Sonia Weiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3852633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Weiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiner |
| SIGNATURE | WEINER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7681-0654 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Obstinate Heritage and the Family Photo Archive in Lily Tuck’s "The Double Life of Liliane"
In Lily Tuck's intermedial novel, The Double Life of Liliane (2015), traces of elusive pasts haunt the recollections of the autofictional narrator, Liliane.In the novel, old family photographs are entangled with fragments of memory and with conceptions of race (and gender) in mid-century America.By employing an intermedial strategy, the obscurity of the past is emphasized even as its secrets are made visible.The article explores the interpretive …
“Are you the translator?”
In her 2011 intermedial memoir, "Intimate: An American Family Photo Album," Paisley Rekdal plays the role of translator between normative Anglo-American and ethnic American identities, by including photographs of Native Americans in her “family photo album.” Weaving photographs taken by Edward S. Curtis, along with those taken by various ethnographers into her memoir, Rekdal orchestrates a dialog in which the images complement and argue against e…
Photographic Aesthetics and Migrant Ethics in Amitava Kumar’s "Immigrant, Montana"
This article examines the intermedial aesthetics employed by Amitava Kumar in his novel, Immigrant, Montana (2018), through his eclectic weaving of image and text. Kumar's aesthetics create an ethics that contends with enduring colonial power paradigms, enacting thereby a blurring of binary distinctions. Kumar's verbal-visual dialogue is explored by focusing in part one, "The Space between Man and Hanuman," on photographs of monkeys reproduced wi…
Volume 66.3 (2021)
This essay explores how a selection of Flannery O'Connor's short fiction dramatizes, critiques, and occasionally re-inscribes the mixture of nostalgia, White supremacy, and authoritarianism that permeated her South.Drawing upon Svetlana Boym's concept of restorative nostalgia, it demonstrates how stories such as "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," "Judgment Day," and especially the largely unheralded "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" confront Lost Caus…
Narrating Photography in The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Journal Article Narrating Photography in The Sweet Flypaper of Life Get access Sonia Weiner Sonia Weiner Tel Aviv University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 155–176, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0002 Published: 01 March 2012
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Narrating Photography in The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Journal Article Narrating Photography in The Sweet Flypaper of Life Get access Sonia Weiner Sonia Weiner Tel Aviv University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 155–176, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0002 Published: 01 March 2012
Photographic Aesthetics and Migrant Ethics in Amitava Kumar’s "Immigrant, Montana"
This article examines the intermedial aesthetics employed by Amitava Kumar in his novel, Immigrant, Montana (2018), through his eclectic weaving of image and text. Kumar's aesthetics create an ethics that contends with enduring colonial power paradigms, enacting thereby a blurring of binary distinctions. Kumar's verbal-visual dialogue is explored by focusing in part one, "The Space between Man and Hanuman," on photographs of monkeys reproduced wi…
Volume 66.3 (2021)
This essay explores how a selection of Flannery O'Connor's short fiction dramatizes, critiques, and occasionally re-inscribes the mixture of nostalgia, White supremacy, and authoritarianism that permeated her South.Drawing upon Svetlana Boym's concept of restorative nostalgia, it demonstrates how stories such as "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," "Judgment Day," and especially the largely unheralded "A Late Encounter with the Enemy" confront Lost Caus…
“Are you the translator?”
In her 2011 intermedial memoir, "Intimate: An American Family Photo Album," Paisley Rekdal plays the role of translator between normative Anglo-American and ethnic American identities, by including photographs of Native Americans in her “family photo album.” Weaving photographs taken by Edward S. Curtis, along with those taken by various ethnographers into her memoir, Rekdal orchestrates a dialog in which the images complement and argue against e…
Obstinate Heritage and the Family Photo Archive in Lily Tuck’s "The Double Life of Liliane"
In Lily Tuck's intermedial novel, The Double Life of Liliane (2015), traces of elusive pasts haunt the recollections of the autofictional narrator, Liliane.In the novel, old family photographs are entangled with fragments of memory and with conceptions of race (and gender) in mid-century America.By employing an intermedial strategy, the obscurity of the past is emphasized even as its secrets are made visible.The article explores the interpretive …
Art (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Identity (music) (2 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art history (1 work)