Jenny Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5777719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8001-8179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Skirting the abyss: Eastern European space and the limits of German Holocaust memory
This article discusses some of the ambivalences that arise in Western efforts to represent Eastern Europe in the context of Holocaust memory. Focusing on German-language literature, I examine how tropes of boundlessness, violence and contamination derived from the pre-WWI colonialist vision of 'the East' reassert themselves in various eras of representation, including recent works inspired by contemporary historiography. While the embrace of 'dis…
Schnaps Aus Den Dunkelsten Pflaumen’: The Corruption of Nature and the Centrality of the Holocaust in the Work of Herta Müller
Herta Müller's work is permeated with images of death and violence associated with the natural world. Plants, processes of growth and decay, and even the earth itself are represented as sentient and threatening, as collaborators with the Ceauşescu regime and enemies of humanity. This trope, part of a wider denaturalisation of food, eating, and the natural cycle I term ‘obscene consumption’, is particularly evident in the novel Herztier , first pu…
Introduction: Herta Müller and the Currents of European History
Ten years on from the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature and thirty years after German reunification and the fall of the Ceauşescu regime in Romania is a fitting moment to revisit Herta Müller's work and place it within broader intellectual, geographical, and historical horizons than has hitherto been attempted.It is also time to reconcile
A Student's Guide to European Universities
Lena Krichewsky, Olivier Milhaud, Laura Pettinaroli & Marie Scot (Eds), Barbara Budrich, 2011,, ISBN 978-3-86649-3865, €36.00 (pbk), 506 pp. This edited volume has the subtitle ‘Sociology, Politica
Tony Wright on Doing Politics Differently: The Commentators
A Public Service Manager's View of the Public Servant
The Negro Graduate School
Skirting the abyss: Eastern European space and the limits of German Holocaust memory
This article discusses some of the ambivalences that arise in Western efforts to represent Eastern Europe in the context of Holocaust memory. Focusing on German-language literature, I examine how tropes of boundlessness, violence and contamination derived from the pre-WWI colonialist vision of 'the East' reassert themselves in various eras of representation, including recent works inspired by contemporary historiography. While the embrace of 'dis…
The Negro Graduate School
A Public Service Manager's View of the Public Servant
Tony Wright on Doing Politics Differently: The Commentators
A Student's Guide to European Universities
Lena Krichewsky, Olivier Milhaud, Laura Pettinaroli & Marie Scot (Eds), Barbara Budrich, 2011,, ISBN 978-3-86649-3865, €36.00 (pbk), 506 pp. This edited volume has the subtitle ‘Sociology, Politica
Schnaps Aus Den Dunkelsten Pflaumen’: The Corruption of Nature and the Centrality of the Holocaust in the Work of Herta Müller
Herta Müller's work is permeated with images of death and violence associated with the natural world. Plants, processes of growth and decay, and even the earth itself are represented as sentient and threatening, as collaborators with the Ceauşescu regime and enemies of humanity. This trope, part of a wider denaturalisation of food, eating, and the natural cycle I term ‘obscene consumption’, is particularly evident in the novel Herztier , first pu…
Introduction: Herta Müller and the Currents of European History
Ten years on from the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature and thirty years after German reunification and the fall of the Ceauşescu regime in Romania is a fitting moment to revisit Herta Müller's work and place it within broader intellectual, geographical, and historical horizons than has hitherto been attempted.It is also time to reconcile
Skirting the abyss: Eastern European space and the limits of German Holocaust memory
This article discusses some of the ambivalences that arise in Western efforts to represent Eastern Europe in the context of Holocaust memory. Focusing on German-language literature, I examine how tropes of boundlessness, violence and contamination derived from the pre-WWI colonialist vision of 'the East' reassert themselves in various eras of representation, including recent works inspired by contemporary historiography. While the embrace of 'dis…
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