Dirk Van Rens
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk Van Rens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Rens |
| SIGNATURE | VAN RENS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Eastern Finland Joensuu Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6598-2549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
As Not Seen Before: Media and Ordinary Spaces as Alternative Archives in Nana Oforiatta Ayim’s Novel The God Child
This paper examines memory in Nana Oforiatta Ayim’s novel The God Child (2019) by centring on media and ordinary spaces. Media and ordinary spaces provide alternative archives able to circumvent traditional memory-making media. The novel’s central concern is shown to be the way these media continue to produce a Eurocentric image of Africa as pre-modern. Apart from signalling the potential of new media to serve as an alternative means of memory-ma…
Novel Reviews
David Machado, The Shelf Life of Happiness , trans. Hillary Locke (Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2016), 236 pp., $14.95 (paperback). Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (New York: Doubleday, 2021), 336 pp., $18.00 (paperback)
This Ain’t the Way It’s S’posed to Be”: Negotiating Trauma Through Postmemory and Implication in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
This paper examines how the negotiation of the traumas of slavery and its legacies in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016) deviates from traditional trauma literature in terms of its form and content. Gyasi’s novel is shown to be structured as a postmemorial family saga, allowing it to highlight the transgenerational and transtemporal effects of trauma in a way that differs markedly from the modernist aesthetics prescribed by traditional trauma theory. H…
This Ain’t the Way It’s S’posed to Be”: Negotiating Trauma Through Postmemory and Implication in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
This paper examines how the negotiation of the traumas of slavery and its legacies in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016) deviates from traditional trauma literature in terms of its form and content. Gyasi’s novel is shown to be structured as a postmemorial family saga, allowing it to highlight the transgenerational and transtemporal effects of trauma in a way that differs markedly from the modernist aesthetics prescribed by traditional trauma theory. H…
This Ain’t the Way It’s S’posed to Be”: Negotiating Trauma Through Postmemory and Implication in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
This paper examines how the negotiation of the traumas of slavery and its legacies in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016) deviates from traditional trauma literature in terms of its form and content. Gyasi’s novel is shown to be structured as a postmemorial family saga, allowing it to highlight the transgenerational and transtemporal effects of trauma in a way that differs markedly from the modernist aesthetics prescribed by traditional trauma theory. H…
Novel Reviews
David Machado, The Shelf Life of Happiness , trans. Hillary Locke (Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2016), 236 pp., $14.95 (paperback). Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (New York: Doubleday, 2021), 336 pp., $18.00 (paperback)
Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
As Not Seen Before: Media and Ordinary Spaces as Alternative Archives in Nana Oforiatta Ayim’s Novel The God Child
This paper examines memory in Nana Oforiatta Ayim’s novel The God Child (2019) by centring on media and ordinary spaces. Media and ordinary spaces provide alternative archives able to circumvent traditional memory-making media. The novel’s central concern is shown to be the way these media continue to produce a Eurocentric image of Africa as pre-modern. Apart from signalling the potential of new media to serve as an alternative means of memory-ma…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Ain't (1 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (1 works) · Geology (1 works) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (1 works)