Alice Brittan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Brittan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Brittan |
| SIGNATURE | BRITTAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
At the Verge
This essay responds to the idea of “living the boundary” that Stephen Clingman develops in “A Story of Identity for our Times” and The Grammar of Identity. In mythical and wisdom traditions, revolutionary tricksters are often associated with thresholds, because travel across spatial, perceptual, or political limits is what allows cultural transformation to take place. In South Africa and elsewhere, boundaries are where culture is re-made
Reading sex and violence in André Brink\'s Rumours of Rain and A Dry White Season
This essay examines the relationship between narrative excess and narrative restraint, arguing that the bedchamber becomes a troubling surrogate for the ideologically and aesthetically hazardous journey into the torture chambers of the apartheid state. Drawing on the work of Rosemary Jolly as well as on J.M. Coetzee's "Into the Dark Chamber" and Brink's own "Literature and Offence," which imagines the novel as a woman who teases the male reader w…
A Ghost Story in Two Part
It is only just that an argument about phantoms begin by introducing its own ghosts. Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth prowl the shadows of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, the novels that are my central subject, and they are plays in which the outraged dead return to reveal the fraudulence of a social imposter. The opening scene of Hamlet contains one of literature's most devastating visitations, who appears to t…
A Ghost Story in Two Part
It is only just that an argument about phantoms begin by introducing its own ghosts. Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth prowl the shadows of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, the novels that are my central subject, and they are plays in which the outraged dead return to reveal the fraudulence of a social imposter. The opening scene of Hamlet contains one of literature's most devastating visitations, who appears to t…
A Ghost Story in Two Part
It is only just that an argument about phantoms begin by introducing its own ghosts. Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth prowl the shadows of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, the novels that are my central subject, and they are plays in which the outraged dead return to reveal the fraudulence of a social imposter. The opening scene of Hamlet contains one of literature's most devastating visitations, who appears to t…
Reading sex and violence in André Brink\'s Rumours of Rain and A Dry White Season
This essay examines the relationship between narrative excess and narrative restraint, arguing that the bedchamber becomes a troubling surrogate for the ideologically and aesthetically hazardous journey into the torture chambers of the apartheid state. Drawing on the work of Rosemary Jolly as well as on J.M. Coetzee's "Into the Dark Chamber" and Brink's own "Literature and Offence," which imagines the novel as a woman who teases the male reader w…
At the Verge
This essay responds to the idea of “living the boundary” that Stephen Clingman develops in “A Story of Identity for our Times” and The Grammar of Identity. In mythical and wisdom traditions, revolutionary tricksters are often associated with thresholds, because travel across spatial, perceptual, or political limits is what allows cultural transformation to take place. In South Africa and elsewhere, boundaries are where culture is re-made
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works)