Megan C Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan C Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Koç University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3139-1441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bare Life at Sea (the Leper and the Plague)
This essay examines the complex entanglements of disease and “bare life” at sea. While there have been many studies of the racialization of biopolitics on slave ships, for instance, this chapter seeks to extend the lessons of such critique into the conceptualization of other violent crossings and dehumanized subjectivation. It attends, in particular, to forms of life at sea through the figures and figuration of the North African stowaway and refu…
Tahar Djaout, 25 ans après
Tahar Djaout, 25 ans après Megan MacDonald (bio) Translated by Adèle Cenier Le 26 mai 1993, l'auteur, poète et journaliste algérien Tahar Djaout était assassiné à Alger dans un parking proche de sa résidence. Ayant été l'un des premiers écrivains à être tué durant la guerre civile algérienne, il devint un symbole de l'intellocide, théâtre du meurtre ou de l'exil forcé de nombreux intellectuels. De sa mort s'ensuivit un foisonnement d'écrits élégi…
Who Owns the Trauma Blanket? Tracing Kader Attia's Ghost and the “ couverture de survie ” in Transit
In 2016 French-Algerian artist Kader Attia filed a lawsuit against the French rappers Dosseh and Nekfeu, accusing them of plagiarizing Attia's 2007 installation piece Ghost in their music video “Putain d’époque.” Looking closely at both artists’ work, I ask: what is at stake in Attia's claims of plagiarism, especially for an artist who traffics in bricolage, memory, and, in his own words, “les blessures” of history? I argue that, with the current…
Introduction
Across the sensationalist media coverage of recent migratory movements, generally labelled as the “refugee crisis,” crucial issues of gender, including health-care disparities, differential access
The French intifada
We read in The French Intifada’s conclusion that Andrew Hussey ‘aimed to present [ ... ] an accessible analysis of current tensions on both sides of the Mediterranean, informed by an account of the h
The trans-Mediterranean navette
Salah Guemriche's Dictionnaire des mots français d’origine arabe (2007) gathers French words that originally come from Arabic, putting them in the context of French literature, illustrating how Arabic has had a presence in French literature through various histories. Reading Assia Djebar's preface to this dictionary reveals a navette, or shuttle, between not only the linguistic sites of French and Arabic, but also a particularly trans-Mediterrane…
Humanism at the limit and post-restante in the colony
This article examines incarceration and socialization as depicted in Jacques Audiard’s film Un Prophète (2009). The postcolonial prison in the centre of the nation, called ‘Centrale’, is a site where postcolonial humanism is pushed to its limit. A close reading of the film reveals currency and mobility working in tandem, as illustrated by the appearance of a 50-franc bill depicting Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Le Petit Prince in the opening and c…
Lacunae, erasure, and the impossibility of bearing witness in Boualem Sansal's Le Village de l'Allemand (2008)
Le Village de l'Allemand ou Le journal des frères Schiller (2008), the prizewinning Algerian author Boualem Sansal's fifth novel originally published in France, confronts major historical events of the twentieth century: the French occupation of Algeria, the Holocaust, the Algerian War of Independence and Civil War in the 1990s, as well as the banlieues in modern day France. Taking the form of two diaries written by half-German, half-Algerian bro…
The French intifada
We read in The French Intifada’s conclusion that Andrew Hussey ‘aimed to present [ ... ] an accessible analysis of current tensions on both sides of the Mediterranean, informed by an account of the h
Who Owns the Trauma Blanket? Tracing Kader Attia's Ghost and the “ couverture de survie ” in Transit
In 2016 French-Algerian artist Kader Attia filed a lawsuit against the French rappers Dosseh and Nekfeu, accusing them of plagiarizing Attia's 2007 installation piece Ghost in their music video “Putain d’époque.” Looking closely at both artists’ work, I ask: what is at stake in Attia's claims of plagiarism, especially for an artist who traffics in bricolage, memory, and, in his own words, “les blessures” of history? I argue that, with the current…
Humanism at the limit and post-restante in the colony
This article examines incarceration and socialization as depicted in Jacques Audiard’s film Un Prophète (2009). The postcolonial prison in the centre of the nation, called ‘Centrale’, is a site where postcolonial humanism is pushed to its limit. A close reading of the film reveals currency and mobility working in tandem, as illustrated by the appearance of a 50-franc bill depicting Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Le Petit Prince in the opening and c…
Lacunae, erasure, and the impossibility of bearing witness in Boualem Sansal's Le Village de l'Allemand (2008)
Le Village de l'Allemand ou Le journal des frères Schiller (2008), the prizewinning Algerian author Boualem Sansal's fifth novel originally published in France, confronts major historical events of the twentieth century: the French occupation of Algeria, the Holocaust, the Algerian War of Independence and Civil War in the 1990s, as well as the banlieues in modern day France. Taking the form of two diaries written by half-German, half-Algerian bro…
Lacunae, erasure, and the impossibility of bearing witness in Boualem Sansal's Le Village de l'Allemand (2008)
Le Village de l'Allemand ou Le journal des frères Schiller (2008), the prizewinning Algerian author Boualem Sansal's fifth novel originally published in France, confronts major historical events of the twentieth century: the French occupation of Algeria, the Holocaust, the Algerian War of Independence and Civil War in the 1990s, as well as the banlieues in modern day France. Taking the form of two diaries written by half-German, half-Algerian bro…
The trans-Mediterranean navette
Salah Guemriche's Dictionnaire des mots français d’origine arabe (2007) gathers French words that originally come from Arabic, putting them in the context of French literature, illustrating how Arabic has had a presence in French literature through various histories. Reading Assia Djebar's preface to this dictionary reveals a navette, or shuttle, between not only the linguistic sites of French and Arabic, but also a particularly trans-Mediterrane…
Humanism at the limit and post-restante in the colony
This article examines incarceration and socialization as depicted in Jacques Audiard’s film Un Prophète (2009). The postcolonial prison in the centre of the nation, called ‘Centrale’, is a site where postcolonial humanism is pushed to its limit. A close reading of the film reveals currency and mobility working in tandem, as illustrated by the appearance of a 50-franc bill depicting Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Le Petit Prince in the opening and c…
The French intifada
We read in The French Intifada’s conclusion that Andrew Hussey ‘aimed to present [ ... ] an accessible analysis of current tensions on both sides of the Mediterranean, informed by an account of the h
Tahar Djaout, 25 ans après
Tahar Djaout, 25 ans après Megan MacDonald (bio) Translated by Adèle Cenier Le 26 mai 1993, l'auteur, poète et journaliste algérien Tahar Djaout était assassiné à Alger dans un parking proche de sa résidence. Ayant été l'un des premiers écrivains à être tué durant la guerre civile algérienne, il devint un symbole de l'intellocide, théâtre du meurtre ou de l'exil forcé de nombreux intellectuels. De sa mort s'ensuivit un foisonnement d'écrits élégi…
Who Owns the Trauma Blanket? Tracing Kader Attia's Ghost and the “ couverture de survie ” in Transit
In 2016 French-Algerian artist Kader Attia filed a lawsuit against the French rappers Dosseh and Nekfeu, accusing them of plagiarizing Attia's 2007 installation piece Ghost in their music video “Putain d’époque.” Looking closely at both artists’ work, I ask: what is at stake in Attia's claims of plagiarism, especially for an artist who traffics in bricolage, memory, and, in his own words, “les blessures” of history? I argue that, with the current…
Introduction
Across the sensationalist media coverage of recent migratory movements, generally labelled as the “refugee crisis,” crucial issues of gender, including health-care disparities, differential access
Bare Life at Sea (the Leper and the Plague)
This essay examines the complex entanglements of disease and “bare life” at sea. While there have been many studies of the racialization of biopolitics on slave ships, for instance, this chapter seeks to extend the lessons of such critique into the conceptualization of other violent crossings and dehumanized subjectivation. It attends, in particular, to forms of life at sea through the figures and figuration of the North African stowaway and refu…
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