Judith Misrahi-Barak
Biographic Data
| ID | 643495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Misrahi-Barak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Misrahi-Barak |
| SIGNATURE | MISRAHI-BARAK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Les Afriques dans le Monde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4628-0103 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thanatic ethics: Migrant death and communities of care: a transdisciplinary perspective
Although the so-called migrant crisis has been ongoing for over a decade now, instead of dealing with migrant deaths more empathetically, populist agendas around the world have led to a hardening of ‘us versus them' narratives and ever more restrictive migration policies. 2023 was the deadliest year on record, with 8565 migrant deaths, with actual numbers thought to be even higher. The re-election of Donald Trump in the United States, followed qu…
Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces
Introduction: From Death in Migration to Thanatic Ethics
Postcolonial studies has long sought to understand migration and displacement as empowering without acknowledging the material realities of refugee migrations. This Special Issue responds to what the co-editors see as the urgent need for postcolonial and migration studies in general, and diaspora studies in particular, to consider the consequences of restrictive migration policies. Perhaps an even greater scandal of postcolonial and migration stu…
Drifting as Consolation in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost deals with the exhumation and identification of bones in the context of the civil war in Sri Lanka. Sent by a human rights group to investigate mass burials, Sri Lankan-born and North American-educated Anil Tissera returns to her native island as a forensic anthropologist after 15 years away. Invested as she is in her job, Anil needs time to authorize herself to be affected by what she uncovers. The reconstruction …
Introduction: Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces
Postcolonial studies has long sought to understand migration and displacement as empowering without acknowledging the material realities of refugee migrations. This Special Issue responds to what the co-editors see as the urgent need for postcolonial and migration studies in general, and diaspora studies in particular, to consider the consequences of restrictive migration policies. Perhaps an even greater scandal of postcolonial and migration stu…
Unburials and Skeletal Reconstructions: Narrative as Forensics in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
Social scientists know how crucial it is to identify the bodies of the men, women and children who have died at sea or on land, or have been buried in mass burial grounds, and how consequential it is to engage (or not) in some form of ritual, of memorialization. If some scholars have focused on locating and numbering those victims, others have used forensic science to identify the bodies so that the families can get them back, engage in mourning …
Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora: Indian Perspectives
International audience
Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies
partnership with the Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and Its Legacies (ameenagafoorinstitute.org).The journal is a unique and unprecedented academic space where the study of indentureship, as a distinct form of unfree labour, can be analysed in all its forms.No such journal currently exists anywhere in the world, despite the critical importance of the system of indenture to world history.Through publishing Open Access, impo…
Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India’s Perspective
International audience
Narrative Strategies and the Deconstruction of Lies: Jan’s Journey on Board The Last Ship
people have remained in the background even though Caribbean people of Chinese ancestry have made important contributions to present-day Caribbean society. Anne-Marie Lee-Loy expresses this by saying, "Asianness, or more specifically . . . Chineseness, remains largely relegated to the realm of silences and suppressions or gestured to as merely an element of the greater 'cut and mix' that comprises Caribbeanness." 1 Scholars like Walton Look-Lai, …
Borders and Ecotones in the Indian Ocean: Cultural and Literary Perspectives
Les essais critiques réunis dans ce volume prennent leur ancrage dans l’océan Indien et explorent les multiples façons dont la dynamique des échanges a formé cette région multilingue, de l’Inde aux Mascareignes et au sud de l’Afrique. Frontières, bords et tiers espaces sont revisités à travers la notion d’écotone, une zone de transition entre deux écosystèmes. Si le terme a été surtout utilisé par les biologistes et les écologistes, l’angle métap…
Re-Imagining the Guyanas
French Guyane, Guyana and Suriname are not often focused on. Sometimes French Guyane is believed to be an island, and one often wonders where Guyana is situated, or Suriname. This collection of essays aims to increase the visibility of the Guyanas and more particularly of the three countries mentioned above. It also means to contribute to scholarship already published and share the knowledge across various disciplinary fields. It will question th…
Translating the Postcolonial in Multilingual Contexts
This collection of essays aims to contribute to scholarship already published in Translation Studies and Postcolonial Studies, endeavouring to question the traditional divide between these two academic strands and to bring them closer together in creative ways, across several geographical regions, linguistic contexts and historical circumstances. Moving away from a binary and dichotomous approach, the authors address these questions that link lin…
Interview with director Jayan K. Cherian
In this interview with Judith Misrahi-Barak and Nicole Thiara, Jayan K. Cherian discusses his work as an independent filmmaker in India and the USA, his artistic and political commitment, and the challenges he has faced with the Central Board of Film Certification in India after the release of his first feature film Papilio Buddha (2013), which focuses on Dalit land struggles in Kerala, and again with his second feature film KaBodyscapes (2016). …
Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’ 2: Diaspora, Memory and Intimacy
Dans le cadre de la série « Diasporas, Cultures de la mobilité, ‘Race’ », ce deuxième volume se propose de compléter les études sur le sujet au travers de regards croisés et interdisciplinaires sur la condition diasporique. Les thèmes du corps, de la mémoire et de l’intime se tissent tout au long du recueil afin d’en révéler et d’en transmettre toute la complexité. Dans le même ordre d’idées, l’impact de la déterritorialisation, inhérent aux phén…
Biopolitics and translation: Edwidge Danticat’s many tongues
Edwidge Danticat’s novel The Farming of Bones (1998) takes its epigraph from the Bible (Judges). The famous passage about the Shibboleth is indeed the best possible introduction to the novel since ‘le droit de passage, le laissez-passer’ is reserved to people who can be identified as belonging to a certain social and ethnic group because they speak in a certain way. The way a word is pronounced determines whether one lives or dies. From ancient t…
Exploring Trauma through the Memory of Text: Edwidge Danticat Listens to Jacques Stephen Alexis, Rita Dove, and René Philoctète
International audience
Looking In, Looking Out: The Chinese-Caribbean Diaspora through Literature—Meiling Jin, Patricia Powell, Jan Lowe Shinebourne
Few scholars have focused on the Chinese diaspora in the Caribbean, and it is only fairly recently that the literature written by Caribbean writers of Chinese origin has aroused interest. This essay interrogates the lack of visibility of Chinese-Caribbean writers, like Meiling Jin and Jan Shinebourne, whose ancestors arrived in Guyana in the nineteenth century as indentured workers, and are now considered to be Caribbean writers of Guyanese origi…
Diasporic agency and the power of literary form in Caribbean literature
Although Caribbean literature has been considered a diasporic literature for many decades now, it is only over the past 15 years that it has been examined through the diasporic lens. In this essay I suggest that literary form, literary devices, and genres and rhetorics are essential in the constitution of diasporic agency. Diasporic distance is often negotiated through an apparently binary organization of narrative space and time. Citing novels a…
Amerindianante-coloniality in contemporary Caribbean writing: Crossing borders with Jan Carew, Cyril Dabydeen and Pauline Melville
When speaking of the Caribbean, one often finds it difficult to reconcile the singular term used to refer to it and its linguistic, social, historical and aesthetic plurality. Even if the archipelago has shared similar experiences of traumatic transportation and indentureship, the specificities of each island have hindered the emergence of a shared Caribbean identity. Emphasis has been put on the extinction of the indigenous Amerindian peoples, b…
The educational-cultural edge: A participative learning environment for co-emergence of personal and institutional growth
Transport(s) in the British Empire and the Commonwealth
‘Transport’ is a delightfully open word; adding an ‘s’ to the original makes it even more interesting. The participants in the Conference which was organized on this topic by the Cerpac, early November 2005 at the Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier (France), explored several facets of the word. They started with ‘Means of transport’, in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. They then moved to ‘Forced transport’, which dealt with West African …
Revisiting Slave Narratives I: Les avatars contemporains des récits d’esclaves
One cannot fail to be impressed by the number of works of fiction relating to slavery and the slave trade, writing back to the original slave narratives of the 18th and 19th centuries. If the African-American authors of the 1960s and 1970s are now well-known, they find an echo in works written more recently in the 1980s and 1990s by American, African, African-American and Caribbean writers. About twenty writers come under the scrutiny of renowned…
The educational-cultural edge: A participative learning environment for co-emergence of personal and institutional growth
Exploring Trauma through the Memory of Text: Edwidge Danticat Listens to Jacques Stephen Alexis, Rita Dove, and René Philoctète
International audience
Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies
partnership with the Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and Its Legacies (ameenagafoorinstitute.org).The journal is a unique and unprecedented academic space where the study of indentureship, as a distinct form of unfree labour, can be analysed in all its forms.No such journal currently exists anywhere in the world, despite the critical importance of the system of indenture to world history.Through publishing Open Access, impo…
Borders and Ecotones in the Indian Ocean: Cultural and Literary Perspectives
Les essais critiques réunis dans ce volume prennent leur ancrage dans l’océan Indien et explorent les multiples façons dont la dynamique des échanges a formé cette région multilingue, de l’Inde aux Mascareignes et au sud de l’Afrique. Frontières, bords et tiers espaces sont revisités à travers la notion d’écotone, une zone de transition entre deux écosystèmes. Si le terme a été surtout utilisé par les biologistes et les écologistes, l’angle métap…
Biopolitics and translation: Edwidge Danticat’s many tongues
Edwidge Danticat’s novel The Farming of Bones (1998) takes its epigraph from the Bible (Judges). The famous passage about the Shibboleth is indeed the best possible introduction to the novel since ‘le droit de passage, le laissez-passer’ is reserved to people who can be identified as belonging to a certain social and ethnic group because they speak in a certain way. The way a word is pronounced determines whether one lives or dies. From ancient t…
Revisiting Slave Narratives I: Les avatars contemporains des récits d’esclaves
One cannot fail to be impressed by the number of works of fiction relating to slavery and the slave trade, writing back to the original slave narratives of the 18th and 19th centuries. If the African-American authors of the 1960s and 1970s are now well-known, they find an echo in works written more recently in the 1980s and 1990s by American, African, African-American and Caribbean writers. About twenty writers come under the scrutiny of renowned…
Transport(s) in the British Empire and the Commonwealth
‘Transport’ is a delightfully open word; adding an ‘s’ to the original makes it even more interesting. The participants in the Conference which was organized on this topic by the Cerpac, early November 2005 at the Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier (France), explored several facets of the word. They started with ‘Means of transport’, in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. They then moved to ‘Forced transport’, which dealt with West African …
The educational-cultural edge: A participative learning environment for co-emergence of personal and institutional growth
Amerindianante-coloniality in contemporary Caribbean writing: Crossing borders with Jan Carew, Cyril Dabydeen and Pauline Melville
When speaking of the Caribbean, one often finds it difficult to reconcile the singular term used to refer to it and its linguistic, social, historical and aesthetic plurality. Even if the archipelago has shared similar experiences of traumatic transportation and indentureship, the specificities of each island have hindered the emergence of a shared Caribbean identity. Emphasis has been put on the extinction of the indigenous Amerindian peoples, b…
Looking In, Looking Out: The Chinese-Caribbean Diaspora through Literature—Meiling Jin, Patricia Powell, Jan Lowe Shinebourne
Few scholars have focused on the Chinese diaspora in the Caribbean, and it is only fairly recently that the literature written by Caribbean writers of Chinese origin has aroused interest. This essay interrogates the lack of visibility of Chinese-Caribbean writers, like Meiling Jin and Jan Shinebourne, whose ancestors arrived in Guyana in the nineteenth century as indentured workers, and are now considered to be Caribbean writers of Guyanese origi…
Diasporic agency and the power of literary form in Caribbean literature
Although Caribbean literature has been considered a diasporic literature for many decades now, it is only over the past 15 years that it has been examined through the diasporic lens. In this essay I suggest that literary form, literary devices, and genres and rhetorics are essential in the constitution of diasporic agency. Diasporic distance is often negotiated through an apparently binary organization of narrative space and time. Citing novels a…
Exploring Trauma through the Memory of Text: Edwidge Danticat Listens to Jacques Stephen Alexis, Rita Dove, and René Philoctète
International audience
Biopolitics and translation: Edwidge Danticat’s many tongues
Edwidge Danticat’s novel The Farming of Bones (1998) takes its epigraph from the Bible (Judges). The famous passage about the Shibboleth is indeed the best possible introduction to the novel since ‘le droit de passage, le laissez-passer’ is reserved to people who can be identified as belonging to a certain social and ethnic group because they speak in a certain way. The way a word is pronounced determines whether one lives or dies. From ancient t…
Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’ 2: Diaspora, Memory and Intimacy
Dans le cadre de la série « Diasporas, Cultures de la mobilité, ‘Race’ », ce deuxième volume se propose de compléter les études sur le sujet au travers de regards croisés et interdisciplinaires sur la condition diasporique. Les thèmes du corps, de la mémoire et de l’intime se tissent tout au long du recueil afin d’en révéler et d’en transmettre toute la complexité. Dans le même ordre d’idées, l’impact de la déterritorialisation, inhérent aux phén…
Translating the Postcolonial in Multilingual Contexts
This collection of essays aims to contribute to scholarship already published in Translation Studies and Postcolonial Studies, endeavouring to question the traditional divide between these two academic strands and to bring them closer together in creative ways, across several geographical regions, linguistic contexts and historical circumstances. Moving away from a binary and dichotomous approach, the authors address these questions that link lin…
Interview with director Jayan K. Cherian
In this interview with Judith Misrahi-Barak and Nicole Thiara, Jayan K. Cherian discusses his work as an independent filmmaker in India and the USA, his artistic and political commitment, and the challenges he has faced with the Central Board of Film Certification in India after the release of his first feature film Papilio Buddha (2013), which focuses on Dalit land struggles in Kerala, and again with his second feature film KaBodyscapes (2016). …
Re-Imagining the Guyanas
French Guyane, Guyana and Suriname are not often focused on. Sometimes French Guyane is believed to be an island, and one often wonders where Guyana is situated, or Suriname. This collection of essays aims to increase the visibility of the Guyanas and more particularly of the three countries mentioned above. It also means to contribute to scholarship already published and share the knowledge across various disciplinary fields. It will question th…
Borders and Ecotones in the Indian Ocean: Cultural and Literary Perspectives
Les essais critiques réunis dans ce volume prennent leur ancrage dans l’océan Indien et explorent les multiples façons dont la dynamique des échanges a formé cette région multilingue, de l’Inde aux Mascareignes et au sud de l’Afrique. Frontières, bords et tiers espaces sont revisités à travers la notion d’écotone, une zone de transition entre deux écosystèmes. Si le terme a été surtout utilisé par les biologistes et les écologistes, l’angle métap…
Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India’s Perspective
International audience
Narrative Strategies and the Deconstruction of Lies: Jan’s Journey on Board The Last Ship
people have remained in the background even though Caribbean people of Chinese ancestry have made important contributions to present-day Caribbean society. Anne-Marie Lee-Loy expresses this by saying, "Asianness, or more specifically . . . Chineseness, remains largely relegated to the realm of silences and suppressions or gestured to as merely an element of the greater 'cut and mix' that comprises Caribbeanness." 1 Scholars like Walton Look-Lai, …
Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies
partnership with the Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship and Its Legacies (ameenagafoorinstitute.org).The journal is a unique and unprecedented academic space where the study of indentureship, as a distinct form of unfree labour, can be analysed in all its forms.No such journal currently exists anywhere in the world, despite the critical importance of the system of indenture to world history.Through publishing Open Access, impo…
Unburials and Skeletal Reconstructions: Narrative as Forensics in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
Social scientists know how crucial it is to identify the bodies of the men, women and children who have died at sea or on land, or have been buried in mass burial grounds, and how consequential it is to engage (or not) in some form of ritual, of memorialization. If some scholars have focused on locating and numbering those victims, others have used forensic science to identify the bodies so that the families can get them back, engage in mourning …
Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora: Indian Perspectives
International audience
Drifting as Consolation in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost deals with the exhumation and identification of bones in the context of the civil war in Sri Lanka. Sent by a human rights group to investigate mass burials, Sri Lankan-born and North American-educated Anil Tissera returns to her native island as a forensic anthropologist after 15 years away. Invested as she is in her job, Anil needs time to authorize herself to be affected by what she uncovers. The reconstruction …
Introduction: Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces
Postcolonial studies has long sought to understand migration and displacement as empowering without acknowledging the material realities of refugee migrations. This Special Issue responds to what the co-editors see as the urgent need for postcolonial and migration studies in general, and diaspora studies in particular, to consider the consequences of restrictive migration policies. Perhaps an even greater scandal of postcolonial and migration stu…
Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces
Introduction: From Death in Migration to Thanatic Ethics
Postcolonial studies has long sought to understand migration and displacement as empowering without acknowledging the material realities of refugee migrations. This Special Issue responds to what the co-editors see as the urgent need for postcolonial and migration studies in general, and diaspora studies in particular, to consider the consequences of restrictive migration policies. Perhaps an even greater scandal of postcolonial and migration stu…
Thanatic ethics: Migrant death and communities of care: a transdisciplinary perspective
Although the so-called migrant crisis has been ongoing for over a decade now, instead of dealing with migrant deaths more empathetically, populist agendas around the world have led to a hardening of ‘us versus them' narratives and ever more restrictive migration policies. 2023 was the deadliest year on record, with 8565 migrant deaths, with actual numbers thought to be even higher. The re-election of Donald Trump in the United States, followed qu…
History (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · History (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Diaspora (5 works) · Ethnology (5 works)