Barbara Harlow

Biographic Data

ID	3611534
NAME	Barbara Harlow
GIVEN NAMES	Barbara
FAMILY NAME	Harlow
SIGNATURE	HARLOW B
AFFILIATIONS	The University of Texas at Austin
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	75
TOTAL CITATIONS	21
AUTHOR COUNT	72
EDITOR COUNT	3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2020
H-INDEX	2

Sappers in the stacks: Colonial archives, land mines, and truth commissions
Open AccessBarbara HarlowCHAPTEREdward Said and the Work of the…2020
Looked Class, Talked Red: Towards a bio-bibliography of Ruth First
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2019Cited by: 1References: 2
This article includes material from a work-in-progress, Barbara Harlow's major book on South African writer and political activist, Ruth First, assassinated in 1982. Ruth First's own life followed many paths, intersecting along the way with several historical trajectories, national narratives that remain incomplete today, and political events and eventualities that are still being negotiated, contested and resisted. The author follows these paths…
The drone imprint: Literature in the age of UAVs
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2019Cited by: 1References: 6
This article is composed of the schema of Barbara Harlow's final but unfinished book project, The Drone Imprint: literature in the age of UAVs. Harlow had drafted a proposal, given a version of it as the keynote address at the South Asian Literature Association meeting at the University of Texas, Austin in 2016, and taught many of the materials in it as an undergraduate studies signature course. This piece draws on her proposal, expands it with n…
Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
Barbara HarlowCHAPTERRoutledge Companion to Literature…2018
This chapter outlines four critical collections that partially chronologize the twenty-first century third world approaches to international law (TWAIL) narrative: the Symposium Issue of Harvard International Law Journal , the 2006 special issue of Third World Quarterly on the relevance of international law to the Third World or the Global South, a special issue of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal on TWAIL after September 11, 2001, and the social rig…
Futures of Comparative Literature: Acla State of the Discipline Report
Dudley Andrews, Ursula K Heise et al.BOOKFutures of Comparative Literature2017Cited by: 3
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting-edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics a…
Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the racial logic of white vulnerability
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2017
Gaza 2014 and the ‘duty to investigate’: A review article
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2016
“Be it Resolved …”: Referenda on Recent Scholarship in the Israel–Palestine Conflict
Barbara Harlow, Barbara Harlow Barbara HarlowARTICLECultural Critique2015
The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela, Claim No Easy Victories: The legacy of Amilcar Cabral and Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2015
The General: The ordinary man who challenged Guantanamo and Sketching Guantanamo: court sketches of the military tribunals 2006-2013
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2015
My Name is Caterpillar: Corrie et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc
Barbara HarlowARTICLEBiography2014
According to Israeli Judge Oded Gershon’s opinion in Estate of Rachel Corrie v. The State of Israel in August 2012, Corrie’s death by Caterpillar bulldozer was an “unfortunate accident,” Rachel’s own fault: “Even when she saw the mound of earth moving towards her,” Gershon opined, “she did not move away. The accident was caused by the deceased.” This essay argues for a different verdict, and examines the several biographical narratives that compl…
Today is human rights day’: Ruth First, human rights and the United Nations
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2014References: 1
It is not well known that Ruth First found an opening to debates on the world stage by working as a consultant for the United Nations whilst she was still in South Africa and whilst in exile. The author describes the projects she was engaged on and her motivation in this work. She links Ruth's participation to the emergence of human rights discourse, seen as a means to condemn apartheid in South Africa, whilst also regarded sceptically
Whence? Whither? The Modern Arabic Literary Narrative: Some Hazarded Speculations
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLEInternational Journal Middle East…2014References: 2
Postwar Lebanon, Sufism, imperial translations, Hamlet, trials and atlases, city streets, literary cafés, and Tahrir Square: disorienting as these various themes might appear to be, they nonetheless entitle eight recent inquiries into contemporary—and precedent—directions of literary critical studies of the modern Arabic novel and their calculated revisions of, perhaps, another Arabic literary historical narrative that necessarily engages multige…
Apartheid or Not Apartheid? The Russell Tribunal on Palestine, South Africa Session, November 2011
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLELaw Culture and the Humanities2013Cited by: 2
Apartheid or not apartheid?: that was the question addressed by participants – both jurors and expert witnesses – in the third session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine over the course of its deliberations in Cape Town, South Africa, from the 5th to the 7th of November, 2011. Specifically, that is, the tribunal adherents were concerned to learn “whether Israel’s policy and certain practices affecting the Palestinian population in Israeli terri…
Translating Egypt's Revolution: The language of Tahrir
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2013
We Are All Zimbabweans Now: A novel and Freedom Never Rests: a novel of democracy in South Africa
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2013
Child Soldiers as “High-Profile Legal Subjects”
Barbara HarlowARTICLEEnglish Language Notes2012
Child soldiers have recently emerged as high-profile legal subjects, claimants with a set of rights all their own under international law, This same period has witnessed a proliferation of child soldier narratives in literary form. Through an analysis of Ken Saro-Wiwa's 1985 novel Sozaboy, Philip Joseph's article locates some of the characteristic features that define the fictional child soldier's subjectivity during the period just prior to lega…
‘The Geography and the Event’: Questions of Palestine and Their Eventual Jurisdiction
Barbara HarlowARTICLEInterventions2012
‘The Geography and the Event’ seeks to ‘misread’ (along the lines suggested by the volume's English translator) Mahmoud Darwish's Memory for Forgetfulness, the poet's memoir of the Israeli siege of Beirut in the summer of 1982, by way of comparison/contrast with the 2009 Goldstone Report (‘Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories’) on the Israeli three-week siege of Gaza (Operation Cast Lead) in late 2008–2009. Keywords: Darw…
From Flying Carpets to No-Fly Zones: Libya’s Elusive Revolution(s), According to Ruth First, Hisham Matar, and the International Criminal Court
Barbara HarlowARTICLEJournal of Arabic Literature2012
This article examines the complex and contested situation of Qadaffi’s Libya within a changing international order, from the 1969 revolution as narrated by South African historian and anti-apartheid activist Ruth First in Libya: The Elusive Revolution (1974) to its narrative reconstruction by exiled Libyan writer Hisham Matar in the semi-autobiographical novels In the Country of Men (2006) and Anatomy of a Disappearance (2011). Special attention …
Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2012
Edward Said: A legacy of emancipation and representation and Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History: modernity and the politics of exclusion since Ibn Khaldun
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2012
Extraordinary renditions’: Tales of Guantánamo, a review article
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2011
The opening of Guantánamo as a US detention centre in the initial phase of the ‘war on terror’ in January 2002 and its continuing existence almost a decade later have spawned a vast body of literature and cultural production: political commentary, personal accounts of detainees, memoirs, fiction, legal analysis, film, documentary, reconstruction, and so on. In this major review of Guantánamo literature, which foregrounds work by Moazzam Begg, Vic…
Public Spheres, Personal Papers, Pedagogical Practices: Ruth First’s Academic Postings to/ from Dar es Salaam and Maputo
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLEAfrica Development2011References: 5
This article proposes to consider, in particular, Ruth First’s work in her final years at the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique (UEM), with reference to her own biographical trajectory and towards a reconsideration of contemporary and subsequent developments in the institutional history of post-independence education: public spheres (the university), personal papers (the archive), and ped…
Everyday Dreams
Barbara HarlowARTICLEJournal of Palestine Studies2011
Guest Editors' Introduction
James H Cox, Jeremy Dean et al.ARTICLECR The New Centennial Review2010

Futures of Comparative Literature: Acla State of the Discipline Report
Dudley Andrews, Ursula K Heise et al.BOOKFutures of Comparative Literature2017Cited by: 3
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting-edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics a…
"Egyptian Intellectuals and the Debate on the "Normalization of Cultural Relations
Barbara HarlowARTICLECultural Critique1986Cited by: 3
However dominant a social system may be, the very meaning of its domination involves a limitation or selection of the activities it covers, so that by definition it cannot exhaust all social experience, which therefore always potentially contains space for alternative acts and alternative intentions which are not yet articulated as a social institution or even project. Raymond Williams, Politics and Letters
Apartheid or Not Apartheid? The Russell Tribunal on Palestine, South Africa Session, November 2011
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLELaw Culture and the Humanities2013Cited by: 2
Apartheid or not apartheid?: that was the question addressed by participants – both jurors and expert witnesses – in the third session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine over the course of its deliberations in Cape Town, South Africa, from the 5th to the 7th of November, 2011. Specifically, that is, the tribunal adherents were concerned to learn “whether Israel’s policy and certain practices affecting the Palestinian population in Israeli terri…
Speaking From The Dock
Barbara HarlowARTICLECallaloo1993Cited by: 2
Britain can be rather awkward about the sounds and voices it wants people to hear and when it wants them to be heard. Not everyone can appear on television and radio and those who can, are subject to fussy rules about what they can say, and, in what language. There are different rules when confronted with the British or RUC on the streets-though you still must be careful what language you speak. In Gough or Castlereagh Barracks they will try very…
From the Women's Prison: Third World Women's Narratives of Prison
Barbara HarlowARTICLEFeminist Studies1986Cited by: 2
When Mrs. Mallard, the heroine of Kate Chopin's rThe Story of an Hour, is informed of her husband's untimely death in a railroad disaster, she retreats, after a fit of abandoned weeping in her sister's embrace, into the solitude of her room. Here, in the privacy that the room offers, she repeats, not the grief her sister and her husband's friend might expect of her, but the muffled words, free, free! Between the moment when her husband's death is…
Looked Class, Talked Red: Towards a bio-bibliography of Ruth First
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2019Cited by: 1References: 2
This article includes material from a work-in-progress, Barbara Harlow's major book on South African writer and political activist, Ruth First, assassinated in 1982. Ruth First's own life followed many paths, intersecting along the way with several historical trajectories, national narratives that remain incomplete today, and political events and eventualities that are still being negotiated, contested and resisted. The author follows these paths…
The drone imprint: Literature in the age of UAVs
Open AccessBarbara HarlowARTICLERace & Class2019Cited by: 1References: 6
This article is composed of the schema of Barbara Harlow's final but unfinished book project, The Drone Imprint: literature in the age of UAVs. Harlow had drafted a proposal, given a version of it as the keynote address at the South Asian Literature Association meeting at the University of Texas, Austin in 2016, and taught many of the materials in it as an undergraduate studies signature course. This piece draws on her proposal, expands it with n…
Child and/or Soldier? From Resistance Movements to Human Rights Regiments
Barbara HarlowARTICLECR The New Centennial Review2010Cited by: 1
Research Article| March 01 2010 Child and/or Soldier? From Resistance Movements to Human Rights Regiments Barbara Harlow Barbara Harlow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2010) 10 (1): 195–215. https://doi.org/10.2307/41949686 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Harlow; Child and/or Soldier? From Resistance Movements to Hum…
"The "Kimberley Process: Literary Gems, Civil Wars, and Historical Resources
Barbara HarlowARTICLECR The New Centennial Review2003Cited by: 1References: 2
THE "KIMBERLEY PROCESS" NAMES THE FORMULA AGREED UPON—AND DISAGREED with—to determine the origin of diamonds on the world market and to create a "full-fledged, global diamond certification system." Why a certification system for these gems? Because what had come to be called "blood diamonds" and "conflict gems"—the minerals that were providing the financial support for Africa's "civil wars" and "ethnic conflicts"—were flooding the market and, wit…
Looked Class, Talked Red
Barbara HarlowARTICLEMeridians2002Cited by: 1
Research Article| September 01 2002 Looked Class, Talked Red: Sketches of Ruth First and Redlined Africa Barbara Harlow Barbara Harlow barbara harlow is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Resistance Literature (1986), Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention (1992), After Lives: Legacies of Revolutionary Writing (1996), and co-editor with Mia Car…
Redlined Africa: Ruth First'S Barrel of a Gun
Barbara HarlowARTICLEBiography2002Cited by: 1
The Barrel of a Gun is part and parcel of First's own story, her intellectual history as a South African communist and anti-apartheid activist who died in exile, a story that necessarily combines both biography and bibliography. This essay examines both the composition of the book--its research as told in First's correspondence at the time as well as the book's final draft--and its "after life"--in the reviews and debates it elicited on publicati…
Sappers in the Stacks: Colonial Archives, Land Mines, and Truth Commissions
Barbara HarlowARTICLEboundary 21998Cited by: 1
[Kip] had approached the villa on that night of the storm not out of curiosity about the music but because of a danger to the piano player. The retreating army often left pencil mines within musical instruments. Returning owners opened up pianos and lost their hands. People would revive the swing on a grandfather clock, and a glass bomb would blow out half a wall and whoever was nearby. He followed the noise of the piano, rushing up the hill with…
In the Golden Chariot Things Will Be Better
Salwa Bakr, Barbara HarlowARTICLEboundary 21992Cited by: 1
Aziza the Alexandrian is a prisoner in the women's prison in Egypt, serving a life sentence for the murder of her mother's husband. Aziza, the main character in Salwa Bakr's recent novel The Golden Chariot Won't Ascend to the Heavens (1991), assassinated the man who had seduced her following her mother's death, when, despite his apparent promises to Aziza, he took another woman as his new wife. Aziza, meanwhile, plans to leave the prison in a gol…
Mismār Goha: The Arab Challenge to Cultural Dependency
Barbara HarlowARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1988Cited by: 1
Research Article| January 01 1988 Mismār Goha: The Arab Challenge to Cultural Dependency Barbara Harlow Barbara Harlow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1988) 87 (1): 109–129. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-87-1-109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Harlow; Mismār Goha: The Arab Challenge to Cultural Dependency. South Atlan…