Jeanne-Marie Jackson Jeanne-Marie Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5604102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanne-Marie Jackson Jeanne-Marie Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanne-Marie Jackson Jeanne-Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON J J J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reading for the Region in New African Novels
This essay proposes that the region is a formally and epistemologically distinct scale through which to theorize the African novel. Intra-African migration becomes the trope whereby novels are marked by a regional consciousness; whether or not it is formally manifest, though, depends on what writers can conjure of migration’s concrete realities. Aviation, in particular—and the divisive fact of whether it is central to one’s movement—becomes decis…
Interview with Elnathan John
After a contextualizing introduction, the following interview with the Nigerian writer Elnathan John explores the relation of his work to some key themes of this essay cluster: religious belief, social life, and the literary representation thereof. It begins by discussing the reception of John's novel Born on a Tuesday in light of the differences between Boko Haram as an international phenomenon and the novel's more regional focus. John then expl…
Introduction
Introduction:Religion, Secularity, and African Writing Jeanne-Marie Jackson and Nathan Suhr-Sytsma Edward Said's apologia for "secular criticism," now more than three decades old, is at once an obvious and yet inescapable starting point from which to approach the question of the secular in postcolonial and area studies (Said 1–30). By "secular," Said meant that "texts are worldly, ... a part of the social world, human life, and of course the hist…
Interview with Elnathan John
After a contextualizing introduction, the following interview with the Nigerian writer Elnathan John explores the relation of his work to some key themes of this essay cluster: religious belief, social life, and the literary representation thereof. It begins by discussing the reception of John's novel Born on a Tuesday in light of the differences between Boko Haram as an international phenomenon and the novel's more regional focus. John then expl…
Introduction
Introduction:Religion, Secularity, and African Writing Jeanne-Marie Jackson and Nathan Suhr-Sytsma Edward Said's apologia for "secular criticism," now more than three decades old, is at once an obvious and yet inescapable starting point from which to approach the question of the secular in postcolonial and area studies (Said 1–30). By "secular," Said meant that "texts are worldly, ... a part of the social world, human life, and of course the hist…
Reading for the Region in New African Novels
This essay proposes that the region is a formally and epistemologically distinct scale through which to theorize the African novel. Intra-African migration becomes the trope whereby novels are marked by a regional consciousness; whether or not it is formally manifest, though, depends on what writers can conjure of migration’s concrete realities. Aviation, in particular—and the divisive fact of whether it is central to one’s movement—becomes decis…
Interview with Elnathan John
After a contextualizing introduction, the following interview with the Nigerian writer Elnathan John explores the relation of his work to some key themes of this essay cluster: religious belief, social life, and the literary representation thereof. It begins by discussing the reception of John's novel Born on a Tuesday in light of the differences between Boko Haram as an international phenomenon and the novel's more regional focus. John then expl…
Introduction
Introduction:Religion, Secularity, and African Writing Jeanne-Marie Jackson and Nathan Suhr-Sytsma Edward Said's apologia for "secular criticism," now more than three decades old, is at once an obvious and yet inescapable starting point from which to approach the question of the secular in postcolonial and area studies (Said 1–30). By "secular," Said meant that "texts are worldly, ... a part of the social world, human life, and of course the hist…
Reading for the Region in New African Novels
This essay proposes that the region is a formally and epistemologically distinct scale through which to theorize the African novel. Intra-African migration becomes the trope whereby novels are marked by a regional consciousness; whether or not it is formally manifest, though, depends on what writers can conjure of migration’s concrete realities. Aviation, in particular—and the divisive fact of whether it is central to one’s movement—becomes decis…
History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Cosmopolitanism (1 works)