Rebecca Weaver‐hightower
Biographic Data
| ID | 4048536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Weaver‐hightower |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Weaver‐hightower |
| SIGNATURE | HIGHTOWER R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mobile Film Festival Africa and Postcolonial Activism
This paper enters into a debate of how new and potentially more accessible technologies might affect freedom of expression for heretofore disenfranchised peoples and postcolonial social and political development. This essay examines short films produced on camera phones by amateur African filmmakers for one of the many existent mobile phone film festivals: Mobile Film Festival Africa held in 2021. Mobile Film Festival, an annual and international…
‘New’ Media
Can one colonise or liberate cyberspace, space that is not actually space [...]
South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument and 1820 Settlers National Monument
This article compares two South African monument spaces, the well-known Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria and the lesser-known 1820 Settlers National Monument in Makandha (formerly Grahamstown). While ultimately both monuments enact cultural violence through the veneration of European settler groups, they do so in contrasting ways, which may make a difference in ultimately mitigating their cultural violence. While the Voortrekker Monument presents…
Enshrining Gender in Monuments to Settler Whiteness
This essay examines two monuments: the Voortrekker Monument in South Africa and the American This is the Place Monument in Utah. Similar in terms of construction and historical purpose, both employ gender as an important tool to legitimize the settler society each commemorates. Each was part of a similar project of cultural recuperation in the 1930s−1940s that chose as their object of commemoration the overland migration in covered wagons of a gr…
Botany and the woman colonizer in Catharine Parr Traill's Backwoods of Canada and Anna Brownell Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada
This essay explores the gendered dynamics of settler belonging in Catharine Parr Traill's Backwoods of Canada and Anna Brownell Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada. Settlement for women, in order to maintain socially acceptable boundaries, required vastly different performative tasks from male settlers. Therefore, our inquiry considers why these two female settlers include rich descriptions of landscape and flora in their narrat…
This is the Place Salt Lake City, Utah and the Voortrekker Monument Pretoria
This essay compares South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument and the US’s This is the Place monument, both built to commemorate cross-country settler movements, for how the two contemporaneous monuments memorialize the nineteenth-century historical event in the service of the racial politics of the twentieth century. While the Voortrekker monument’s relief sculptures represent Black Africans as savages and intractable impediments to civilization, the …
Cinematic Settlers
This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the underanalyzed medium of film. Cinematic Settlers discusses different cinematic genres, national traditions, and specific movies in order to expose related threads, shared circulations of knowledge, and paralleled representations. Organized into thematic groupings-conquest, settlement, natives, and space-the contributors explore …
Elegies to dead children and murdered indigenes
This essay examines the ‘lost child’ narrative in the work of several 19th century settler authors, especially the poetry and fiction of the American Lydia Sigourney, and the memoirs of the Canadian Susannah Moodie and the Australian Louisa Anne Meredith. The essay traces how these three women’s literary works connect the loss and death of their and others' children to their personal and the larger culture’s guilt over indigenous dispossession an…
The complicated identity negotiation of women in Kangni Alemdjrodo’s Chemin de Croix and Gustave Akakpo’s Catharsis
Third World feminists have long worked to bring to postcolonial studies a more nuanced reading of women’s lives in formerly colonized spaces. Postcolonial drama provides a fitting venue for such Third World feminists desiring to represent the realities of postcolonial African women. This article brings into conversation the post-colonial dramatists, the francophone playwrights, Kangni Alemdjrodo and Gustave Akapko, who have heretofore been unment…
Tomb Raider Archeologists and the Exhumation of the US Neoimperial Cinematic Fantasy
Children's Literature and African Studies
Cast Away and Survivor
Cast Away and Survivor
Children's Literature and African Studies
Tomb Raider Archeologists and the Exhumation of the US Neoimperial Cinematic Fantasy
The complicated identity negotiation of women in Kangni Alemdjrodo’s Chemin de Croix and Gustave Akakpo’s Catharsis
Third World feminists have long worked to bring to postcolonial studies a more nuanced reading of women’s lives in formerly colonized spaces. Postcolonial drama provides a fitting venue for such Third World feminists desiring to represent the realities of postcolonial African women. This article brings into conversation the post-colonial dramatists, the francophone playwrights, Kangni Alemdjrodo and Gustave Akapko, who have heretofore been unment…
Elegies to dead children and murdered indigenes
This essay examines the ‘lost child’ narrative in the work of several 19th century settler authors, especially the poetry and fiction of the American Lydia Sigourney, and the memoirs of the Canadian Susannah Moodie and the Australian Louisa Anne Meredith. The essay traces how these three women’s literary works connect the loss and death of their and others' children to their personal and the larger culture’s guilt over indigenous dispossession an…
Cinematic Settlers
This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the underanalyzed medium of film. Cinematic Settlers discusses different cinematic genres, national traditions, and specific movies in order to expose related threads, shared circulations of knowledge, and paralleled representations. Organized into thematic groupings-conquest, settlement, natives, and space-the contributors explore …
Enshrining Gender in Monuments to Settler Whiteness
This essay examines two monuments: the Voortrekker Monument in South Africa and the American This is the Place Monument in Utah. Similar in terms of construction and historical purpose, both employ gender as an important tool to legitimize the settler society each commemorates. Each was part of a similar project of cultural recuperation in the 1930s−1940s that chose as their object of commemoration the overland migration in covered wagons of a gr…
Botany and the woman colonizer in Catharine Parr Traill's Backwoods of Canada and Anna Brownell Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada
This essay explores the gendered dynamics of settler belonging in Catharine Parr Traill's Backwoods of Canada and Anna Brownell Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada. Settlement for women, in order to maintain socially acceptable boundaries, required vastly different performative tasks from male settlers. Therefore, our inquiry considers why these two female settlers include rich descriptions of landscape and flora in their narrat…
This is the Place Salt Lake City, Utah and the Voortrekker Monument Pretoria
This essay compares South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument and the US’s This is the Place monument, both built to commemorate cross-country settler movements, for how the two contemporaneous monuments memorialize the nineteenth-century historical event in the service of the racial politics of the twentieth century. While the Voortrekker monument’s relief sculptures represent Black Africans as savages and intractable impediments to civilization, the …
South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument and 1820 Settlers National Monument
This article compares two South African monument spaces, the well-known Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria and the lesser-known 1820 Settlers National Monument in Makandha (formerly Grahamstown). While ultimately both monuments enact cultural violence through the veneration of European settler groups, they do so in contrasting ways, which may make a difference in ultimately mitigating their cultural violence. While the Voortrekker Monument presents…
Mobile Film Festival Africa and Postcolonial Activism
This paper enters into a debate of how new and potentially more accessible technologies might affect freedom of expression for heretofore disenfranchised peoples and postcolonial social and political development. This essay examines short films produced on camera phones by amateur African filmmakers for one of the many existent mobile phone film festivals: Mobile Film Festival Africa held in 2021. Mobile Film Festival, an annual and international…
‘New’ Media
Can one colonise or liberate cyberspace, space that is not actually space [...]
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