Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4240110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen-Margrethe Simonsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen-Margrethe |
| FAMILY NAME | Simonsen |
| SIGNATURE | SIMONSEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6586-8527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions
The first volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery explores literary representations of enslavement with a focus on the emotions. The contributors consider how the diverse emotions generated by slavery have been represented over a historical period stretching from the 16th century to the present and across regions, languages, media and genres. The seventeen chapters explore different framings of emotional life in terms of ‘senti…
Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic World and Beyond. Volume I
Allegorical Theatricality: Horror and Human Rights in Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Atrocity Story A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire
A study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the 16th and 19th century in the Spanish Empire
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Relationel komparatisme
This article addresses a question crucial to contemporary cultural analysis: the question of how to compare and what to compare in a globalized world. Modern comparativism has effectively undermined the very foundation of historical comparativism, i.e. the idea of confined and segregated (national) cultures and Eurocentric perspectives and perceptions of what is historically significant, and what is not. The article opens with a discussion of som…
Natural Rights and Power in the Spanish Comedia after the Conquest
Lope de Vega's comedy The New World Discovered by Christopher Columbus (El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon) from 1598–1603 is the first European play to present a speaking Native American on stage. It is an historical propaganda play, written a hundred years after the discovery of the New World, from the colonial center of power in Spain in order to legitimize the Spanish conquest. Since the Spanish understood the conquest as legitimi…
The politics of universalism. Strategic uses of human rights discourses in early modernity
This article investigates the political function of human rights in 16th-century Spain just after the conquest of America. It claims that the study of this period of early globalization is relevant for an understanding of the function of human rights discourses today, at the “end” of globalization. Historically speaking, human rights are closely connected with globalization, but at the same time, they raise the question about the foundation of gl…
Anmeldelse: Migrationslitteratur
Anmeldelse af SØREN FRANK, 2008Migration and Literature(New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 248sider)
Overvågning Som Lovgivning - Hasan Elahi Og Surveillance Camera Players Som Eksempel
SURVEILLANCE AS LAW. CASE-STUDIES OF HASAN ELAHI AND THE SURVEILLANCE CAMERA PLAYERSThis article traces sousveillance strategies in two pieces of contemporary art, namely in Hasan Elahi’s Tracking Transience (2002), and 1984 by The Surveillance Camera Players. It discusses the ways that contemporary art reflects surveillance in an ironic and metareflective way. The article is based on the idea that the conditions for understanding the logics of s…
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Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire
A study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the 16th and 19th century in the Spanish Empire
Om Forfatterne
En kort beskrivelse af tidsskriftets forfattere
Overvågning Som Lovgivning - Hasan Elahi Og Surveillance Camera Players Som Eksempel
SURVEILLANCE AS LAW. CASE-STUDIES OF HASAN ELAHI AND THE SURVEILLANCE CAMERA PLAYERSThis article traces sousveillance strategies in two pieces of contemporary art, namely in Hasan Elahi’s Tracking Transience (2002), and 1984 by The Surveillance Camera Players. It discusses the ways that contemporary art reflects surveillance in an ironic and metareflective way. The article is based on the idea that the conditions for understanding the logics of s…
Anmeldelse: Migrationslitteratur
Anmeldelse af SØREN FRANK, 2008Migration and Literature(New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 248sider)
The politics of universalism. Strategic uses of human rights discourses in early modernity
This article investigates the political function of human rights in 16th-century Spain just after the conquest of America. It claims that the study of this period of early globalization is relevant for an understanding of the function of human rights discourses today, at the “end” of globalization. Historically speaking, human rights are closely connected with globalization, but at the same time, they raise the question about the foundation of gl…
Natural Rights and Power in the Spanish Comedia after the Conquest
Lope de Vega's comedy The New World Discovered by Christopher Columbus (El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colon) from 1598–1603 is the first European play to present a speaking Native American on stage. It is an historical propaganda play, written a hundred years after the discovery of the New World, from the colonial center of power in Spain in order to legitimize the Spanish conquest. Since the Spanish understood the conquest as legitimi…
Relationel komparatisme
This article addresses a question crucial to contemporary cultural analysis: the question of how to compare and what to compare in a globalized world. Modern comparativism has effectively undermined the very foundation of historical comparativism, i.e. the idea of confined and segregated (national) cultures and Eurocentric perspectives and perceptions of what is historically significant, and what is not. The article opens with a discussion of som…
Bildkonflikter
Allegorical Theatricality: Horror and Human Rights in Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Atrocity Story A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire
A study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the 16th and 19th century in the Spanish Empire
A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions
The first volume of A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery explores literary representations of enslavement with a focus on the emotions. The contributors consider how the diverse emotions generated by slavery have been represented over a historical period stretching from the 16th century to the present and across regions, languages, media and genres. The seventeen chapters explore different framings of emotional life in terms of ‘senti…
Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic World and Beyond. Volume I
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Politics (3 works)