Geoffrey Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 4237488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kwantlen Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5849-5945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards an intersectional literary criticism: Cross-Identity representations, social location, and Shani Mootoo's intervention
This article explores how literary critics can approach cross-identity representations in a way that addresses the complex use of alterity by authors who re/construct pluralistic societies and are also marginalized by the colonial matrix of power. Recent theorists such as Mark Bracher have noted that social justice is as imperative to literary scholarship as the late 20th- to early 21st- century aesthetic turn (identified by Ruth Gilligan) that d…
Subject/ive bodies: The resistance poetics of Chrystos and Mahadai Das
Recent criticism has considered how literary texts harness historical and ideological forces in the representation of the body. However, much of that scholarship focuses on hegemonic structures such as Western medicine, post-human technologies or colonial race theories. This article looks at how two poets from the Americas – Indigenous North American Chrystos (Menominee) and Mahadai Das from Guyana – express representations of the body from a pos…
Dashed Hopes and Extremism in Tunisia
Since 2011, the Tunisian government has carried out the most successful democratic transition of the Arab Spring. Yet during this same period, acts of domestic terrorism grew significantly. This development contradicts a prominent belief that democratization should produce declining levels of radicalization. This paper argues that Tunisia's 2011 revolution created a combustible combination of unmanaged social expectations, declining institutional…
Racial Politics and Campaign Strategy in South Africa's 2009 Election
South Africa's 2009 election featured competition between the ruling African National Congress (ANC), the steadily improving Democratic Alliance (DA), and the newly formed ANC splinter party, the Congress of the People (COPE). In 2009, national-level parties faced the same strategic imperative as in previous elections: to gain support among the Black majority. But the emergence of COPE had potentially important implications for election strategy.…
Dashed Hopes and Extremism in Tunisia
Since 2011, the Tunisian government has carried out the most successful democratic transition of the Arab Spring. Yet during this same period, acts of domestic terrorism grew significantly. This development contradicts a prominent belief that democratization should produce declining levels of radicalization. This paper argues that Tunisia's 2011 revolution created a combustible combination of unmanaged social expectations, declining institutional…
Racial Politics and Campaign Strategy in South Africa's 2009 Election
South Africa's 2009 election featured competition between the ruling African National Congress (ANC), the steadily improving Democratic Alliance (DA), and the newly formed ANC splinter party, the Congress of the People (COPE). In 2009, national-level parties faced the same strategic imperative as in previous elections: to gain support among the Black majority. But the emergence of COPE had potentially important implications for election strategy.…
Racial Politics and Campaign Strategy in South Africa's 2009 Election
South Africa's 2009 election featured competition between the ruling African National Congress (ANC), the steadily improving Democratic Alliance (DA), and the newly formed ANC splinter party, the Congress of the People (COPE). In 2009, national-level parties faced the same strategic imperative as in previous elections: to gain support among the Black majority. But the emergence of COPE had potentially important implications for election strategy.…
Dashed Hopes and Extremism in Tunisia
Since 2011, the Tunisian government has carried out the most successful democratic transition of the Arab Spring. Yet during this same period, acts of domestic terrorism grew significantly. This development contradicts a prominent belief that democratization should produce declining levels of radicalization. This paper argues that Tunisia's 2011 revolution created a combustible combination of unmanaged social expectations, declining institutional…
Subject/ive bodies: The resistance poetics of Chrystos and Mahadai Das
Recent criticism has considered how literary texts harness historical and ideological forces in the representation of the body. However, much of that scholarship focuses on hegemonic structures such as Western medicine, post-human technologies or colonial race theories. This article looks at how two poets from the Americas – Indigenous North American Chrystos (Menominee) and Mahadai Das from Guyana – express representations of the body from a pos…
Towards an intersectional literary criticism: Cross-Identity representations, social location, and Shani Mootoo's intervention
This article explores how literary critics can approach cross-identity representations in a way that addresses the complex use of alterity by authors who re/construct pluralistic societies and are also marginalized by the colonial matrix of power. Recent theorists such as Mark Bracher have noted that social justice is as imperative to literary scholarship as the late 20th- to early 21st- century aesthetic turn (identified by Ruth Gilligan) that d…
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