Shirley Jordan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3745819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shirley Jordan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shirley |
| FAMILY NAME | Jordan |
| SIGNATURE | JORDAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0674-8998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ambivalence as agency in Camille Reynaud’s Et par endroits ça fait des nœuds (2021)
This article examines ambivalence and agency in contemporary life writing through focusing on an autopathography which highlights these features of self-narrative in original ways while also holding them in unusual tension. Camille Reynaud’s first publication, Et par endroits ça fait des nœuds (2021), addresses the abrupt loss of selfhood resulting from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm she experienced four years prior to publication. It draws the rea…
Old Age in Simone de Beauvoir and Martine Franck
This article explores connections between Beauvoir’s work on aging and the photographic study of older people by humanist photographer Martine Franck. It traces entanglements between Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age and Franck’s photobook Time to Grow Old , focusing especially on differences related to gender and aging and on epistemologies of aging research. The author argues that the projects on aging by Beauvoir and Franck illuminate each other in…
Thoughts on Place
in the author's home at Cergy-Pontoise. 1 Our intention was to use an overarching theme -that of place -as a guide or fil rouge allowing us to garner Ernaux's current thoughts and feelings on a range of subjects that have played a pivotal role throughout her writings and her life.In a three-way conversation that lasted throughout the afternoon, we explored the significant places and environments that recur in Ernaux's writings, from the café-épic…
Introduction. Ageism, Ageing, and Old Age in Contemporary French Culture
Journal Article Introduction. Ageism, Ageing, and Old Age in Contemporary French Culture: Critical Age Studies in a French Context Get access Shirley Jordan Shirley Jordan Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, knad112, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knad112 Published: 21 June 2023
Ageing and Care in Agnès Varda
This article analyses selected works of Agnès Varda as original contributions to cultural gerontology. It focuses on Varda's pronounced interest in older people throughout her career and explores how, in experimental portraits and self-portraits, she approaches ageing by harnessing surprising devices — temporal, spatial, aesthetic, haptic, and affective — to challenge ageism and assumptions of disability, and to encourage identification. The arti…
Disorderly eating in contemporary women’s writing
The Introduction presents the rationale for this special issue, and engages with key scholarship in the field. It makes the case for considering eating disorders in the wider context of ‘disorderly eating’, both as a sociological phenomenon and a recurrent literary concern, granted the importance of ordering and regulating food consumption for community cohesion. It is particularly concerned to ask what is, and what is not, specific about the con…
‘Writing/Reading for Change
Food, disorder, and disgust in Marie NDiaye
This article argues that food, food preparation and disorderly eating are core concerns in Marie NDiaye’s writing. The author’s detailed depiction of protagonists’ unusual relationships to food is shown to contribute to the complex and enigmatic ethical matter of her texts. Through analysis of scenes of disorderly eating in three novels, Mon Cœur à l’étroit (2007), Ladivine (2013), and La Cheffe, roman d’une cuisinière (2016), the article shows h…
Voicing Voluntary Childlessness
Women’s lives in contemporary French and Francophone literature
Women’s lives in contemporary French and Francophone literature." Modern & Contemporary France, 26(1), pp. 101–102
Marie NDiaye
Washes and Hues
This article analyses Marie NDiaye's experimentation with colour and colour values, and argues that she sets out to unsettle the way we think about colour. For the main part colour - and indeed colour blindness - in the author's work have been explored through scrutiny of her progressively more detailed attentiveness to experiences and perceptions of skin colour in contemporary France. Yet colour is deployed and investigated in numerous distincti…
Performance in Sophie Calle’s Prenez soin de vous
This article analyses performance in the work of French project artist Sophie Calle, focusing in detail on the major installation Prenez soin de vous (2007). It argues that performance, which is key to debates about postmodern self-narrative and central to an understanding of Calle’s corpus from the outset, is taken into new terrain with this project, since its scope, variety and ambitious collective dimension become ways not of scrutinising but …
Autofiction in the Feminine
Spatial and Emotional Limits in Installation Art
Reconfiguring the Public and the Private
This article analyses the public and the private in the work of Christine Angot with a particular focus on her 2006 text Rendez-vous and an emphasis on her articulation of intimacy, exposure and vulnerability. Angot is first contextualised through broad analysis of the trend in France for radically self-revelatory cultural production by women, which reconfigures the public/private divide and brings us to consider it in postfeminist perspective. W…
Exhibiting Pain
This article focuses on the relationship between the subjective and the collective in the work of project artist Sophie Calle through a ‘virtual visit’ to her mixed-media installation Douleur exquise (1984–2003). Through detailed analysis of the intricate systems of narrative in and between the installation's three parts, it assesses the contribution of Calle's project to two phenomena which are of central importance to cultural production in Fra…
Ponge, résolument
Sous la direction de Jean-Marie Gleize. Lyon, ENS Éditions, 2004. 210 pp. Pb €33.00. This scholarly and energetic volume of essays is a rich contribution to the ongoing study of Francis Ponge. It presents in their entirety the proceedings of a 1999 international colloquium which set out to engage afresh with Ponge — and with the history of Ponge studies — upon the centenary of the poet's birth. Its purposeful title expresses the ethical and aesth…
Ethnographic Encounters
This paper explores some of the ways in which the contested concept of cultural translation has been interpreted in anthropology. It describes what cultural translation now involves for practitioners who research and teach within interdisciplinary frameworks - particularly those frameworks constituted by the interface between anthropology and modern language learning. A variety of ethnographic encounters are examined, ranging from ethnography in …
Writing the Other, Writing the Self
This article examines the theoretical and methodological concerns of the new ethnographic writing, analysing writing practices of both professional anthropologists and student ethnographers who undertake ethnographic research as part of a modern languages degree course in universities in the UK. The emphasis is on qualitative writing as a heuristic process, on self-reflexivity in the text, and on self-transformation through writing. A selective d…
Moving Still Life
Journal Article MOVING STILL LIFE: JEAN-DANIEL POLLET'S FRANCIS PONGE Get access SHIRLEY ANN JORDAN SHIRLEY ANN JORDAN OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIV, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 479–492, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIV.4.479 Published: 01 October 2000
The Construction of the Female in the Texts of Francis Ponge
Ethnographic Encounters
This paper explores some of the ways in which the contested concept of cultural translation has been interpreted in anthropology. It describes what cultural translation now involves for practitioners who research and teach within interdisciplinary frameworks - particularly those frameworks constituted by the interface between anthropology and modern language learning. A variety of ethnographic encounters are examined, ranging from ethnography in …
Writing the Other, Writing the Self
This article examines the theoretical and methodological concerns of the new ethnographic writing, analysing writing practices of both professional anthropologists and student ethnographers who undertake ethnographic research as part of a modern languages degree course in universities in the UK. The emphasis is on qualitative writing as a heuristic process, on self-reflexivity in the text, and on self-transformation through writing. A selective d…
Marie NDiaye
Autofiction in the Feminine
Exhibiting Pain
This article focuses on the relationship between the subjective and the collective in the work of project artist Sophie Calle through a ‘virtual visit’ to her mixed-media installation Douleur exquise (1984–2003). Through detailed analysis of the intricate systems of narrative in and between the installation's three parts, it assesses the contribution of Calle's project to two phenomena which are of central importance to cultural production in Fra…
The Construction of the Female in the Texts of Francis Ponge
Moving Still Life
Journal Article MOVING STILL LIFE: JEAN-DANIEL POLLET'S FRANCIS PONGE Get access SHIRLEY ANN JORDAN SHIRLEY ANN JORDAN OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIV, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 479–492, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIV.4.479 Published: 01 October 2000
Writing the Other, Writing the Self
This article examines the theoretical and methodological concerns of the new ethnographic writing, analysing writing practices of both professional anthropologists and student ethnographers who undertake ethnographic research as part of a modern languages degree course in universities in the UK. The emphasis is on qualitative writing as a heuristic process, on self-reflexivity in the text, and on self-transformation through writing. A selective d…
Ethnographic Encounters
This paper explores some of the ways in which the contested concept of cultural translation has been interpreted in anthropology. It describes what cultural translation now involves for practitioners who research and teach within interdisciplinary frameworks - particularly those frameworks constituted by the interface between anthropology and modern language learning. A variety of ethnographic encounters are examined, ranging from ethnography in …
Ponge, résolument
Sous la direction de Jean-Marie Gleize. Lyon, ENS Éditions, 2004. 210 pp. Pb €33.00. This scholarly and energetic volume of essays is a rich contribution to the ongoing study of Francis Ponge. It presents in their entirety the proceedings of a 1999 international colloquium which set out to engage afresh with Ponge — and with the history of Ponge studies — upon the centenary of the poet's birth. Its purposeful title expresses the ethical and aesth…
Reconfiguring the Public and the Private
This article analyses the public and the private in the work of Christine Angot with a particular focus on her 2006 text Rendez-vous and an emphasis on her articulation of intimacy, exposure and vulnerability. Angot is first contextualised through broad analysis of the trend in France for radically self-revelatory cultural production by women, which reconfigures the public/private divide and brings us to consider it in postfeminist perspective. W…
Exhibiting Pain
This article focuses on the relationship between the subjective and the collective in the work of project artist Sophie Calle through a ‘virtual visit’ to her mixed-media installation Douleur exquise (1984–2003). Through detailed analysis of the intricate systems of narrative in and between the installation's three parts, it assesses the contribution of Calle's project to two phenomena which are of central importance to cultural production in Fra…
Spatial and Emotional Limits in Installation Art
Performance in Sophie Calle’s Prenez soin de vous
This article analyses performance in the work of French project artist Sophie Calle, focusing in detail on the major installation Prenez soin de vous (2007). It argues that performance, which is key to debates about postmodern self-narrative and central to an understanding of Calle’s corpus from the outset, is taken into new terrain with this project, since its scope, variety and ambitious collective dimension become ways not of scrutinising but …
Autofiction in the Feminine
Voicing Voluntary Childlessness
Women’s lives in contemporary French and Francophone literature
Women’s lives in contemporary French and Francophone literature." Modern & Contemporary France, 26(1), pp. 101–102
Marie NDiaye
Washes and Hues
This article analyses Marie NDiaye's experimentation with colour and colour values, and argues that she sets out to unsettle the way we think about colour. For the main part colour - and indeed colour blindness - in the author's work have been explored through scrutiny of her progressively more detailed attentiveness to experiences and perceptions of skin colour in contemporary France. Yet colour is deployed and investigated in numerous distincti…
Disorderly eating in contemporary women’s writing
The Introduction presents the rationale for this special issue, and engages with key scholarship in the field. It makes the case for considering eating disorders in the wider context of ‘disorderly eating’, both as a sociological phenomenon and a recurrent literary concern, granted the importance of ordering and regulating food consumption for community cohesion. It is particularly concerned to ask what is, and what is not, specific about the con…
‘Writing/Reading for Change
Food, disorder, and disgust in Marie NDiaye
This article argues that food, food preparation and disorderly eating are core concerns in Marie NDiaye’s writing. The author’s detailed depiction of protagonists’ unusual relationships to food is shown to contribute to the complex and enigmatic ethical matter of her texts. Through analysis of scenes of disorderly eating in three novels, Mon Cœur à l’étroit (2007), Ladivine (2013), and La Cheffe, roman d’une cuisinière (2016), the article shows h…
Introduction. Ageism, Ageing, and Old Age in Contemporary French Culture
Journal Article Introduction. Ageism, Ageing, and Old Age in Contemporary French Culture: Critical Age Studies in a French Context Get access Shirley Jordan Shirley Jordan Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, knad112, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knad112 Published: 21 June 2023
Ageing and Care in Agnès Varda
This article analyses selected works of Agnès Varda as original contributions to cultural gerontology. It focuses on Varda's pronounced interest in older people throughout her career and explores how, in experimental portraits and self-portraits, she approaches ageing by harnessing surprising devices — temporal, spatial, aesthetic, haptic, and affective — to challenge ageism and assumptions of disability, and to encourage identification. The arti…
Ambivalence as agency in Camille Reynaud’s Et par endroits ça fait des nœuds (2021)
This article examines ambivalence and agency in contemporary life writing through focusing on an autopathography which highlights these features of self-narrative in original ways while also holding them in unusual tension. Camille Reynaud’s first publication, Et par endroits ça fait des nœuds (2021), addresses the abrupt loss of selfhood resulting from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm she experienced four years prior to publication. It draws the rea…
Old Age in Simone de Beauvoir and Martine Franck
This article explores connections between Beauvoir’s work on aging and the photographic study of older people by humanist photographer Martine Franck. It traces entanglements between Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age and Franck’s photobook Time to Grow Old , focusing especially on differences related to gender and aging and on epistemologies of aging research. The author argues that the projects on aging by Beauvoir and Franck illuminate each other in…
Thoughts on Place
in the author's home at Cergy-Pontoise. 1 Our intention was to use an overarching theme -that of place -as a guide or fil rouge allowing us to garner Ernaux's current thoughts and feelings on a range of subjects that have played a pivotal role throughout her writings and her life.In a three-way conversation that lasted throughout the afternoon, we explored the significant places and environments that recur in Ernaux's writings, from the café-épic…
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