Maureen Moynagh
Biographic Data
| ID | 642312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen Moynagh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen |
| FAMILY NAME | Moynagh |
| SIGNATURE | MOYNAGH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Francis Xavier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8092-9623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
(Un)Sympathetic Species: Kin and Kind in Teju Cole’s Open City
Teju Cole’s Open City is one of several recent postcolonial novels that narrate the refugee crisis and the threats to nonhuman species in a way that takes seriously the parallels and interspecies relationships. I am interested in the extent to which novels that explore kinships across boundaries of kind manage to make a space for the nonhuman in the anthropocentric form of the novel. In the case of Open City , I argue that Cole’s figural approach…
“Say It in Broken English”: The Languages of Border Crossing and Hospitality
Drawing on Derrida’s and Ricoeur’s theories of language and hospitality, the author takes up the problem of the hostility embedded in the discourses of welcome when it comes to migrants’ experiences of border regimes and border practices. “Broken English,” in this context, represents a site of conflict: a vehicular language to be avoided or overcome, a “language of refuge,” even a means of forming a community. To explore language as alternative t…
Frames of War: Thinking Child-Soldier Photography
In this article I examine three approaches to photographing the child soldier that attempt to challenge dominant discursive framings of this troubling historical figure. Drawing in part on Ariella Azoulay’s concept of the event of photography, I analyze the work of three contemporary photographers—Stuart Freedman, Richard Mosse and Guy Tillim—who have taken the child soldier as their subject and I argue that there are ways of approaching the temp…
Speculative Pasts and Afro-Futures: Nalo Hopkinson's Trans-American Imaginary
This article situates Nalo Hopkinson's speculative fiction in relation to Afrofuturism and to a corpus of fiction by writers like Colson Whitehead, Junot Díaz, and Kiese Laymon that incorporate elements of science fiction and fantasy in works that otherwise employ realist conventions. Against the notion that the latter body of writing is better suited to exposing the gap between liberal ideals and pervasive structures of racism in the Americas, I…
Making and Unmaking: Child-Soldier Memoirs and Human Rights Readers
This essay examines the ways child-soldier memoirs refashion the conventions of the quest-romance as a means of claiming political agency for the former child soldiers, even as the romance structure serves the readers of the memoirs differently, and in ways that threaten to compromise the political work the memoirists undertake
Afropolitan Travels
Political Futurity and the Child-soldier Figure: A Romance of Globalization
The vision of the universal child encapsulated in the international human rights declarations and conventions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is meant to transcend political divides in order to protect the child in the interest of political futurity. This is precisely the vision humanitarian agents appeal to in their efforts to intervene on behalf of child soldiers. Yet the child-soldier figure dramatizes not only the extent to which …
Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume II Canada - National and Transnational Contexts
Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents
Using primary documents dating from the abolitionist movement to the Second World War, Maureen Moynagh and Nancy Forestell investigate the tensions inherent in organizing early transnational feminist movements.
The Melancholic Structure of Memory in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon
In this paper I argue that the melancholic approach to the losses of slavery and colonialism in Dionne Brand's novel At the Full and Change of the Moon offers a critique of the exclusions and disavowals of modernity. Both in her novel and in her memoir A Map to the Door of No Return Brand represents the black diaspora in the Americas as an allegory about the incorporation of loss and links worldly losses to their psychic remains. She does not the…
Eyeing the north star: Figuring Canada in postslavery fiction and drama
This article argues that a comparative, diasporic poetics is essential to an analysis of 'postslavery' literature in Canada. The transnational history of slavery links Canada to other British colonies in the Caribbean as well as to the USA, and contemporary African-Canadian writers share in and draw on a diasporic literary legacy. I focus on the trope of genealogy in three works – George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy, Lawrence Hill's Any Known…
Revolutionary Drag in Auden and Isherwood's Journey to a War
Drawing on the work that Marjorie Garber and Judith Butler have done on drag, I argue that Auden and Isherwood queer the 1930s discourse on political tourism through their camp performance of revolution in Journey to a War. Reading their travel book in these terms offers a way to think about the affective engagement with political ideology and cultural difference that characterises political tourism, insofar as taking on particular roles in solid…
“This history’s only good for anger”: Gender and Cultural Memory in Beatrice Chancy
Speculative Pasts and Afro-Futures: Nalo Hopkinson's Trans-American Imaginary
This article situates Nalo Hopkinson's speculative fiction in relation to Afrofuturism and to a corpus of fiction by writers like Colson Whitehead, Junot Díaz, and Kiese Laymon that incorporate elements of science fiction and fantasy in works that otherwise employ realist conventions. Against the notion that the latter body of writing is better suited to exposing the gap between liberal ideals and pervasive structures of racism in the Americas, I…
Making and Unmaking: Child-Soldier Memoirs and Human Rights Readers
This essay examines the ways child-soldier memoirs refashion the conventions of the quest-romance as a means of claiming political agency for the former child soldiers, even as the romance structure serves the readers of the memoirs differently, and in ways that threaten to compromise the political work the memoirists undertake
The Melancholic Structure of Memory in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon
In this paper I argue that the melancholic approach to the losses of slavery and colonialism in Dionne Brand's novel At the Full and Change of the Moon offers a critique of the exclusions and disavowals of modernity. Both in her novel and in her memoir A Map to the Door of No Return Brand represents the black diaspora in the Americas as an allegory about the incorporation of loss and links worldly losses to their psychic remains. She does not the…
Eyeing the north star: Figuring Canada in postslavery fiction and drama
This article argues that a comparative, diasporic poetics is essential to an analysis of 'postslavery' literature in Canada. The transnational history of slavery links Canada to other British colonies in the Caribbean as well as to the USA, and contemporary African-Canadian writers share in and draw on a diasporic literary legacy. I focus on the trope of genealogy in three works – George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy, Lawrence Hill's Any Known…
“This history’s only good for anger”: Gender and Cultural Memory in Beatrice Chancy
Revolutionary Drag in Auden and Isherwood's Journey to a War
Drawing on the work that Marjorie Garber and Judith Butler have done on drag, I argue that Auden and Isherwood queer the 1930s discourse on political tourism through their camp performance of revolution in Journey to a War. Reading their travel book in these terms offers a way to think about the affective engagement with political ideology and cultural difference that characterises political tourism, insofar as taking on particular roles in solid…
Eyeing the north star: Figuring Canada in postslavery fiction and drama
This article argues that a comparative, diasporic poetics is essential to an analysis of 'postslavery' literature in Canada. The transnational history of slavery links Canada to other British colonies in the Caribbean as well as to the USA, and contemporary African-Canadian writers share in and draw on a diasporic literary legacy. I focus on the trope of genealogy in three works – George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy, Lawrence Hill's Any Known…
The Melancholic Structure of Memory in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon
In this paper I argue that the melancholic approach to the losses of slavery and colonialism in Dionne Brand's novel At the Full and Change of the Moon offers a critique of the exclusions and disavowals of modernity. Both in her novel and in her memoir A Map to the Door of No Return Brand represents the black diaspora in the Americas as an allegory about the incorporation of loss and links worldly losses to their psychic remains. She does not the…
Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume 1: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents
Using primary documents dating from the abolitionist movement to the Second World War, Maureen Moynagh and Nancy Forestell investigate the tensions inherent in organizing early transnational feminist movements.
Documenting First Wave Feminisms: Volume II Canada - National and Transnational Contexts
Political Futurity and the Child-soldier Figure: A Romance of Globalization
The vision of the universal child encapsulated in the international human rights declarations and conventions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is meant to transcend political divides in order to protect the child in the interest of political futurity. This is precisely the vision humanitarian agents appeal to in their efforts to intervene on behalf of child soldiers. Yet the child-soldier figure dramatizes not only the extent to which …
Afropolitan Travels
Making and Unmaking: Child-Soldier Memoirs and Human Rights Readers
This essay examines the ways child-soldier memoirs refashion the conventions of the quest-romance as a means of claiming political agency for the former child soldiers, even as the romance structure serves the readers of the memoirs differently, and in ways that threaten to compromise the political work the memoirists undertake
Speculative Pasts and Afro-Futures: Nalo Hopkinson's Trans-American Imaginary
This article situates Nalo Hopkinson's speculative fiction in relation to Afrofuturism and to a corpus of fiction by writers like Colson Whitehead, Junot Díaz, and Kiese Laymon that incorporate elements of science fiction and fantasy in works that otherwise employ realist conventions. Against the notion that the latter body of writing is better suited to exposing the gap between liberal ideals and pervasive structures of racism in the Americas, I…
Frames of War: Thinking Child-Soldier Photography
In this article I examine three approaches to photographing the child soldier that attempt to challenge dominant discursive framings of this troubling historical figure. Drawing in part on Ariella Azoulay’s concept of the event of photography, I analyze the work of three contemporary photographers—Stuart Freedman, Richard Mosse and Guy Tillim—who have taken the child soldier as their subject and I argue that there are ways of approaching the temp…
“Say It in Broken English”: The Languages of Border Crossing and Hospitality
Drawing on Derrida’s and Ricoeur’s theories of language and hospitality, the author takes up the problem of the hostility embedded in the discourses of welcome when it comes to migrants’ experiences of border regimes and border practices. “Broken English,” in this context, represents a site of conflict: a vehicular language to be avoided or overcome, a “language of refuge,” even a means of forming a community. To explore language as alternative t…
(Un)Sympathetic Species: Kin and Kind in Teju Cole’s Open City
Teju Cole’s Open City is one of several recent postcolonial novels that narrate the refugee crisis and the threats to nonhuman species in a way that takes seriously the parallels and interspecies relationships. I am interested in the extent to which novels that explore kinships across boundaries of kind manage to make a space for the nonhuman in the anthropocentric form of the novel. In the case of Open City , I argue that Cole’s figural approach…
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