Shahira Hathout
Biographic Data
| ID | 4607536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shahira Hathout |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shahira |
| FAMILY NAME | Hathout |
| SIGNATURE | HATHOUT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0064-2295 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Posthumanism and Decolonization in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Iceberg’ Theory
Critical negativity in Hans Holbein’s The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1520–22), settler colonialism, and the death of myth
This paper draws on the critical negativity presented by Julia Kristeva and Édouard Glissant. Despite their differences, both accounts agree on three points: First, they respectively reject the fixation of an original meaning or original identity, moving towards a more indeterminate open-ended rethinking of loss, trauma, and the fragmented subject. Like Glissant’s ‘womb abyss’, Kristeva’s ‘black sun’ is another abyss, through which fragmentation,…
Satire in the Time of Genocide
Toward a Posthumanist Sublime in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
The sublime is a scale relationship between humans and powerful nonhuman nature. In this brief reflection on Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion, I consider how Austen carefully approached the sublime in her description of the wildness of nature at Lyme Regis, where humans (her characters) and the nonhuman nature meet, within the context of the Anthropocene. Whereas modern humanist conceptualizations of ‘the sublime’ privilege human reason and culture…
Posthumous resilience and active withdrawal
This paper focuses upon the famous sculpture of the Dying Gaul, situated in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, in order to read and to rethink discourses of resilience in the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene poses fundamental questions to understandings of ‘bouncing back’ or imaginaries of ‘sustainable futures’. There can be no affirmative futural imaginaries if saving the world requires the destruction and sacrifice of innumerable others. Thinking wit…
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Toward a Posthumanist Sublime in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
The sublime is a scale relationship between humans and powerful nonhuman nature. In this brief reflection on Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion, I consider how Austen carefully approached the sublime in her description of the wildness of nature at Lyme Regis, where humans (her characters) and the nonhuman nature meet, within the context of the Anthropocene. Whereas modern humanist conceptualizations of ‘the sublime’ privilege human reason and culture…
Posthumous resilience and active withdrawal
This paper focuses upon the famous sculpture of the Dying Gaul, situated in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, in order to read and to rethink discourses of resilience in the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene poses fundamental questions to understandings of ‘bouncing back’ or imaginaries of ‘sustainable futures’. There can be no affirmative futural imaginaries if saving the world requires the destruction and sacrifice of innumerable others. Thinking wit…
Satire in the Time of Genocide
Posthumanism and Decolonization in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Iceberg’ Theory
Critical negativity in Hans Holbein’s The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1520–22), settler colonialism, and the death of myth
This paper draws on the critical negativity presented by Julia Kristeva and Édouard Glissant. Despite their differences, both accounts agree on three points: First, they respectively reject the fixation of an original meaning or original identity, moving towards a more indeterminate open-ended rethinking of loss, trauma, and the fragmented subject. Like Glissant’s ‘womb abyss’, Kristeva’s ‘black sun’ is another abyss, through which fragmentation,…
History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropocene (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)