Natalie L Belisle
Biographic Data
| ID | 331621 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie L Belisle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie L |
| FAMILY NAME | Belisle |
| SIGNATURE | BELISLE N L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Passing Life, Playing Dead
This essay explores how the classic narrative of Haitian zombification is refashioned within a postcolonial Haitian-Dominican context as a passing narrative in Pedro Cabiya’s 2011 science fantasy novel Malas hierbas. In its depiction of a nameless zombie scientist who pretends to be a living being and successfully assimilates into the community of the living without detection, Cabiya’s text not only departs from the traditional zombie archetype. …
Literatura Nullius
This essay mines the concept of untranslatability in two texts by Eduardo Lalo: Los países invisibles and La inutilidad. The analysis interrogates the juridical implications of translation within the “world republic of letters,” which ostensibly accrues literary capital to texts produced within a particular national context. On this premise, Natalie L. Belisle argues that “untranslatability” designates the exclusion of texts originating in juridi…
Books
Passing Life, Playing Dead
This essay explores how the classic narrative of Haitian zombification is refashioned within a postcolonial Haitian-Dominican context as a passing narrative in Pedro Cabiya’s 2011 science fantasy novel Malas hierbas. In its depiction of a nameless zombie scientist who pretends to be a living being and successfully assimilates into the community of the living without detection, Cabiya’s text not only departs from the traditional zombie archetype. …
Books
Literatura Nullius
This essay mines the concept of untranslatability in two texts by Eduardo Lalo: Los países invisibles and La inutilidad. The analysis interrogates the juridical implications of translation within the “world republic of letters,” which ostensibly accrues literary capital to texts produced within a particular national context. On this premise, Natalie L. Belisle argues that “untranslatability” designates the exclusion of texts originating in juridi…
Passing Life, Playing Dead
This essay explores how the classic narrative of Haitian zombification is refashioned within a postcolonial Haitian-Dominican context as a passing narrative in Pedro Cabiya’s 2011 science fantasy novel Malas hierbas. In its depiction of a nameless zombie scientist who pretends to be a living being and successfully assimilates into the community of the living without detection, Cabiya’s text not only departs from the traditional zombie archetype. …
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work) · Cuban History and Society (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)