Bart Moore‐gilbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 3955816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bart Moore‐gilbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bart |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore‐gilbert |
| SIGNATURE | GILBERT B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anton Shammas’s Arabesques: Towards a “One-State” Aesthetic
This essay explores the possibility that Anton Shammas’s novel Arabesques (1986) tentatively gestures towards what might be described as a “One-State” aesthetic for Israel–Palestine. It traces the novel’s complex intersections with the postcolonial, in order to show that Arabesques problematizes any straightforward investment in Palestinian cultural nationalism. Moore-Gilbert highlights the novel’s consistent unsettling of generic boundaries and …
A. B. Yehoshua and David Grossman: Towards postnational(ist) allegories
This essay reads a selection of the fiction of Israeli writers A. B. Yehoshua and David Grossman against these authors’ non-fictional pronouncements in favour of a “Two-State” solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Moore-Gilbert argues that Yehoshua’s The Liberated Bride (2001) and Grossman’s See Under: Love (1989) and To the End of the Land (2010) in fact gesture towards the “One-State” aesthetic that was similarly identified as a strain …
Palestine, Postcolonialism and Pessoptimism: Palestine and Postcolonial Studies
This essay traces the belated entrance of ‘Palestine’ into the field of postcolonial studies. It explores the various ways in which the object of Palestine has challenged and complicated many of the premises and presumptions of the discipline, principally in the way it troubles the once frequently embraced idea that the State of Israel is itself the consequence of anticolonial struggle. Rather than affirming the reverse scenario for Palestine, Mo…
Postcolonial Criticism
Time bandits: Temporality and the politics of form in Palestinian women's life-writing
This article explores the complex relationships between textual form, time/temporality/history and oppressive structures of patriarchy and colonialism as they are manifested in Palestinian women's life-writing. It argues that questions of "the political" cannot be divorced from aesthetic issues in a context where national cultures are in the process of being (re)formed. Further, it argues that a focus on gender can produce more nuanced understand…
"Baleful Postcoloniality" and Palestinian Women's Life Writing
This article considers the relationship between the concept of "baleful postcoloniality" and Palestinian women's life writing. "Baleful postcoloniality" is explored in relation to two particular issues: a succession of foreign occupations of Palestinian territory-especially the period of Israeli hegemony-and the traditional economy of gender relations governing Palestinian society. The article analyzes how Palestinian women life-writers express a…
Cosmos and Colony
COSMOS AND COLONY Robert Spencer, Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011; 240pp, hardback £50 A certain sense of malaise and exhaustion has been evident in Postcolonial Studies for some time now in terms of its strategic goals, with a host of commentators seeking to 'relocate' it, wondering when it was (past tense) or seeking its abolition. While the production of postcolonial literary criticism …
Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-State
Philip Holden. Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-State. London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 279 pages, ISBN 978-0-299-922610-7 Reviewed by: Bart Moor
Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation
Postcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production. Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship between postcolonial life-writing and its western analogues, identifying the key characteristics that differentiate the genre in the postcolonial context. Focusing particularly on writing styles and narrative conceptions of the Self, this book uncovers…
The politics of 'postcolonial' memory (extract fromMy Father Was a Terrorist? A Kind of Memoir-work in progress)
My contribution to this special issue on ‘Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths’ is an extract from my current book, the origins of which lie in an email from an Indian historian in the summer of 2007
Western Autobiography and Colonial Discourse: An Overview
Spivak and Bhabha
The Confessions of Saint Augustine: Roots and Routes of Postcolonial Life Writing
New worlds, new selves” Montaigne, “the Atlantic” and the emergence of modern autobiography
This essay argues that Montaigne's Essays expresses the emergence of the early Modern European Self in a canonical form. This emergence is substantially affected by means of Montaigne's comparative reflections on the non-Western Self, most notably the inhabitants of the “New World” opened up by transatlantic explorations. To this extent, “the Atlantic” is crucial not just to the construction of the western Self, but to the evolution of autobiogra…
Western Autobiography and Colonial Discourse: The Case of Rousseau's 'Orientalism
This essay argues that Autobiographical Studies has failed to appreciate sufficiently the importance of ethnicity in the construction of the western autobiographical subject. Taking a canonical figure of the genre, Rousseau-often, indeed, considered to be the inaugurator of modern western autobiography-it is argued that issues of ethnicity are crucial to this key writer's ways of imagining and narrating himself. It will be shown more particularly…
Olive Schreiner's Story of an African Farm: Reconciling Feminism and Anti-Imperialism
The nature of the relationship between (proto-)feminism and (anti-)imperialism is highly contested. A case in point is the work of Olive Schreiner, and the articulation of gender politics with (anti-)imperialism which has been subjected to repeated scrutiny in the last twenty years. One strand of criticism, exemplified by critics like Laura Chrisman, Anne McClintock and Carolyn Burdett, argues that Schreiner generally successfully integrates a (p…
Plotting the South African colonial unconscious: Subaltern Studies and literary criticism
(2003). Plotting the South African colonial unconscious: Subaltern Studies and literary criticism. African Identities: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 37-52
I am going to rewrite Kipling’s Kim”: Kipling and Postcolonialism
Introduction to Special Issue Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Resistance
Postcolonial cultural studies and imperial historiography: Problems of interdisciplinarity
Postcolonialism: Between nationalitarianism and globalisation? A response to Simon During
(1998). Postcolonialism: Between nationalitarianism and globalisation? A response to Simon During. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 49-65
Anglo‐Saxon attitudes: Empire, race and English studies in contemporary university fiction
Frantz Fanon: En‐gendering nationalist discourse
(1996). Frantz Fanon: En‐gendering nationalist discourse. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 125-135
Beyond orientalism: Culture, imperialism and humanism
(1996). Beyond orientalism?: Culture, imperialism and humanism. Wasafiri: Vol. 11, Post‐Colonial Writing, pp. 8-13
The psychic price of class mobility in post-war British fiction
(1996). The psychic price of class mobility in post‐war British fiction. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 1402-1407
Time bandits: Temporality and the politics of form in Palestinian women's life-writing
This article explores the complex relationships between textual form, time/temporality/history and oppressive structures of patriarchy and colonialism as they are manifested in Palestinian women's life-writing. It argues that questions of "the political" cannot be divorced from aesthetic issues in a context where national cultures are in the process of being (re)formed. Further, it argues that a focus on gender can produce more nuanced understand…
"Baleful Postcoloniality" and Palestinian Women's Life Writing
This article considers the relationship between the concept of "baleful postcoloniality" and Palestinian women's life writing. "Baleful postcoloniality" is explored in relation to two particular issues: a succession of foreign occupations of Palestinian territory-especially the period of Israeli hegemony-and the traditional economy of gender relations governing Palestinian society. The article analyzes how Palestinian women life-writers express a…
The Confessions of Saint Augustine: Roots and Routes of Postcolonial Life Writing
New worlds, new selves” Montaigne, “the Atlantic” and the emergence of modern autobiography
This essay argues that Montaigne's Essays expresses the emergence of the early Modern European Self in a canonical form. This emergence is substantially affected by means of Montaigne's comparative reflections on the non-Western Self, most notably the inhabitants of the “New World” opened up by transatlantic explorations. To this extent, “the Atlantic” is crucial not just to the construction of the western Self, but to the evolution of autobiogra…
Western Autobiography and Colonial Discourse: The Case of Rousseau's 'Orientalism
This essay argues that Autobiographical Studies has failed to appreciate sufficiently the importance of ethnicity in the construction of the western autobiographical subject. Taking a canonical figure of the genre, Rousseau-often, indeed, considered to be the inaugurator of modern western autobiography-it is argued that issues of ethnicity are crucial to this key writer's ways of imagining and narrating himself. It will be shown more particularly…
Postcolonial cultural studies and imperial historiography: Problems of interdisciplinarity
Postcolonialism: Between nationalitarianism and globalisation? A response to Simon During
(1998). Postcolonialism: Between nationalitarianism and globalisation? A response to Simon During. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 49-65
Frantz Fanon: En‐gendering nationalist discourse
(1996). Frantz Fanon: En‐gendering nationalist discourse. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 125-135
The politics of 'postcolonial' memory (extract fromMy Father Was a Terrorist? A Kind of Memoir-work in progress)
My contribution to this special issue on ‘Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths’ is an extract from my current book, the origins of which lie in an email from an Indian historian in the summer of 2007
Western Autobiography and Colonial Discourse: An Overview
Olive Schreiner's Story of an African Farm: Reconciling Feminism and Anti-Imperialism
The nature of the relationship between (proto-)feminism and (anti-)imperialism is highly contested. A case in point is the work of Olive Schreiner, and the articulation of gender politics with (anti-)imperialism which has been subjected to repeated scrutiny in the last twenty years. One strand of criticism, exemplified by critics like Laura Chrisman, Anne McClintock and Carolyn Burdett, argues that Schreiner generally successfully integrates a (p…
I am going to rewrite Kipling’s Kim”: Kipling and Postcolonialism
Introduction to Special Issue Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Resistance
"Kipling and "Orientalism
The rhetoric of english India
(1993). The rhetoric of english India. History of European Ideas: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 533-535
Inventing India: A history of India in english-language fiction
English and its others: Nationalism, identity and literary studies in post-war Britain
(1994). English and its others: Nationalism, identity and literary studies in post-war Britain. History of European Ideas: Vol. 19, No. 4-6, pp. 611-617
Which way post-colonial theory: Current problems and future prospects
Masks of conquest: Literary study and British rule in India
(1994). Masks of conquest: Literary study and British rule in India. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 452-453
Frantz Fanon: En‐gendering nationalist discourse
(1996). Frantz Fanon: En‐gendering nationalist discourse. Women: A Cultural Review: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 125-135
Beyond orientalism: Culture, imperialism and humanism
(1996). Beyond orientalism?: Culture, imperialism and humanism. Wasafiri: Vol. 11, Post‐Colonial Writing, pp. 8-13
The psychic price of class mobility in post-war British fiction
(1996). The psychic price of class mobility in post‐war British fiction. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 1402-1407
Anglo‐Saxon attitudes: Empire, race and English studies in contemporary university fiction
Postcolonialism: Between nationalitarianism and globalisation? A response to Simon During
(1998). Postcolonialism: Between nationalitarianism and globalisation? A response to Simon During. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 49-65
Postcolonial cultural studies and imperial historiography: Problems of interdisciplinarity
I am going to rewrite Kipling’s Kim”: Kipling and Postcolonialism
Introduction to Special Issue Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Resistance
Olive Schreiner's Story of an African Farm: Reconciling Feminism and Anti-Imperialism
The nature of the relationship between (proto-)feminism and (anti-)imperialism is highly contested. A case in point is the work of Olive Schreiner, and the articulation of gender politics with (anti-)imperialism which has been subjected to repeated scrutiny in the last twenty years. One strand of criticism, exemplified by critics like Laura Chrisman, Anne McClintock and Carolyn Burdett, argues that Schreiner generally successfully integrates a (p…
Plotting the South African colonial unconscious: Subaltern Studies and literary criticism
(2003). Plotting the South African colonial unconscious: Subaltern Studies and literary criticism. African Identities: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 37-52
Spivak and Bhabha
The Confessions of Saint Augustine: Roots and Routes of Postcolonial Life Writing
New worlds, new selves” Montaigne, “the Atlantic” and the emergence of modern autobiography
This essay argues that Montaigne's Essays expresses the emergence of the early Modern European Self in a canonical form. This emergence is substantially affected by means of Montaigne's comparative reflections on the non-Western Self, most notably the inhabitants of the “New World” opened up by transatlantic explorations. To this extent, “the Atlantic” is crucial not just to the construction of the western Self, but to the evolution of autobiogra…
Western Autobiography and Colonial Discourse: The Case of Rousseau's 'Orientalism
This essay argues that Autobiographical Studies has failed to appreciate sufficiently the importance of ethnicity in the construction of the western autobiographical subject. Taking a canonical figure of the genre, Rousseau-often, indeed, considered to be the inaugurator of modern western autobiography-it is argued that issues of ethnicity are crucial to this key writer's ways of imagining and narrating himself. It will be shown more particularly…
Western Autobiography and Colonial Discourse: An Overview
Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation
Postcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production. Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship between postcolonial life-writing and its western analogues, identifying the key characteristics that differentiate the genre in the postcolonial context. Focusing particularly on writing styles and narrative conceptions of the Self, this book uncovers…
The politics of 'postcolonial' memory (extract fromMy Father Was a Terrorist? A Kind of Memoir-work in progress)
My contribution to this special issue on ‘Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths’ is an extract from my current book, the origins of which lie in an email from an Indian historian in the summer of 2007
Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-State
Philip Holden. Autobiography and Decolonization: Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-State. London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 279 pages, ISBN 978-0-299-922610-7 Reviewed by: Bart Moor
Cosmos and Colony
COSMOS AND COLONY Robert Spencer, Cosmopolitan Criticism and Postcolonial Literature, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011; 240pp, hardback £50 A certain sense of malaise and exhaustion has been evident in Postcolonial Studies for some time now in terms of its strategic goals, with a host of commentators seeking to 'relocate' it, wondering when it was (past tense) or seeking its abolition. While the production of postcolonial literary criticism …
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