Cullen Goldblatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 635649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cullen Goldblatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cullen |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldblatt |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBLATT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9700-9244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queens of the Mother City
What political imaginaries have existed beyond the nation-state? What might the misfitting (queer?) materials of the past—those unamenable to inclusion in narratives of national resistance—teach us about colonial and apartheid pasts? What alternatives to the colony and its contemporary forms might we imagine now? To respond to these questions, this essay assembles an archive of twentieth-century Capetonian queenliness, placing the historical Quee…
Beyond Collective Memory
Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under apartheid, have epitomized a shared "memory" of racist violence and resistant community. Analyzing diverse cultural texts surrounding both places, thi…
Imperial Humanist Critique on the Margins of African Canons
Bakary Diallo, born in colonial Senegal, authored the much-neglected first work of Francophone African literature. The prolific South African Richard Rive was well-recognized during his lifetime, principally for his short fiction. Diallo and Rive, in many ways different writers, today nonetheless share a particular location on the outskirts of contemporary African literary canons. This essay explores why, and with what consequences, they have bee…
Setting readers at sea
Fatou Diome’s first novel, Le Ventre de l’Atlantique (2003), can be read as a work of migrant literature in which the Atlantic figures as a separating expanse beholden to a single past, that of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The ocean divides contemporary African migrants to Europe from the continent, as it did enslaved Africans taken forcibly to the Americas; it consumes a returned impoverished migrant, as it swallowed those who did not survive the M…
Beyond the "memory" of apartheid
This article builds upon critiques of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, asserting that the Commission “recalled” apartheid violence in the dichotomous terms of perpetrator and victim that have served to obscure the structural character of violence before and after 1994. The literary texts this article analyses – the novel “Buckingham Palace”, District Six (1986) and the short story “Riva” (1983), both by the Capetonian author Ri…
Toward the Space between Words and Things
Research Article| September 01 2014 Toward the Space between Words and Things: Omar Blondin Diop (Died in Detention) Cullen Goldblatt Cullen Goldblatt University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Cullen Goldblatt is a Dissertation Fellow at the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. Building on theoretical work on atrocity, complicity, and place, his work proposes, and uses, a lens of complicity…
Neighborhood history as a factor shaping syringe distribution networks among drug users at a U.S. syringe exchange
Patterns of sexual commerce among women at US Syringe Exchange Programs
In the USA, the majority of research on sex work has examined the experiences of women recruited from social locations commonly referred to as the 'sex industry', such as street strolls or escort services. This paper presents data from female syringe exchange participants who had sold sex in the last 30 days. The women interviewed for this study report a much broader array of commercial transactions than found in previous US studies, including se…
Neighborhood history as a factor shaping syringe distribution networks among drug users at a U.S. syringe exchange
Beyond the "memory" of apartheid
This article builds upon critiques of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, asserting that the Commission “recalled” apartheid violence in the dichotomous terms of perpetrator and victim that have served to obscure the structural character of violence before and after 1994. The literary texts this article analyses – the novel “Buckingham Palace”, District Six (1986) and the short story “Riva” (1983), both by the Capetonian author Ri…
Setting readers at sea
Fatou Diome’s first novel, Le Ventre de l’Atlantique (2003), can be read as a work of migrant literature in which the Atlantic figures as a separating expanse beholden to a single past, that of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The ocean divides contemporary African migrants to Europe from the continent, as it did enslaved Africans taken forcibly to the Americas; it consumes a returned impoverished migrant, as it swallowed those who did not survive the M…
Patterns of sexual commerce among women at US Syringe Exchange Programs
In the USA, the majority of research on sex work has examined the experiences of women recruited from social locations commonly referred to as the 'sex industry', such as street strolls or escort services. This paper presents data from female syringe exchange participants who had sold sex in the last 30 days. The women interviewed for this study report a much broader array of commercial transactions than found in previous US studies, including se…
Neighborhood history as a factor shaping syringe distribution networks among drug users at a U.S. syringe exchange
Toward the Space between Words and Things
Research Article| September 01 2014 Toward the Space between Words and Things: Omar Blondin Diop (Died in Detention) Cullen Goldblatt Cullen Goldblatt University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Cullen Goldblatt is a Dissertation Fellow at the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. Building on theoretical work on atrocity, complicity, and place, his work proposes, and uses, a lens of complicity…
Beyond the "memory" of apartheid
This article builds upon critiques of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, asserting that the Commission “recalled” apartheid violence in the dichotomous terms of perpetrator and victim that have served to obscure the structural character of violence before and after 1994. The literary texts this article analyses – the novel “Buckingham Palace”, District Six (1986) and the short story “Riva” (1983), both by the Capetonian author Ri…
Setting readers at sea
Fatou Diome’s first novel, Le Ventre de l’Atlantique (2003), can be read as a work of migrant literature in which the Atlantic figures as a separating expanse beholden to a single past, that of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The ocean divides contemporary African migrants to Europe from the continent, as it did enslaved Africans taken forcibly to the Americas; it consumes a returned impoverished migrant, as it swallowed those who did not survive the M…
Beyond Collective Memory
Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under apartheid, have epitomized a shared "memory" of racist violence and resistant community. Analyzing diverse cultural texts surrounding both places, thi…
Imperial Humanist Critique on the Margins of African Canons
Bakary Diallo, born in colonial Senegal, authored the much-neglected first work of Francophone African literature. The prolific South African Richard Rive was well-recognized during his lifetime, principally for his short fiction. Diallo and Rive, in many ways different writers, today nonetheless share a particular location on the outskirts of contemporary African literary canons. This essay explores why, and with what consequences, they have bee…
Queens of the Mother City
What political imaginaries have existed beyond the nation-state? What might the misfitting (queer?) materials of the past—those unamenable to inclusion in narratives of national resistance—teach us about colonial and apartheid pasts? What alternatives to the colony and its contemporary forms might we imagine now? To respond to these questions, this essay assembles an archive of twentieth-century Capetonian queenliness, placing the historical Quee…
Sociology (6 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works)