Sara Salih
Biographic Data
| ID | 450369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Salih |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Salih |
| SIGNATURE | SALIH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1835-2920 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Idol Theory
The idol, in medieval Christian analysis, is a paradoxical object; it may be conceived of either as mere dumb matter, or as the housing of a living demon. It is paradoxical, too, in contemporary theories of materiality; the idol is a paradigm of the material thing invested with agency, but how then does it find space to develop the excess that makes it an agent, not a mere machine? This article argues that Christian narratives of the origin of id…
The Animal You See: Why Look at Animals in Gaza
Taking my cue from John Berger's question why look at animals, I discuss media coverage of Gaza's zoos between 2005 and 2009. I probe what is at stake when we look at animals in war zones, and I ask what purpose the spectacle of suffering and murdered animals served for non-Gazans outside the Strip who followed these news cycles. There is a pleasure in this kind of looking, which also necessitates a looking away from other suffering animals – tho…
Judith Butler e a Teoria Queer
Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present
This study considers cultural representations of "brown" people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the Abolition era onwards. Through close readings of contemporary fictions and "histories," Salih probes the extent to which colonial ideologies may have been underpinned by what might be called subject-constituting statutes, along with the potential for force and violence which necessarily undergird the law.…
Widows in Anglo‐Saxon and Medieval Britain by Marie‐Françoise Alamichel
Can Fiction “Do” Racism
Book Review| September 01 2010 Can Fiction “Do” Racism? George Boulukos. The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2008). Pp. viii + 280. 6 ills. $95 Sara Salih Sara Salih Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 48–50. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
Our people know the difference, black is a race, jew is a religion, f*g**tism is a sin’: T owards a Q ueer P ostcolonial H ermeneutics
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760-1838
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory and visual
Judith Butler and the ethics of ‘difficulty’
Judith Butler
Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as:* The subject* Gender* Sex* Language* The PsycheWith clear discussions of the context and impact of Butler's work and an extensive guide to further reading, this book offers an excellent introduction to…
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory and visual
Our people know the difference, black is a race, jew is a religion, f*g**tism is a sin’: T owards a Q ueer P ostcolonial H ermeneutics
Judith Butler
Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as:* The subject* Gender* Sex* Language* The PsycheWith clear discussions of the context and impact of Butler's work and an extensive guide to further reading, this book offers an excellent introduction to…
Judith Butler and the ethics of ‘difficulty’
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760-1838
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory and visual
Our people know the difference, black is a race, jew is a religion, f*g**tism is a sin’: T owards a Q ueer P ostcolonial H ermeneutics
Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present
This study considers cultural representations of "brown" people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the Abolition era onwards. Through close readings of contemporary fictions and "histories," Salih probes the extent to which colonial ideologies may have been underpinned by what might be called subject-constituting statutes, along with the potential for force and violence which necessarily undergird the law.…
Widows in Anglo‐Saxon and Medieval Britain by Marie‐Françoise Alamichel
Can Fiction “Do” Racism
Book Review| September 01 2010 Can Fiction “Do” Racism? George Boulukos. The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2008). Pp. viii + 280. 6 ills. $95 Sara Salih Sara Salih Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 48–50. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Li…
Judith Butler e a Teoria Queer
The Animal You See: Why Look at Animals in Gaza
Taking my cue from John Berger's question why look at animals, I discuss media coverage of Gaza's zoos between 2005 and 2009. I probe what is at stake when we look at animals in war zones, and I ask what purpose the spectacle of suffering and murdered animals served for non-Gazans outside the Strip who followed these news cycles. There is a pleasure in this kind of looking, which also necessitates a looking away from other suffering animals – tho…
Idol Theory
The idol, in medieval Christian analysis, is a paradoxical object; it may be conceived of either as mere dumb matter, or as the housing of a living demon. It is paradoxical, too, in contemporary theories of materiality; the idol is a paradigm of the material thing invested with agency, but how then does it find space to develop the excess that makes it an agent, not a mere machine? This article argues that Christian narratives of the origin of id…
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