Carolyn Ownbey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Ownbey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Ownbey |
| SIGNATURE | OWNBEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0841-2280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pandemic Play
Musings on a shout in a stairwell
Culture and activism
For South African author Mongane Wally Serote, art and activism can only operate in tandem. In the 1970s and 1980s, Serote took leadership roles in revolutionary and anti-apartheid organizations and movements, and in his writing and in these activist roles he mobilizes the one as a means to achieve the ends of the other. In his novel To Every Birth Its Blood, he uses narrative to experiment with chronology and perspective, and explore the physica…
Not guilty in the sense of the indictment
In Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt thinks through mid-century totalitarian movements in relation to statelessness and human rights. According to Arendt, statelessness and rightlessness correspond: it is only through inclusion and participation in a human community that one possesses any rights at all. Controversially, Arendt’s text demonstrates that, by virtue of totalitarian conditioning, Eichmann himself w…
Like photographs of ghosts”
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) heard its first testimony in April of 1996. Two years later, in 1998, the first volume of the report of the commission was published. While it aims to be a document representing closure in terms of the history of apartheid, the TRC report is rife with gaps and omissions across the long history of apartheid. Approaching this history and its legacy in literary prose, Ivan Vladislavić’s Dou…
The Literary Imagination
Like photographs of ghosts”
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) heard its first testimony in April of 1996. Two years later, in 1998, the first volume of the report of the commission was published. While it aims to be a document representing closure in terms of the history of apartheid, the TRC report is rife with gaps and omissions across the long history of apartheid. Approaching this history and its legacy in literary prose, Ivan Vladislavić’s Dou…
Culture and activism
For South African author Mongane Wally Serote, art and activism can only operate in tandem. In the 1970s and 1980s, Serote took leadership roles in revolutionary and anti-apartheid organizations and movements, and in his writing and in these activist roles he mobilizes the one as a means to achieve the ends of the other. In his novel To Every Birth Its Blood, he uses narrative to experiment with chronology and perspective, and explore the physica…
The Literary Imagination
Like photographs of ghosts”
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) heard its first testimony in April of 1996. Two years later, in 1998, the first volume of the report of the commission was published. While it aims to be a document representing closure in terms of the history of apartheid, the TRC report is rife with gaps and omissions across the long history of apartheid. Approaching this history and its legacy in literary prose, Ivan Vladislavić’s Dou…
Not guilty in the sense of the indictment
In Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt thinks through mid-century totalitarian movements in relation to statelessness and human rights. According to Arendt, statelessness and rightlessness correspond: it is only through inclusion and participation in a human community that one possesses any rights at all. Controversially, Arendt’s text demonstrates that, by virtue of totalitarian conditioning, Eichmann himself w…
Culture and activism
For South African author Mongane Wally Serote, art and activism can only operate in tandem. In the 1970s and 1980s, Serote took leadership roles in revolutionary and anti-apartheid organizations and movements, and in his writing and in these activist roles he mobilizes the one as a means to achieve the ends of the other. In his novel To Every Birth Its Blood, he uses narrative to experiment with chronology and perspective, and explore the physica…
Pandemic Play
Musings on a shout in a stairwell
Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works)