Ashleigh Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashleigh Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashleigh |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6207-3067 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Communal Intellection and Individualism in the African Novel
If the book has a grand claim, it is that African intellectual traditions are rich in work where a separate space for the thinker corresponds to a separate space for the thought-where ideas, that is, are granted a force and even ontology of their own by a turn to narrative designs that advance individual integrity, as against porosity or dissolution. 1 The advancement of individual integrity as an alternative to the dissolution that concludes so …
The Diary of a Country in Crisis
Zimbabwe has an extensive censorship infrastructure that operates both formally, through the board of censors, and informally, through intimidation by the police and other state and civil players. The use and misuse of censorship legislation in the country has made for a chaotic situation in which misinterpretations of the law have been widely used to justify police crackdowns, arrests and destruction of art, literature and other cultural forms. …
Afropolitan Style and Unusable Global Spaces
African Street Literature
This paper begins with the assertion that world literature is in danger of becoming a closed system, whereby literature anticipates its critical reception in both its form and content. Emergent African literary forms are often excluded from the field of world literature precisely because they demand methods of reading that challenge this anticipatory logic. We refer to this emergent literature circulating in African urban spaces as "African stree…
The island is not a story in itself”
This paper makes two related claims: first I argue that the trope of the island works as a hieroglyph of the apartheid state’s disavowal of Robben Island and all that it represented; and secondly, I illustrate how the texts under analysis also configure the apartheid state as the disavowed of the international community. To do this, I discuss Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona’s The Island (1973) and J.M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986), both of w…
Plastic form and the extro- and emergent versions of Christopher Mlalazi'sRunning with Mother
This paper attempts to forge new methods for reading emergent literary strategies and forms in contemporary African fiction. Arguing that the novel is no longer the most efficient literary form in environments of radically asymmetrical power and uneven and unequal development, this paper considers the formal strategies of various versions of a story by Zimbabwean writer Christopher Mlalazi. Mlalazi’s story appeared first as a short story on a Swe…
The Fathers’ Dark Triumph
This paper interrogates the work performed by the figure of the terrorist in J.M. Coetzee’s novel The Master of Petersburg (1994), a fictionalised account of the events prompting Fyodor Dostoevsky’s writing of the novel Demons. It does so to illustrate the waning of the cultural signs of revolt and revolution in the ways that they were valorised by the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. The idea that writing is able to enact a revolt…
Unruly pedagogies; migratory interventions
This special edition of Critical Arts arose from the interchange between affect and institution. We wagered that Mieke Bal's (2007a: 23) notion of a 'migratory aesthetics' might be a productive way of revisiting the cultural studies classroom as a site of 'sentient engagement' across disciplinary and other boundary lines. For Bal, sentient engagement, along its embodied and affective dimensions, is the constitutive condition of the aesthetic, sin…
Spectral Atlantic
The Spectral Atlantic : Embodiment and Haunting in Hershini Bhana Young's Haunting, Text and the Black Diasporic Body
Toni Morrison and Yvonne Vera
This paper reflects on the ways in which selected fictional works by Yvonne Vera and by Toni Morrison explore trauma and the spaces in which trauma is (historically and culturally) healed. The paper negotiates some of the complexities of the relationship between trauma and music in certain texts through a method of reading and argumentation articulated here by means of the term fugue.This modality of reading is employed because both the musical a…
Speaking the “truth by dissembling”
The following paper is an adapted version of the introduction to a chapter, entitled "Symbolic Orphans: the Politics of the 'Father‐Tongue' in [Toni Morrison's] Tar Baby", from my current doctoral thesis. The fundamental premise underlying this chapter is that Morrison, in her text Tar Baby, uses the complex history of the Tar‐Baby tales, and the trickster‐figure of those tales, in order to trace the cultural origin of African‐American people, to…
The Diary of a Country in Crisis
Zimbabwe has an extensive censorship infrastructure that operates both formally, through the board of censors, and informally, through intimidation by the police and other state and civil players. The use and misuse of censorship legislation in the country has made for a chaotic situation in which misinterpretations of the law have been widely used to justify police crackdowns, arrests and destruction of art, literature and other cultural forms. …
African Street Literature
This paper begins with the assertion that world literature is in danger of becoming a closed system, whereby literature anticipates its critical reception in both its form and content. Emergent African literary forms are often excluded from the field of world literature precisely because they demand methods of reading that challenge this anticipatory logic. We refer to this emergent literature circulating in African urban spaces as "African stree…
Communal Intellection and Individualism in the African Novel
If the book has a grand claim, it is that African intellectual traditions are rich in work where a separate space for the thinker corresponds to a separate space for the thought-where ideas, that is, are granted a force and even ontology of their own by a turn to narrative designs that advance individual integrity, as against porosity or dissolution. 1 The advancement of individual integrity as an alternative to the dissolution that concludes so …
The island is not a story in itself”
This paper makes two related claims: first I argue that the trope of the island works as a hieroglyph of the apartheid state’s disavowal of Robben Island and all that it represented; and secondly, I illustrate how the texts under analysis also configure the apartheid state as the disavowed of the international community. To do this, I discuss Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona’s The Island (1973) and J.M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986), both of w…
Plastic form and the extro- and emergent versions of Christopher Mlalazi'sRunning with Mother
This paper attempts to forge new methods for reading emergent literary strategies and forms in contemporary African fiction. Arguing that the novel is no longer the most efficient literary form in environments of radically asymmetrical power and uneven and unequal development, this paper considers the formal strategies of various versions of a story by Zimbabwean writer Christopher Mlalazi. Mlalazi’s story appeared first as a short story on a Swe…
Unruly pedagogies; migratory interventions
This special edition of Critical Arts arose from the interchange between affect and institution. We wagered that Mieke Bal's (2007a: 23) notion of a 'migratory aesthetics' might be a productive way of revisiting the cultural studies classroom as a site of 'sentient engagement' across disciplinary and other boundary lines. For Bal, sentient engagement, along its embodied and affective dimensions, is the constitutive condition of the aesthetic, sin…
Toni Morrison and Yvonne Vera
This paper reflects on the ways in which selected fictional works by Yvonne Vera and by Toni Morrison explore trauma and the spaces in which trauma is (historically and culturally) healed. The paper negotiates some of the complexities of the relationship between trauma and music in certain texts through a method of reading and argumentation articulated here by means of the term fugue.This modality of reading is employed because both the musical a…
Speaking the “truth by dissembling”
The following paper is an adapted version of the introduction to a chapter, entitled "Symbolic Orphans: the Politics of the 'Father‐Tongue' in [Toni Morrison's] Tar Baby", from my current doctoral thesis. The fundamental premise underlying this chapter is that Morrison, in her text Tar Baby, uses the complex history of the Tar‐Baby tales, and the trickster‐figure of those tales, in order to trace the cultural origin of African‐American people, to…
Toni Morrison and Yvonne Vera
This paper reflects on the ways in which selected fictional works by Yvonne Vera and by Toni Morrison explore trauma and the spaces in which trauma is (historically and culturally) healed. The paper negotiates some of the complexities of the relationship between trauma and music in certain texts through a method of reading and argumentation articulated here by means of the term fugue.This modality of reading is employed because both the musical a…
Spectral Atlantic
The Spectral Atlantic : Embodiment and Haunting in Hershini Bhana Young's Haunting, Text and the Black Diasporic Body
Unruly pedagogies; migratory interventions
This special edition of Critical Arts arose from the interchange between affect and institution. We wagered that Mieke Bal's (2007a: 23) notion of a 'migratory aesthetics' might be a productive way of revisiting the cultural studies classroom as a site of 'sentient engagement' across disciplinary and other boundary lines. For Bal, sentient engagement, along its embodied and affective dimensions, is the constitutive condition of the aesthetic, sin…
The Fathers’ Dark Triumph
This paper interrogates the work performed by the figure of the terrorist in J.M. Coetzee’s novel The Master of Petersburg (1994), a fictionalised account of the events prompting Fyodor Dostoevsky’s writing of the novel Demons. It does so to illustrate the waning of the cultural signs of revolt and revolution in the ways that they were valorised by the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. The idea that writing is able to enact a revolt…
The island is not a story in itself”
This paper makes two related claims: first I argue that the trope of the island works as a hieroglyph of the apartheid state’s disavowal of Robben Island and all that it represented; and secondly, I illustrate how the texts under analysis also configure the apartheid state as the disavowed of the international community. To do this, I discuss Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona’s The Island (1973) and J.M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986), both of w…
Plastic form and the extro- and emergent versions of Christopher Mlalazi'sRunning with Mother
This paper attempts to forge new methods for reading emergent literary strategies and forms in contemporary African fiction. Arguing that the novel is no longer the most efficient literary form in environments of radically asymmetrical power and uneven and unequal development, this paper considers the formal strategies of various versions of a story by Zimbabwean writer Christopher Mlalazi. Mlalazi’s story appeared first as a short story on a Swe…
Afropolitan Style and Unusable Global Spaces
African Street Literature
This paper begins with the assertion that world literature is in danger of becoming a closed system, whereby literature anticipates its critical reception in both its form and content. Emergent African literary forms are often excluded from the field of world literature precisely because they demand methods of reading that challenge this anticipatory logic. We refer to this emergent literature circulating in African urban spaces as "African stree…
The Diary of a Country in Crisis
Zimbabwe has an extensive censorship infrastructure that operates both formally, through the board of censors, and informally, through intimidation by the police and other state and civil players. The use and misuse of censorship legislation in the country has made for a chaotic situation in which misinterpretations of the law have been widely used to justify police crackdowns, arrests and destruction of art, literature and other cultural forms. …
Communal Intellection and Individualism in the African Novel
If the book has a grand claim, it is that African intellectual traditions are rich in work where a separate space for the thinker corresponds to a separate space for the thought-where ideas, that is, are granted a force and even ontology of their own by a turn to narrative designs that advance individual integrity, as against porosity or dissolution. 1 The advancement of individual integrity as an alternative to the dissolution that concludes so …
Art (7 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works)