Rachael Gilmour
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachael Gilmour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachael |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilmour |
| SIGNATURE | GILMOUR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1602-1717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Brexit, the pandemic and the battle with language
This interview with the well-known poet Daljit Nagra was conducted in summer 2022 by Claire Chambers, with Rachael Gilmour providing questions in absentia due to a bout of coronavirus. In it, the three discuss such issues as ‘refugee tales’, poetic ethics and voice, the Brexit referendum’s emboldening of the far right and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. Above all, the conversation turns to Nagra’s bending of language via his use of ‘babu Engli…
Special issue
You could argue that the title of this special issue is simply a statement of fact, insofar as “English teaching” has never in reality taken place in the absence of other forms of language, even wh
Diary of some good in a bad year
Learning Zulu and bearing witness
Punning in Punglish, Sounding ‘Poreign’
This essay explores Daljit Nagra's poetry – Look We Have Coming To Dover! (2007) and Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger-Toy Machine!!! (2011) – in the context of contemporary British language politics. It argues that Nagra's approach to language – combining heteroglot, multivoiced experimentalism with an etymological attention to the historical constructedness of language – offers a riposte to monolingual ideologies, which also res…
Doing voices
This article offers a detailed exploration and comparative reading of two poems published roughly 20 years apart: John Agard’s “Listen Mr Oxford Don” (1985), and Daljit Nagra’s “Kabba Questions the Ontology of Representation, the Catch-22 for ‘Black’ Writers...” (2007). The former poem is well-known, being regarded by a range of scholars as the acme of (and often, shorthand for) self-reflexively dialogic black British voice poetry, as it emerged …
Living between languages
This essay examines the notion of “translational writing” – literary texts which bear the traces of multiple languages, foregrounding and dramatizing the processes of translation of which they are both product and representation – through detailed examination of two recent novels set in London: Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005), and Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007). Both novels are narrated by their female protago…
Missionaries, Colonialism and Language in Nineteenth‐Century South Africa
Throughout the nineteenth century, driven by the need both to communicate with potential African converts and to produce written Scriptural translations, Christian missionaries set about studying, transliterating and transforming South African languages. Their work served, in various ways, the demands of the developing British colonial order; established new ‘standard forms’ of South African vernaculars; and facilitated the development of literac…
A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
Although the relationship of missionary linguistics to colonial power in Africa has been well-documented, far less attention has been paid to the role of language-learning in forging missionary identities. This article examines a diverse range of responses to the Zulu language among missionaries in Natal in the 1850s and 1860s – the period in which missionary work became consolidated in the colony – addressing their relationship not only to the w…
Living between languages
This essay examines the notion of “translational writing” – literary texts which bear the traces of multiple languages, foregrounding and dramatizing the processes of translation of which they are both product and representation – through detailed examination of two recent novels set in London: Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005), and Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007). Both novels are narrated by their female protago…
Missionaries, Colonialism and Language in Nineteenth‐Century South Africa
Throughout the nineteenth century, driven by the need both to communicate with potential African converts and to produce written Scriptural translations, Christian missionaries set about studying, transliterating and transforming South African languages. Their work served, in various ways, the demands of the developing British colonial order; established new ‘standard forms’ of South African vernaculars; and facilitated the development of literac…
A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
Although the relationship of missionary linguistics to colonial power in Africa has been well-documented, far less attention has been paid to the role of language-learning in forging missionary identities. This article examines a diverse range of responses to the Zulu language among missionaries in Natal in the 1850s and 1860s – the period in which missionary work became consolidated in the colony – addressing their relationship not only to the w…
Learning Zulu and bearing witness
Doing voices
This article offers a detailed exploration and comparative reading of two poems published roughly 20 years apart: John Agard’s “Listen Mr Oxford Don” (1985), and Daljit Nagra’s “Kabba Questions the Ontology of Representation, the Catch-22 for ‘Black’ Writers...” (2007). The former poem is well-known, being regarded by a range of scholars as the acme of (and often, shorthand for) self-reflexively dialogic black British voice poetry, as it emerged …
Missionaries, Colonialism and Language in Nineteenth‐Century South Africa
Throughout the nineteenth century, driven by the need both to communicate with potential African converts and to produce written Scriptural translations, Christian missionaries set about studying, transliterating and transforming South African languages. Their work served, in various ways, the demands of the developing British colonial order; established new ‘standard forms’ of South African vernaculars; and facilitated the development of literac…
A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
Although the relationship of missionary linguistics to colonial power in Africa has been well-documented, far less attention has been paid to the role of language-learning in forging missionary identities. This article examines a diverse range of responses to the Zulu language among missionaries in Natal in the 1850s and 1860s – the period in which missionary work became consolidated in the colony – addressing their relationship not only to the w…
Living between languages
This essay examines the notion of “translational writing” – literary texts which bear the traces of multiple languages, foregrounding and dramatizing the processes of translation of which they are both product and representation – through detailed examination of two recent novels set in London: Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005), and Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007). Both novels are narrated by their female protago…
Doing voices
This article offers a detailed exploration and comparative reading of two poems published roughly 20 years apart: John Agard’s “Listen Mr Oxford Don” (1985), and Daljit Nagra’s “Kabba Questions the Ontology of Representation, the Catch-22 for ‘Black’ Writers...” (2007). The former poem is well-known, being regarded by a range of scholars as the acme of (and often, shorthand for) self-reflexively dialogic black British voice poetry, as it emerged …
Punning in Punglish, Sounding ‘Poreign’
This essay explores Daljit Nagra's poetry – Look We Have Coming To Dover! (2007) and Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger-Toy Machine!!! (2011) – in the context of contemporary British language politics. It argues that Nagra's approach to language – combining heteroglot, multivoiced experimentalism with an etymological attention to the historical constructedness of language – offers a riposte to monolingual ideologies, which also res…
Learning Zulu and bearing witness
Diary of some good in a bad year
Special issue
You could argue that the title of this special issue is simply a statement of fact, insofar as “English teaching” has never in reality taken place in the absence of other forms of language, even wh
Brexit, the pandemic and the battle with language
This interview with the well-known poet Daljit Nagra was conducted in summer 2022 by Claire Chambers, with Rachael Gilmour providing questions in absentia due to a bout of coronavirus. In it, the three discuss such issues as ‘refugee tales’, poetic ethics and voice, the Brexit referendum’s emboldening of the far right and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. Above all, the conversation turns to Nagra’s bending of language via his use of ‘babu Engli…
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