Grant Hamilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grant Hamilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grant |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMILTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8445-0575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1920 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reconfiguring the Ideal Order
Computational literary studies has developed sophisticated methods for detecting textual relationships – similarity networks, text reuse detection, semantic comparison – yet these approaches remain largely constrained to pairwise analysis. They reveal which texts resemble one another but cannot capture how individual works contribute to the collective semantic architecture of a corpus. This paper introduces a methodology that addresses this gap b…
The Ethics of Biosurveillance
Aporia and diaspora
This article argues that the first-generation diasporic experience staged in Dinaw Mengestu's recent novel, How to Read the Air, is one of a lived dissonance – of a combat between the experience of a (new) world that the diasporic subject knows nothing about, but a world in which she is nonetheless expected (even by herself) to fully participate. The result of this lived dissonance is a kind of paralysis, a kind of stuttering that arises from the…
The Communion of Clouds
In her well-read work on contemporary feminist theory titled Nomadic Subjects (2011), Rosi Braidotti gets to grips with the Deleuzian notion of â becoming-womanâ . Noting that the concept has experienced a good deal of criticism in feminist circles (and from some important feminists too, such as Luce Irigaray), Braidotti argues that there is still something of extreme importance in this concept for the feminist to recover. For Braidotti, â becomi…
Writing from the Outside? Post-1997 Expatriate Writing in Hong Kong
On world literature
The definition of ‘world literature' has been a keenly debated one ever since Goethe proclaimed in 1827 that the ‘epoch of world literature is at hand’. This paper enters the debate by bringing the conclusion of Ludwig Boltzmann's work on entropy into conversation with contemporary ideas about literature – about Literature proper, national literature and, in the end, world literature. If entropy describes the inevitability of an organized system …
Pepetela's proposal
Written by perhaps Angola's most celebrated writer of the post-independence period, The Return of the Water Spirit is Pepetela's attempt to articulate 'the truths' of the Angolan nation. In response to President Agostinho Neto's earlier call for Angolan writers to 'analyse reality profoundly', Pepetela writes of the political reality of the newly independent nation, charting the corrosive force of capitalism on the ideological principles of the s…
Uncertainty and the Future
This essay thinks of V.V. Ganeshananthan's recent novel Love Marriage (2008) as a novel of movement. Indeed, one finds movement everywhere in the novel—the escape; the flight; the diaspora; the unsettled; acts of interpretation; the embrace of the unknown. Importantly, it is this very environment of uncertainty that Ganeshananthan shows is vital not just to the Sri Lankan Tamil community but the wider Sri Lankan community as a whole. As the figur…
On Representation
In this important new study, Hamilton establishes and develops innovative links between the sites of postcolonial literary theory, the fiction of the South African/Australian academic and Nobel Prize-winning writer J.M. Coetzee, and the work of the French poststructuralist philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Centering on the key postcolonial problematic of representation, Hamilton argues that if one approaches the colonial subject through Gilles Deleuze'…
The Ghost in the Machine
A scholarly article by authors Evonne Miller, Laurie Buys, and Lorraine Bell, Megan Hargreaves, Les Dawes, Grant Hamilton published in The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review
J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands
With strong reference to the theoretical work of Gilles Deleuze, Antonin Artaud, and Friedrich Nietzsche, this article aims to understand J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands ([1974]1998) as a novel of relations. From the reader's initial difficulty in trying to reconcile the seemingly divergent constitutive narratives to its exploration of the (failed) relationships between subject and object, Self and Other, and the corporeality of the body and the incorpo…
Federal Government and Production
TW HAT can the government do for production? According to past political thought the best thing the government could do was to keep its hands off except when the exercise of police power was necessary to maintain property rights. However, there has been developing a larger concept of governmental functionsconstructive as well as punitive duties. Dissatisfaction with inefficiency that has developed under private control has led some enthusiasts to…
The Ethics of Biosurveillance
Aporia and diaspora
This article argues that the first-generation diasporic experience staged in Dinaw Mengestu's recent novel, How to Read the Air, is one of a lived dissonance – of a combat between the experience of a (new) world that the diasporic subject knows nothing about, but a world in which she is nonetheless expected (even by herself) to fully participate. The result of this lived dissonance is a kind of paralysis, a kind of stuttering that arises from the…
Federal Government and Production
TW HAT can the government do for production? According to past political thought the best thing the government could do was to keep its hands off except when the exercise of police power was necessary to maintain property rights. However, there has been developing a larger concept of governmental functionsconstructive as well as punitive duties. Dissatisfaction with inefficiency that has developed under private control has led some enthusiasts to…
J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands
With strong reference to the theoretical work of Gilles Deleuze, Antonin Artaud, and Friedrich Nietzsche, this article aims to understand J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands ([1974]1998) as a novel of relations. From the reader's initial difficulty in trying to reconcile the seemingly divergent constitutive narratives to its exploration of the (failed) relationships between subject and object, Self and Other, and the corporeality of the body and the incorpo…
The Ghost in the Machine
A scholarly article by authors Evonne Miller, Laurie Buys, and Lorraine Bell, Megan Hargreaves, Les Dawes, Grant Hamilton published in The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review
On Representation
In this important new study, Hamilton establishes and develops innovative links between the sites of postcolonial literary theory, the fiction of the South African/Australian academic and Nobel Prize-winning writer J.M. Coetzee, and the work of the French poststructuralist philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Centering on the key postcolonial problematic of representation, Hamilton argues that if one approaches the colonial subject through Gilles Deleuze'…
Uncertainty and the Future
This essay thinks of V.V. Ganeshananthan's recent novel Love Marriage (2008) as a novel of movement. Indeed, one finds movement everywhere in the novel—the escape; the flight; the diaspora; the unsettled; acts of interpretation; the embrace of the unknown. Importantly, it is this very environment of uncertainty that Ganeshananthan shows is vital not just to the Sri Lankan Tamil community but the wider Sri Lankan community as a whole. As the figur…
Pepetela's proposal
Written by perhaps Angola's most celebrated writer of the post-independence period, The Return of the Water Spirit is Pepetela's attempt to articulate 'the truths' of the Angolan nation. In response to President Agostinho Neto's earlier call for Angolan writers to 'analyse reality profoundly', Pepetela writes of the political reality of the newly independent nation, charting the corrosive force of capitalism on the ideological principles of the s…
On world literature
The definition of ‘world literature' has been a keenly debated one ever since Goethe proclaimed in 1827 that the ‘epoch of world literature is at hand’. This paper enters the debate by bringing the conclusion of Ludwig Boltzmann's work on entropy into conversation with contemporary ideas about literature – about Literature proper, national literature and, in the end, world literature. If entropy describes the inevitability of an organized system …
Writing from the Outside? Post-1997 Expatriate Writing in Hong Kong
Aporia and diaspora
This article argues that the first-generation diasporic experience staged in Dinaw Mengestu's recent novel, How to Read the Air, is one of a lived dissonance – of a combat between the experience of a (new) world that the diasporic subject knows nothing about, but a world in which she is nonetheless expected (even by herself) to fully participate. The result of this lived dissonance is a kind of paralysis, a kind of stuttering that arises from the…
The Communion of Clouds
In her well-read work on contemporary feminist theory titled Nomadic Subjects (2011), Rosi Braidotti gets to grips with the Deleuzian notion of â becoming-womanâ . Noting that the concept has experienced a good deal of criticism in feminist circles (and from some important feminists too, such as Luce Irigaray), Braidotti argues that there is still something of extreme importance in this concept for the feminist to recover. For Braidotti, â becomi…
The Ethics of Biosurveillance
Reconfiguring the Ideal Order
Computational literary studies has developed sophisticated methods for detecting textual relationships – similarity networks, text reuse detection, semantic comparison – yet these approaches remain largely constrained to pairwise analysis. They reveal which texts resemble one another but cannot capture how individual works contribute to the collective semantic architecture of a corpus. This paper introduces a methodology that addresses this gap b…
Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works)