Deirdre Byrne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4207776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deirdre Byrne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deirdre |
| FAMILY NAME | Byrne |
| SIGNATURE | BYRNE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Intimate Selves
This article uses poetic inquiry to explore the author's experiences of the global COVID-19 pandemic, which brought about a State of Disaster in South Africa from 26 March 2020 to 5 April 2022. The author had, before the pandemic, been used to going to an office and interacting with colleagues every day, and was not used to spending long periods of time alone. The poetry presented in this article was written during, and about, time the author spe…
Introduction to the Special Issue of Feminist Encounters on ‘Gender and the Anthropocene’
Studies in Culture and Politics is motivated by the need to craft a gendered, and specifically intersectional feminist, response to the Anthropocene. The term was coined in 2000 by scientists
“Policing Borders”
Borders between states are spaces of aggression and anxiety about ownership, inclusion, exclusion and group identity, and they are often reinforced by shows of force that can yield to violence. Apartheid in South Africa was primarily and explicitly an attempt at controlling who could occupy space. The erection and maintenance of borders within the country, between spaces, became more aggressive and rigid as the era progressed and it became appare…
Dressed for the Part
Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy presents a dystopia in which young people from less privileged socio-economic districts are sacrificed in murderous “games” in order to reinforce state power. Katniss Everdeen emerges from this context of oppression as the leader of a rebellion against centralised state domination. The series seems to flout well-established conventions of heroic fantasy, in which, traditionally, a male hero develops towards …
Samuel Delany writes difference
This article explores the intersection of transgressive sexual desire, literary convention and the boundaries of style in the Epilogue to Samuel Delany's science fiction masterpiece, Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand (1986). My argument has three parts. First, I discuss themes of gender and transgression in Delany's autobiography, The Motion of Light in Water (1988). Second, I examine Delany's subversion of the codes of Romantic poetry in th…
The meaning(s) of Frankenstein
This article has a twofold intention. On the one hand it aims to recapitulate and evaluate many of the possible meanings ascribed to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. These meanings are seen as complementary and not as comparable on a scale of validity or accuracy. On the other, its target is the process of literary interpretation itself, which is viewed as politically inscribed within the contest of meaning‐making that takes place in departments of l…
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The meaning(s) of Frankenstein
This article has a twofold intention. On the one hand it aims to recapitulate and evaluate many of the possible meanings ascribed to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. These meanings are seen as complementary and not as comparable on a scale of validity or accuracy. On the other, its target is the process of literary interpretation itself, which is viewed as politically inscribed within the contest of meaning‐making that takes place in departments of l…
Samuel Delany writes difference
This article explores the intersection of transgressive sexual desire, literary convention and the boundaries of style in the Epilogue to Samuel Delany's science fiction masterpiece, Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand (1986). My argument has three parts. First, I discuss themes of gender and transgression in Delany's autobiography, The Motion of Light in Water (1988). Second, I examine Delany's subversion of the codes of Romantic poetry in th…
Dressed for the Part
Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy presents a dystopia in which young people from less privileged socio-economic districts are sacrificed in murderous “games” in order to reinforce state power. Katniss Everdeen emerges from this context of oppression as the leader of a rebellion against centralised state domination. The series seems to flout well-established conventions of heroic fantasy, in which, traditionally, a male hero develops towards …
“Policing Borders”
Borders between states are spaces of aggression and anxiety about ownership, inclusion, exclusion and group identity, and they are often reinforced by shows of force that can yield to violence. Apartheid in South Africa was primarily and explicitly an attempt at controlling who could occupy space. The erection and maintenance of borders within the country, between spaces, became more aggressive and rigid as the era progressed and it became appare…
Introduction to the Special Issue of Feminist Encounters on ‘Gender and the Anthropocene’
Studies in Culture and Politics is motivated by the need to craft a gendered, and specifically intersectional feminist, response to the Anthropocene. The term was coined in 2000 by scientists
Intimate Selves
This article uses poetic inquiry to explore the author's experiences of the global COVID-19 pandemic, which brought about a State of Disaster in South Africa from 26 March 2020 to 5 April 2022. The author had, before the pandemic, been used to going to an office and interacting with colleagues every day, and was not used to spending long periods of time alone. The poetry presented in this article was written during, and about, time the author spe…
Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Political science (2 works)