Meera Atkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meera Atkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meera |
| FAMILY NAME | Atkinson |
| SIGNATURE | ATKINSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8326-0267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Witnessing, Trans-"Species" Trauma Testimony, and Sticky Wounds in Contemporary Australian Poetry
Literary trauma theory has traditionally been a humanist concern, and the concept of witnessing, so central to the theorization of trauma, has focused on human experience and relationships. This article stages an interdisciplinary intervention by conceptualizing trans-“species” trauma testimony as a literary encounter involving a double-layered witnessing; the human artist witnessing nonhuman animals’ witnessing to the failings and crises brought…
Australia is a crime scene
Sara Ahmed analyses the construction of the national ideal, conceiving of nationhood as a formation dependent on the stickiness of an ideal-image informed by complex individual and collective physic processes. In this article, I focus on the Narungga poet, artist, and scholar Natalie Harkin’s debut collection of poems, Dirty Words , through the lens of Ahmed’s work on the socialisation of affect to argue that Harkin’s poetics stage an interventio…
Transgenerational Trauma and Cyclical Haunting in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy
The poetics of trans-trauma' is my abbreviation for writing that embodies the familial transgenerational transmission of trauma and its relationship to cultural and collective operations of trauma and affect. Drawing primarily on Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy, this essay explores the poetics of what I call 'cyclical haunting'-a term that describes the way historic and social traumatic affect feeds into subjective and familial experience, and …
Strange Body Bedfellows
Écriture féminine (the 'feminine' and revolutionary writing posited by theorists such as Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva) and 'traumatic' writing have each been positioned as attempts to liberate the unconscious and speak the unspeakable. However, they don't necessarily amount to the same thing simply because they privilege the articulation of repressed material, taboo subjects or unconventional narrative. This article interrogates the notion of…
Witnessing, Trans-"Species" Trauma Testimony, and Sticky Wounds in Contemporary Australian Poetry
Literary trauma theory has traditionally been a humanist concern, and the concept of witnessing, so central to the theorization of trauma, has focused on human experience and relationships. This article stages an interdisciplinary intervention by conceptualizing trans-“species” trauma testimony as a literary encounter involving a double-layered witnessing; the human artist witnessing nonhuman animals’ witnessing to the failings and crises brought…
Australia is a crime scene
Sara Ahmed analyses the construction of the national ideal, conceiving of nationhood as a formation dependent on the stickiness of an ideal-image informed by complex individual and collective physic processes. In this article, I focus on the Narungga poet, artist, and scholar Natalie Harkin’s debut collection of poems, Dirty Words , through the lens of Ahmed’s work on the socialisation of affect to argue that Harkin’s poetics stage an interventio…
Strange Body Bedfellows
Écriture féminine (the 'feminine' and revolutionary writing posited by theorists such as Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva) and 'traumatic' writing have each been positioned as attempts to liberate the unconscious and speak the unspeakable. However, they don't necessarily amount to the same thing simply because they privilege the articulation of repressed material, taboo subjects or unconventional narrative. This article interrogates the notion of…
Transgenerational Trauma and Cyclical Haunting in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy
The poetics of trans-trauma' is my abbreviation for writing that embodies the familial transgenerational transmission of trauma and its relationship to cultural and collective operations of trauma and affect. Drawing primarily on Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy, this essay explores the poetics of what I call 'cyclical haunting'-a term that describes the way historic and social traumatic affect feeds into subjective and familial experience, and …
Australia is a crime scene
Sara Ahmed analyses the construction of the national ideal, conceiving of nationhood as a formation dependent on the stickiness of an ideal-image informed by complex individual and collective physic processes. In this article, I focus on the Narungga poet, artist, and scholar Natalie Harkin’s debut collection of poems, Dirty Words , through the lens of Ahmed’s work on the socialisation of affect to argue that Harkin’s poetics stage an interventio…
Witnessing, Trans-"Species" Trauma Testimony, and Sticky Wounds in Contemporary Australian Poetry
Literary trauma theory has traditionally been a humanist concern, and the concept of witnessing, so central to the theorization of trauma, has focused on human experience and relationships. This article stages an interdisciplinary intervention by conceptualizing trans-“species” trauma testimony as a literary encounter involving a double-layered witnessing; the human artist witnessing nonhuman animals’ witnessing to the failings and crises brought…
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