at its destination, and ‘the now full…
Decolonising the Intellectual: Politics, Culture, and Humanism at the End of the French Empire
Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to the decolonisation were faced with an impossible dilemma. How could they redefine their culture, and the ‘humanity’ they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking by which they were formed? Figures such as Senghor, C©♭saire, Fanon, Amrouche, Feraoun and Kateb were all educated, indeed immersed, in French culture and language, yet they inter…
Théories intercontinentales: Voyages du comparatisme postcolonial
S'il est un courant qui a animé les sciences humaines au cours des dernières décennies, c'est bien celui des théories postcoloniales. Vaste nébuleuse discutée à travers le monde, leur essor doit beaucoup à quelques figures majeures qui ont en commun d'enseigner la littérature anglaise et comparée dans des universités anglo-saxonnes, principalement nord-américaines, tout en étant originaires d'autres continents.Ce livre collectif explore l'inciden…
Man in motion: Kateb Yacine and the poetics of revolution
In her 2004 study of gender and sexuality Undoing Gender, Judith Butler examines the uneasy relationship between human rights discourses and certain oppressed minorities, and cites Fanon in order to call for the continued redefinition of the ‘human’ each time the category is invoked. This article seeks to explore this continued process of redefinition by returning to the period of decolonization, specifically by means of a detailed engagement wit…
Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression in Context
Anastasia Valassopoulos (2007) Routledge, London Anastasia Valassopoulos’s study sets itself the ambitious aim of wresting Arab women’s writing from some of the reductive frameworks that have hampe
Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism
Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism." Modern & Contemporary France, 20(1), pp. 130–131
Aimé Césaire and Postcolonial Humanism
Commentators on Aimé Césaire have noted that he oscillates between affirming the Martinican's belonging to the specific category of negritude on the one hand, and seeking to transcend that specificity in a celebration of universal humanity on the other. This article looks beyond this apparent contradiction, and interrogates how Césaire adapts his humanism through his very evocations of black identity and experience. Césaire upholds the notion of …
Postcolonial Eyes: Intercontinental Travel in Francophone African Literature, by Aedín Ní Loingsigh
Lyotard's Algeria: Experiments in Theory
This article explores the changing position of Lyotard's writing on Algeria within his corpus. The essays gathered together in La Guerre des Algériens: Ecrits 1956-63 (The Algerians' War: Texts 1956-63), and published much later in 1989, are certainly among his most overtly politically engaged. These pieces track the progress of the War of Independence from the early signs of unrest in 1952 to what Lyotard perceives as the divisive effects of FLN…
Imprisonment, freedom, and literary opacity in the work of Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar
In her astute study of contemporary Arab women writers, Anastasia Valassopoulos begins by noting the pitfalls of much existing criticism of writers such as El Saadawi and Djebar in the West. Citing Amal Amireh's article on the fraught history of the reception of El Saadawi in Egypt and in Europe, Valassopoulos comments that Arab women's literature tends to be seen as 'documentary', and this obscures the 'core issue of representation' as it is exp…
Understanding Postcolonialism
Foucault and Said: Colonial discourse and Orientalism
The work of Michel Foucault is a useful forerunner to postcolonial philosophy in its groundbreaking dissection of the relation between power and knowledge. The Subaltern Studies historians argue that both colonial and bourgeois elitist power structures are at work within historical writing on colonialism and nationalism in India, since the exclusion of the subaltern from his own history mirrors his economic and political subjugation. It is Foucau…
Shapes and Shadows: (Un)veiling the Immigrant in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
Derrida, Autobiography and Postcoloniality
The question of Derrida's relationship with postcolonial theory has for a long time been a fraught one. Some of the major postcolonial critics engage directly with Derrida's reflections on dissemination and excentricity, while others argue, on the contrary, that his mode of thinking is too abstract to tell us anything informative about the mechanics of colonial and neo-colonial oppression. This article responds to these postcolonial critics, and …
Francophone North African Literature
The study of francophone North African literature has witnessed something of a surge in popularity over the last twenty years. Although many of the richest and best-known literary works in French by North African writers were published in the lead-up to and aftermath of decolonization, criticism in this area has exploded in recent decades, in particular with the rise of postcolonial studies in the US and the UK. If, moreover, the end of the Frenc…
Spivak's ‘Echo’: Theorizing otherness and the space of response
On peut apprendre de la littérature à se méfier”: Writing and Doubt in the Contemporary Algerian Novel
In his study of the Maghrebian novel and decolonization, Le Roman maghrébin, Abdelkébir Khatibi clearly allies literature with revolution. Indeed, according to Khatibi, the mission of the novel at that time was to “exprimer le drame d'une société en crise” [“represent the drama of a society in crisis”] (11). Since the horrors of Algeria's “décennie noire,” however, and in particular in response to the war waged against liberal and francophone int…
Théories intercontinentales: Voyages du comparatisme postcolonial
S'il est un courant qui a animé les sciences humaines au cours des dernières décennies, c'est bien celui des théories postcoloniales. Vaste nébuleuse discutée à travers le monde, leur essor doit beaucoup à quelques figures majeures qui ont en commun d'enseigner la littérature anglaise et comparée dans des universités anglo-saxonnes, principalement nord-américaines, tout en étant originaires d'autres continents.Ce livre collectif explore l'inciden…
Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism
Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism." Modern & Contemporary France, 20(1), pp. 130–131
The Specific Plurality of Assia Djebar
Recent postcolonial criticism suffers from a sense of anxiety regarding the appropriate balance between cultural specificity and post-identitarian hybridity or ‘creolisation’. Thinkers differ in their understanding of the importance of identity, at times advocating that the affirmation of a particular subject position is the only means of resisting (neo)colonial domination, and at others asserting that a celebration of relationality and cultural …
The Specific Plurality of Assia Djebar
Recent postcolonial criticism suffers from a sense of anxiety regarding the appropriate balance between cultural specificity and post-identitarian hybridity or ‘creolisation’. Thinkers differ in their understanding of the importance of identity, at times advocating that the affirmation of a particular subject position is the only means of resisting (neo)colonial domination, and at others asserting that a celebration of relationality and cultural …
Feminism and the Question of ?Woman? in Assia Djebar's Vaste est la prison
This article analyzes the Algerian writer Assia Djebar's uncertain and ambiguous relationship with feminism. While her work is clearly preoccupied with women's experiences, the notion of a collective feminine identity remains a subject of contention, and female characters are frequently presented as both singular and elusive. In Vaste est la prison, the author sets out to trace a coherent genealogy of Algerian women, but the narrative at once hin…
Derrida, Autobiography and Postcoloniality
The question of Derrida's relationship with postcolonial theory has for a long time been a fraught one. Some of the major postcolonial critics engage directly with Derrida's reflections on dissemination and excentricity, while others argue, on the contrary, that his mode of thinking is too abstract to tell us anything informative about the mechanics of colonial and neo-colonial oppression. This article responds to these postcolonial critics, and …
The Politics of Literary Criticism: Nancy and Rushdie
Shapes and Shadows: (Un)veiling the Immigrant in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
Displacing Barthes: Self, Other and the Anxiety of Theory
This article explores the relationship between the other and the writing self in three of Barthes's works and shows how the anxious and changeable state of the ‘je’ unsettles conceptions of ‘theory’ and its analytical object. Barthes attempts to conceptualise cultural otherness in Mythologies, L'Empire des signes and Incidents, and, on one level, his fantasies of encounter serve to displace or unground the writing ‘self’. On another level, howeve…
Spivak's ‘Echo’: Theorizing otherness and the space of response
Encontres méditerranéennes: Littératures et cultures France-Maghreb , by Mireille Rosello
Consuming Autobiographies: Reading and Writing the Self in Post-War France (review)
Reviewed by: Consuming Autobiographies: Reading and Writing the Self in Post-War France Jane Hiddleston (bio) Claire Boyle. Consuming Autobiographies: Reading and Writing the Self in Post-War France. London: Modern Humanities Research Association/ Maney, 2007. 176 pp. ISBN 978-1-9059-8110-6, $79.50. Claire Boyle’s Consuming Autobiographies analyzes and participates in prevalent recent debates on life writing, and offers thoughtful and original re…
Understanding Postcolonialism
Foucault and Said: Colonial discourse and Orientalism
The work of Michel Foucault is a useful forerunner to postcolonial philosophy in its groundbreaking dissection of the relation between power and knowledge. The Subaltern Studies historians argue that both colonial and bourgeois elitist power structures are at work within historical writing on colonialism and nationalism in India, since the exclusion of the subaltern from his own history mirrors his economic and political subjugation. It is Foucau…
Decolonization, community, nationalism: Gandhi, Nandy and the Subaltern Studies Collective
If Fanon and Sartre's writing on colonial Manichaeism, emergent nationalism and the new humanism is clearly directed against French colonialism in Algeria, Africa and the Caribbean, then the undoing of British colonialism required, at least for the major Indian anti-colonial thinkers, a rather different form of critique. French colonialism, in particular in Algeria, promoted the assimilation of the foreign territory to French control and to Frenc…
Aimé Césaire and Postcolonial Humanism
Commentators on Aimé Césaire have noted that he oscillates between affirming the Martinican's belonging to the specific category of negritude on the one hand, and seeking to transcend that specificity in a celebration of universal humanity on the other. This article looks beyond this apparent contradiction, and interrogates how Césaire adapts his humanism through his very evocations of black identity and experience. Césaire upholds the notion of …
Postcolonial Eyes: Intercontinental Travel in Francophone African Literature, by Aedín Ní Loingsigh
Lyotard's Algeria: Experiments in Theory
This article explores the changing position of Lyotard's writing on Algeria within his corpus. The essays gathered together in La Guerre des Algériens: Ecrits 1956-63 (The Algerians' War: Texts 1956-63), and published much later in 1989, are certainly among his most overtly politically engaged. These pieces track the progress of the War of Independence from the early signs of unrest in 1952 to what Lyotard perceives as the divisive effects of FLN…
Imprisonment, freedom, and literary opacity in the work of Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar
In her astute study of contemporary Arab women writers, Anastasia Valassopoulos begins by noting the pitfalls of much existing criticism of writers such as El Saadawi and Djebar in the West. Citing Amal Amireh's article on the fraught history of the reception of El Saadawi in Egypt and in Europe, Valassopoulos comments that Arab women's literature tends to be seen as 'documentary', and this obscures the 'core issue of representation' as it is exp…
Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism
Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism." Modern & Contemporary France, 20(1), pp. 130–131
Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression in Context
Anastasia Valassopoulos (2007) Routledge, London Anastasia Valassopoulos’s study sets itself the ambitious aim of wresting Arab women’s writing from some of the reductive frameworks that have hampe
Man in motion: Kateb Yacine and the poetics of revolution
In her 2004 study of gender and sexuality Undoing Gender, Judith Butler examines the uneasy relationship between human rights discourses and certain oppressed minorities, and cites Fanon in order to call for the continued redefinition of the ‘human’ each time the category is invoked. This article seeks to explore this continued process of redefinition by returning to the period of decolonization, specifically by means of a detailed engagement wit…
Understanding Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism offers challenging and provocative ways of thinking about colonial and neocolonial power, about self and other, and about the discourses that perpetuate postcolonial inequality and violence. Much of the seminal work in postcolonialism has been shaped by currents in philosophy, notably Marxism and ethics. "Understanding Postcolonialism" examines the philosophy of postcolonialism in order to reveal the often conflicting systems of t…
Travelling Poetry’: Text as Migrant in Amin Maalouf's Samarcande
In his celebrated essay ‘Travelling Theory’, Edward Said evokes the dynamic migration of ideas between cultures and epochs and the resulting, continual production of new theories out of the transformation of the old. Describing the distinct stages of a text’s journey, he tracks the process of departure from a point of origin, the distance covered, the conditions and practices encountered by the theory or idea at its destination, and ‘the now full…
Decolonising the Intellectual: Politics, Culture, and Humanism at the End of the French Empire
Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to the decolonisation were faced with an impossible dilemma. How could they redefine their culture, and the ‘humanity’ they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking by which they were formed? Figures such as Senghor, C©♭saire, Fanon, Amrouche, Feraoun and Kateb were all educated, indeed immersed, in French culture and language, yet they inter…
Théories intercontinentales: Voyages du comparatisme postcolonial
S'il est un courant qui a animé les sciences humaines au cours des dernières décennies, c'est bien celui des théories postcoloniales. Vaste nébuleuse discutée à travers le monde, leur essor doit beaucoup à quelques figures majeures qui ont en commun d'enseigner la littérature anglaise et comparée dans des universités anglo-saxonnes, principalement nord-américaines, tout en étant originaires d'autres continents.Ce livre collectif explore l'inciden…
C ésaire, A imé (1913–2008)
Aimé Césaire was a Martinican poet and politician and one of the founding fathers of the negritude movement. He is best known for his epic poem Notebook of a Return to My Native Land , an extraordinarily eloquent work in which he denounces the evils of colonialism and the slave trade in the Antilles, and envisions the liberation of both black people and humanity more broadly from oppression. Césaire was also for fifty years the Mayor of Fort‐de‐F…
On peut apprendre de la littérature à se méfier”: Writing and Doubt in the Contemporary Algerian Novel
In his study of the Maghrebian novel and decolonization, Le Roman maghrébin, Abdelkébir Khatibi clearly allies literature with revolution. Indeed, according to Khatibi, the mission of the novel at that time was to “exprimer le drame d'une société en crise” [“represent the drama of a society in crisis”] (11). Since the horrors of Algeria's “décennie noire,” however, and in particular in response to the war waged against liberal and francophone int…
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