Leslie Barnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Barnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnes |
| SIGNATURE | BARNES L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sex Work in Southeast Asia
Studies literary and cinematic representations of sex work in Cambodia and Vietnam to rethink claims about the ‘truth’ of sex work Reveals different dimensions of the sex industry broadly conceived (i.e., sex work, sex trafficking, sex tourism, brokered marriage) and the often-overlapping forms of physical and emotional labour that constitute such work (e.g., sexual acts, filial care) Examines sites of exchange primarily between France, Cambodia,…
Reckoning with Forced Marriage in the Era of #MeToo
Focused on the experience and legacies of the Khmer Rouge marriage policy, this essay examines Cambodia’s culture of silence surrounding gender-based violence in the era of #MeToo and highlights a set of cultural responses that confront silence, countering it with a multifaceted mode of expression that aims to unite survivors across communities, generations, and experiences. Spanning a range of media, including documentary cinema, the plastic art…
Introduction
White Métisse
Exposed
This essay examines the recent scandal that engulfed the Cambodian anti-trafficking activist, Somaly Mam, who was accused of fabricating tales of abduction and prostitution in her memoir, Le Silence de l'innocence (2005). In my reading of Mam's memoir, I focus on the tropes of silence and voice in the narrative as well as in the context of its initial reception and eventual denunciation in order to offer some preliminary thoughts on the appeal an…
Linda Lê, On Writing and Not Writing
Linda Lê has noted that writing shapes her identity more than any origins or affiliations, a knowledge which she claims allows her to occupy with ease the illegitimate spaces between homeland and adopted country, between belonging and unbelonging. But Lê’s work regularly stages the encounter between writing and not writing – juxtaposing the writer and the blank page, inspiration and silence – and figures the act of writing as a symbiotic relation…
Introduction
Un monde perdu? Fétiche, Nostalgie et “l’espace quelconque” de Trần Anh Hùng
Le rythme des films de Trần Anh Hùng se définit par des rapports subtils d’accélération et de ralentissement qui élaborent, surtout dans le contexte des films portant sur son pays natal, une composition audio-visuelle large et ouverte qui présente son objet de plusieurs points de vue à la fois. Dans cet essai, nous nous proposons d’examiner la recherche de la simultanéité chez Trần Anh Hùng en étudiant la figure de la prostituée dans son film Cyc…
Objects of pleasure
Prostitution in contemporary Cambodia is historically linked to the violence of the Khmer Rouge regime and the degradation of Cambodian society. And yet, while other attempts at official reconciliation have been made, prostitution remains largely shrouded in silence. Rithy Panh’s 2007 documentary, Le Papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise, counters this silence by focusing on a group of prostitutes in Phnom Penh, seeking not only to give them vo…
Truth, Trauma, Treachery
Truth, Trauma, Treachery:Camille Laurens v. Marie Darrieussecq Leslie Barnes (bio) In 2007, shortly after the publication of Marie Darrieussecq’s Tom est mort, a first-person novel recounting a woman’s despair after the sudden death of her young son, Camille Laurens published a scathing article in La Revue littéraire in which she accused Darrieussecq of “une sorte de plagiat psychique” (“Syndrome” 4). In 1995, Laurens had published Philippe, a wo…
Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature
Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies—their cultures, languages, and people—and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting from the premise that neither cultural identity nor cultural production can be pure or homogenous, Leslie Barnes initiates a new discourse on the French…
Cinema as Cultural Translation
This article examines Trẩn Anh Hùng's Cyclo (1995) as a work of cinematic autoethnography, that is, as a record of Vietnamese culture reflected not in the "objective" detailing of behavior but in a creative assemblage, or montage, of cultural codes. After addressing the question of fiction and ethnography, I examine the film's formal translation of the verbal and nonverbal signs that traditional ethnographic approaches would conserve in written f…
Introduction
Objects of pleasure
Prostitution in contemporary Cambodia is historically linked to the violence of the Khmer Rouge regime and the degradation of Cambodian society. And yet, while other attempts at official reconciliation have been made, prostitution remains largely shrouded in silence. Rithy Panh’s 2007 documentary, Le Papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise, counters this silence by focusing on a group of prostitutes in Phnom Penh, seeking not only to give them vo…
Cinema as Cultural Translation
This article examines Trẩn Anh Hùng's Cyclo (1995) as a work of cinematic autoethnography, that is, as a record of Vietnamese culture reflected not in the "objective" detailing of behavior but in a creative assemblage, or montage, of cultural codes. After addressing the question of fiction and ethnography, I examine the film's formal translation of the verbal and nonverbal signs that traditional ethnographic approaches would conserve in written f…
Cinema as Cultural Translation
This article examines Trẩn Anh Hùng's Cyclo (1995) as a work of cinematic autoethnography, that is, as a record of Vietnamese culture reflected not in the "objective" detailing of behavior but in a creative assemblage, or montage, of cultural codes. After addressing the question of fiction and ethnography, I examine the film's formal translation of the verbal and nonverbal signs that traditional ethnographic approaches would conserve in written f…
Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature
Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies—their cultures, languages, and people—and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting from the premise that neither cultural identity nor cultural production can be pure or homogenous, Leslie Barnes initiates a new discourse on the French…
Objects of pleasure
Prostitution in contemporary Cambodia is historically linked to the violence of the Khmer Rouge regime and the degradation of Cambodian society. And yet, while other attempts at official reconciliation have been made, prostitution remains largely shrouded in silence. Rithy Panh’s 2007 documentary, Le Papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise, counters this silence by focusing on a group of prostitutes in Phnom Penh, seeking not only to give them vo…
Truth, Trauma, Treachery
Truth, Trauma, Treachery:Camille Laurens v. Marie Darrieussecq Leslie Barnes (bio) In 2007, shortly after the publication of Marie Darrieussecq’s Tom est mort, a first-person novel recounting a woman’s despair after the sudden death of her young son, Camille Laurens published a scathing article in La Revue littéraire in which she accused Darrieussecq of “une sorte de plagiat psychique” (“Syndrome” 4). In 1995, Laurens had published Philippe, a wo…
Un monde perdu? Fétiche, Nostalgie et “l’espace quelconque” de Trần Anh Hùng
Le rythme des films de Trần Anh Hùng se définit par des rapports subtils d’accélération et de ralentissement qui élaborent, surtout dans le contexte des films portant sur son pays natal, une composition audio-visuelle large et ouverte qui présente son objet de plusieurs points de vue à la fois. Dans cet essai, nous nous proposons d’examiner la recherche de la simultanéité chez Trần Anh Hùng en étudiant la figure de la prostituée dans son film Cyc…
Introduction
Exposed
This essay examines the recent scandal that engulfed the Cambodian anti-trafficking activist, Somaly Mam, who was accused of fabricating tales of abduction and prostitution in her memoir, Le Silence de l'innocence (2005). In my reading of Mam's memoir, I focus on the tropes of silence and voice in the narrative as well as in the context of its initial reception and eventual denunciation in order to offer some preliminary thoughts on the appeal an…
Linda Lê, On Writing and Not Writing
Linda Lê has noted that writing shapes her identity more than any origins or affiliations, a knowledge which she claims allows her to occupy with ease the illegitimate spaces between homeland and adopted country, between belonging and unbelonging. But Lê’s work regularly stages the encounter between writing and not writing – juxtaposing the writer and the blank page, inspiration and silence – and figures the act of writing as a symbiotic relation…
Introduction
White Métisse
Reckoning with Forced Marriage in the Era of #MeToo
Focused on the experience and legacies of the Khmer Rouge marriage policy, this essay examines Cambodia’s culture of silence surrounding gender-based violence in the era of #MeToo and highlights a set of cultural responses that confront silence, countering it with a multifaceted mode of expression that aims to unite survivors across communities, generations, and experiences. Spanning a range of media, including documentary cinema, the plastic art…
Sex Work in Southeast Asia
Studies literary and cinematic representations of sex work in Cambodia and Vietnam to rethink claims about the ‘truth’ of sex work Reveals different dimensions of the sex industry broadly conceived (i.e., sex work, sex trafficking, sex tourism, brokered marriage) and the often-overlapping forms of physical and emotional labour that constitute such work (e.g., sexual acts, filial care) Examines sites of exchange primarily between France, Cambodia,…
Art (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Silence (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (4 works)