Antony Rowland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antony Rowland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antony |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowland |
| SIGNATURE | ROWLAND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6196-9662 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fiction as Testimony
This article explores the fraught relationship between the terms ‘fiction’, ‘creativity’, ‘literature’ and ‘testimony’ in Holocaust and trauma studies. It argues that the main challenge in reading witness literature is to read testimony as both factual and potentially fictional at the same time when no metatextual corroboration is available. This anxiety of testimony originates in some key texts in Holocaust and trauma studies: I analyse for the …
Reading Holocaust poetry: Singularity and Geoffrey Hill's 'September Song
During classes on an interdisciplinary module I taught for ten years, literature students sometimes pointed out to those from other disciplines that the reader needs the objective tools of close reading in order to understand Holocaust poems properly. Such a subjective/objective dichotomy actually demonstrates that non-specialists in the field may have something important to tell us about reading, as a potentially missed encounter in the classroo…
The Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the ground breaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing like literature and poetry, and its place in society. It visits testimony in relation to a range of critical developments, including the rise of Truth Commissions and the expl…
Culpability and the lyric in Tadeusz Borowski'sSelected Poems
This article argues that Tadeusz Borowski's poems have been unjustly neglected in Holocaust studies. One reason for this comprises Borowski's uncomfortable engagement with the culpability and complicity of former inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau, his rejection of the notion of the ‘sacred survivor’, and his intense distrust of lyrical forms in the context of the camps. Borowski's most striking (but unknown) poem written in Birkenau is ‘October Sky’:…
Reading the Female Perpetrator
The cultural visibility in Western Europe of female perpetrators outweighs their historical significance, and this essay deploys queer theory in order to account for this imbalance. Focusing on the spectacle of female perpetrators such as Irma Grese and Ilse Koch, the discussion utilises Judith Halberstam’s concept of female masculinity. Critics have often pointed to the way in which the Allied media focused on what was seen to be a pathological …
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Ganton Mount: (I.m. Willie Rowland, 1878–1941)
Gently Michael: (I.m. Mike Holt, 1954–2004)
Lésvos
Scallops
Mistle from 1900
Tony Harrison and The Holocaust
This book argues that Tony Harrison's poetry is barbaric. It revisits Theodor Adorno's apparent dismissal of post-Holocaust poetry as ‘impossible’ or ‘barbaric’. His statement is reinterpreted as opening up the possibility that the awkward and embarrassing poetics of writers such as Harrison might be re-evaluated as committed responses to the worst horrors of twentieth-century history. Most of the existing critical work on Harrison focuses on his…
The Engraver, the Chandler and the Trades Unionist: Reflections on the Grassroots Reading of Scripture
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The Engraver, the Chandler and the Trades Unionist: Reflections on the Grassroots Reading of Scripture
Mistle from 1900
Tony Harrison and The Holocaust
This book argues that Tony Harrison's poetry is barbaric. It revisits Theodor Adorno's apparent dismissal of post-Holocaust poetry as ‘impossible’ or ‘barbaric’. His statement is reinterpreted as opening up the possibility that the awkward and embarrassing poetics of writers such as Harrison might be re-evaluated as committed responses to the worst horrors of twentieth-century history. Most of the existing critical work on Harrison focuses on his…
Scallops
Lésvos
Ganton Mount: (I.m. Willie Rowland, 1878–1941)
Gently Michael: (I.m. Mike Holt, 1954–2004)
Cwm
Reading the Female Perpetrator
The cultural visibility in Western Europe of female perpetrators outweighs their historical significance, and this essay deploys queer theory in order to account for this imbalance. Focusing on the spectacle of female perpetrators such as Irma Grese and Ilse Koch, the discussion utilises Judith Halberstam’s concept of female masculinity. Critics have often pointed to the way in which the Allied media focused on what was seen to be a pathological …
Culpability and the lyric in Tadeusz Borowski'sSelected Poems
This article argues that Tadeusz Borowski's poems have been unjustly neglected in Holocaust studies. One reason for this comprises Borowski's uncomfortable engagement with the culpability and complicity of former inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau, his rejection of the notion of the ‘sacred survivor’, and his intense distrust of lyrical forms in the context of the camps. Borowski's most striking (but unknown) poem written in Birkenau is ‘October Sky’:…
The Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the ground breaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing like literature and poetry, and its place in society. It visits testimony in relation to a range of critical developments, including the rise of Truth Commissions and the expl…
Reading Holocaust poetry: Singularity and Geoffrey Hill's 'September Song
During classes on an interdisciplinary module I taught for ten years, literature students sometimes pointed out to those from other disciplines that the reader needs the objective tools of close reading in order to understand Holocaust poems properly. Such a subjective/objective dichotomy actually demonstrates that non-specialists in the field may have something important to tell us about reading, as a potentially missed encounter in the classroo…
Fiction as Testimony
This article explores the fraught relationship between the terms ‘fiction’, ‘creativity’, ‘literature’ and ‘testimony’ in Holocaust and trauma studies. It argues that the main challenge in reading witness literature is to read testimony as both factual and potentially fictional at the same time when no metatextual corroboration is available. This anxiety of testimony originates in some key texts in Holocaust and trauma studies: I analyse for the …
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