Anna Hartnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 642427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Hartnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Hartnell |
| SIGNATURE | HARTNELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0486-2201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interstellar Migration, the Population ‘Problem’ and the Climate Emergency
suggested that Nolan's film 'plainly states that American ingenuity can save the world'. 5en years on, against the backdrop of a deepening climate crisis and in an era in which space travel is once again back on the international agenda, the stakes of the issues raised by Interstellar are exponentially higher.What does 'techno-optimism' mean and is its ultimate vision of 'interplanetary' humanity antithetical to environmentalism?What is the ecolo…
Bart
This is a personal reflection on Bart Moore-Gilbert's career as an academic and a writer, written by Bart's wife. It suggests that Bart's interests in the politics of postcolonial literature and theory originated in his childhood experiences of colonial Tanganyika, and thus reflected deeply felt political commitments
Special issue on Bart Moore-Gilbert
This special issue of Interventions is dedicated to the work of Bart Moore-Gilbert, who died in 2015. For most of his academic career, Bart taught and wrote about various aspects of the postcolonia
After Katrina: Race, Neoliberalism, and the End of the American Century
Writing the liquid city: Excavating urban ecologies after Katrina
Water has long been a repressed aspect of the New Orleans landscape. Levees have artificially controlled not just the Mississippi but the vast network of canals and waterways that carve up the city. Floods are experienced as a traumatic intrusion. And yet New Orleans is sinking while the waters surrounding it continue to rise. This essay explores this partial cultural amnesia with regard to water through two key post-Hurricane Katrina texts: Benh…
When the Levees Broke: Inconvenient Truths and the Limits of National Identity
Today, the people living along the Gulf Coast continue their daily struggle to rebuild, revive, and renew in these United States of America (opening dedication of When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts) Introduction Spike Lee's epic documentary testifies to the inconvenient truths that enabled the social disaster so spectacularly showcased by Hurricane Katrina. Where Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (2006) highlights the often willful blind…
Rebranding America: Race, Religion, and Nation in Obama's Social Justice Rhetoric
Mobilizing Michael Hanchard’s important distinction between ‘black memory’ and ‘state memory’, this article explores the extent to which Obama’s social justice rhetoric subordinates Civil Rights memory to the needs of state memory. I suggest that Obama’s attempt to mobilize Civil Rights memory as a vehicle for his election campaign and as a symbol for America not only threatens its domestication but also defies the post-Civil Rights racist backla…
Moving through America: Race, place and resistance in Mohsin Hamid'sThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
This article explores Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist in the context of debates about US multiculturalism after 9/11. It suggests that while Hamid's novel undoubtedly identifies and critiques the racism at the heart of the so‐called war on terror – expressed both in domestic and foreign arenas – his text also appears to be seduced by certain aspects of American exceptionalism. Though the novel in part paints US imperial power as heir …
Katrina Tourism and a Tale of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans
This essay explores new forms of tourism that have emerged in post-Katrina New Orleans. It begins by looking at the ways in which the city's long history of commodifying black culture for predominantly white tourists has enabled the existence of two parallel worlds. Though distinct, these worlds are defined by a necessarily precarious boundary which allows New Orleans's tourists to experience African American culture "up close." The voyeurism of …
Between Exodus and Egypt: Malcolm X, Islam, and the natural religion of the oppressed
Malcolm X's life and career offers a window through which to analyze the interactions between race and religion in the post-slavery experience of African Americans. This essay traces the trajectory of Malcolm's two religious conversions, and his evolving sense that Christianity is the backbone of white supremacy and western imperialism, where Islam is the natural religion of the oppressed. This journey, I suggest, features the eclipse of the Exod…
Exodus as Travelling Theory: Excavating the Promised Land in the African American Imagination
This essay won the 2006 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize, American Section. Exodus , this article suggests, is one of the defining texts through which Americans have imaginatively re‐mapped the nation's relationship to the spectre of ‘Egyptian’ oppression. This article proposes to consider the evolution of the Exodus text from its pivotal place in an often imperialist presidential rhetoric to its central position in African American elabor…
Imagining Exodus for Israel-Palestine: Reading the Secular and the Sacred, Diaspora and Homeland, in Edward Said and David Grossman
This paper takes as its starting point Edward Said's distinction between 'religious' and 'secular' modes of cultural affiliation. As these simultaneously diverging and converging modes also trammel the particular grounds of thinking that have been Said's natural target of criticism - Zionism - his work speaks particularly powerfully to the debate surrounding the religious genealogy of Jewish identity. This paper argues that Said's interventions o…
Moving through America: Race, place and resistance in Mohsin Hamid'sThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
This article explores Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist in the context of debates about US multiculturalism after 9/11. It suggests that while Hamid's novel undoubtedly identifies and critiques the racism at the heart of the so‐called war on terror – expressed both in domestic and foreign arenas – his text also appears to be seduced by certain aspects of American exceptionalism. Though the novel in part paints US imperial power as heir …
Katrina Tourism and a Tale of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans
This essay explores new forms of tourism that have emerged in post-Katrina New Orleans. It begins by looking at the ways in which the city's long history of commodifying black culture for predominantly white tourists has enabled the existence of two parallel worlds. Though distinct, these worlds are defined by a necessarily precarious boundary which allows New Orleans's tourists to experience African American culture "up close." The voyeurism of …
Writing the liquid city: Excavating urban ecologies after Katrina
Water has long been a repressed aspect of the New Orleans landscape. Levees have artificially controlled not just the Mississippi but the vast network of canals and waterways that carve up the city. Floods are experienced as a traumatic intrusion. And yet New Orleans is sinking while the waters surrounding it continue to rise. This essay explores this partial cultural amnesia with regard to water through two key post-Hurricane Katrina texts: Benh…
Between Exodus and Egypt: Malcolm X, Islam, and the natural religion of the oppressed
Malcolm X's life and career offers a window through which to analyze the interactions between race and religion in the post-slavery experience of African Americans. This essay traces the trajectory of Malcolm's two religious conversions, and his evolving sense that Christianity is the backbone of white supremacy and western imperialism, where Islam is the natural religion of the oppressed. This journey, I suggest, features the eclipse of the Exod…
Imagining Exodus for Israel-Palestine: Reading the Secular and the Sacred, Diaspora and Homeland, in Edward Said and David Grossman
This paper takes as its starting point Edward Said's distinction between 'religious' and 'secular' modes of cultural affiliation. As these simultaneously diverging and converging modes also trammel the particular grounds of thinking that have been Said's natural target of criticism - Zionism - his work speaks particularly powerfully to the debate surrounding the religious genealogy of Jewish identity. This paper argues that Said's interventions o…
Exodus as Travelling Theory: Excavating the Promised Land in the African American Imagination
This essay won the 2006 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize, American Section. Exodus , this article suggests, is one of the defining texts through which Americans have imaginatively re‐mapped the nation's relationship to the spectre of ‘Egyptian’ oppression. This article proposes to consider the evolution of the Exodus text from its pivotal place in an often imperialist presidential rhetoric to its central position in African American elabor…
Between Exodus and Egypt: Malcolm X, Islam, and the natural religion of the oppressed
Malcolm X's life and career offers a window through which to analyze the interactions between race and religion in the post-slavery experience of African Americans. This essay traces the trajectory of Malcolm's two religious conversions, and his evolving sense that Christianity is the backbone of white supremacy and western imperialism, where Islam is the natural religion of the oppressed. This journey, I suggest, features the eclipse of the Exod…
Katrina Tourism and a Tale of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans
This essay explores new forms of tourism that have emerged in post-Katrina New Orleans. It begins by looking at the ways in which the city's long history of commodifying black culture for predominantly white tourists has enabled the existence of two parallel worlds. Though distinct, these worlds are defined by a necessarily precarious boundary which allows New Orleans's tourists to experience African American culture "up close." The voyeurism of …
Moving through America: Race, place and resistance in Mohsin Hamid'sThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
This article explores Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist in the context of debates about US multiculturalism after 9/11. It suggests that while Hamid's novel undoubtedly identifies and critiques the racism at the heart of the so‐called war on terror – expressed both in domestic and foreign arenas – his text also appears to be seduced by certain aspects of American exceptionalism. Though the novel in part paints US imperial power as heir …
When the Levees Broke: Inconvenient Truths and the Limits of National Identity
Today, the people living along the Gulf Coast continue their daily struggle to rebuild, revive, and renew in these United States of America (opening dedication of When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts) Introduction Spike Lee's epic documentary testifies to the inconvenient truths that enabled the social disaster so spectacularly showcased by Hurricane Katrina. Where Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (2006) highlights the often willful blind…
Rebranding America: Race, Religion, and Nation in Obama's Social Justice Rhetoric
Mobilizing Michael Hanchard’s important distinction between ‘black memory’ and ‘state memory’, this article explores the extent to which Obama’s social justice rhetoric subordinates Civil Rights memory to the needs of state memory. I suggest that Obama’s attempt to mobilize Civil Rights memory as a vehicle for his election campaign and as a symbol for America not only threatens its domestication but also defies the post-Civil Rights racist backla…
After Katrina: Race, Neoliberalism, and the End of the American Century
Writing the liquid city: Excavating urban ecologies after Katrina
Water has long been a repressed aspect of the New Orleans landscape. Levees have artificially controlled not just the Mississippi but the vast network of canals and waterways that carve up the city. Floods are experienced as a traumatic intrusion. And yet New Orleans is sinking while the waters surrounding it continue to rise. This essay explores this partial cultural amnesia with regard to water through two key post-Hurricane Katrina texts: Benh…
Bart
This is a personal reflection on Bart Moore-Gilbert's career as an academic and a writer, written by Bart's wife. It suggests that Bart's interests in the politics of postcolonial literature and theory originated in his childhood experiences of colonial Tanganyika, and thus reflected deeply felt political commitments
Special issue on Bart Moore-Gilbert
This special issue of Interventions is dedicated to the work of Bart Moore-Gilbert, who died in 2015. For most of his academic career, Bart taught and wrote about various aspects of the postcolonia
Interstellar Migration, the Population ‘Problem’ and the Climate Emergency
suggested that Nolan's film 'plainly states that American ingenuity can save the world'. 5en years on, against the backdrop of a deepening climate crisis and in an era in which space travel is once again back on the international agenda, the stakes of the issues raised by Interstellar are exponentially higher.What does 'techno-optimism' mean and is its ultimate vision of 'interplanetary' humanity antithetical to environmentalism?What is the ecolo…
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