Kirsten Sandrock
Biographic Data
| ID | 4880759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten Sandrock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandrock |
| SIGNATURE | SANDROCK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georg‐August University Goettingen |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-4243-0170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Britain’s Imperial Past and Contemporary Borders in Adichie’s Americanah and Zadie Smith’s ‘Fences’
Recent literary works draw attention to the multifaceted legacy of Britain’s imperial past, not only but including its impact on current UK border practices. The works of postcolonial and Black British authors illustrate especially strongly that the spatial epistemologies of empire are still prevalent in twenty-first century border debates. This article engages with Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s Americanah (2013) and Zadie Smith’s essay “Fences” (2…
Failures East and West
Failures East and West
Ancient empires and early modern colonialism in William Alexander's Monarchicke Tragedies (1603‐07)
This article examines discourses of empire in William Alexander's Monarchicke Tragedies (1603–07) and shows that the dramas actively engage in early Jacobean debates about geopolitical expansion. Drawing on contemporaneous philosophies of leadership and state as well as on theories of Renaissance imperialism, the essay suggests that The Monarchicke Tragedies were partly devised as counsel for James VI and I on foreign politics, both in Europe and…
Introduction
In the past ten to fifteen years, critical understandings of regions and, concomitantly, regionalist approaches to literature and culture have undergone considerable changes. Studies such as Laurie Ricou’s The Arbutus/Madrone Files (2002) or Claudia Sadowski-Smith’s Border Fictions (2008), for instance, have focused on spaces and cultures that cross and crystallize around North American national borders, thereby questioning traditional, which is …
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Introduction
In the past ten to fifteen years, critical understandings of regions and, concomitantly, regionalist approaches to literature and culture have undergone considerable changes. Studies such as Laurie Ricou’s The Arbutus/Madrone Files (2002) or Claudia Sadowski-Smith’s Border Fictions (2008), for instance, have focused on spaces and cultures that cross and crystallize around North American national borders, thereby questioning traditional, which is …
Ancient empires and early modern colonialism in William Alexander's Monarchicke Tragedies (1603‐07)
This article examines discourses of empire in William Alexander's Monarchicke Tragedies (1603–07) and shows that the dramas actively engage in early Jacobean debates about geopolitical expansion. Drawing on contemporaneous philosophies of leadership and state as well as on theories of Renaissance imperialism, the essay suggests that The Monarchicke Tragedies were partly devised as counsel for James VI and I on foreign politics, both in Europe and…
Failures East and West
Failures East and West
Britain’s Imperial Past and Contemporary Borders in Adichie’s Americanah and Zadie Smith’s ‘Fences’
Recent literary works draw attention to the multifaceted legacy of Britain’s imperial past, not only but including its impact on current UK border practices. The works of postcolonial and Black British authors illustrate especially strongly that the spatial epistemologies of empire are still prevalent in twenty-first century border debates. This article engages with Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s Americanah (2013) and Zadie Smith’s essay “Fences” (2…
Art (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · History (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works)