Sarah Ilott
Biographic Data
| ID | 643521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Ilott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Ilott |
| SIGNATURE | ILOTT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Teesside University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4373-6037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity
Gender, sexuality and the body in comedy: Performance, reiteration, resistance
Comedy has an important political role in entrenching or overturning existing hierarchies of power, and these are identified through reading strategies that take seriously questions of representation. This was the logic behind the organisation of ‘Mock the Weak: Comedy and the Politics of Representation’, the conference that birthed the papers collected in this special edition. Co-organised by Dr Helen Davies and Dr Sarah Ilott (that’s us!), the …
British Asian diasporic writing: Construction and representation of identities
The two books considered here both engage with South Asian Diasporas in Britain, focussing on 'writing' as a means of exploring the construction and representation of identities.The books share an understanding of Britain as a postcolonial country, shaped by its status as a former colonial power and by waves of migration from former colonies.However, the works diverge significantly in terms of subject matter and methodology.Ahmed's monograph is a…
How is these kids meant to make it out the ghetto now?” Community cohesion and communities of laughter in British multicultural comedy
This article uses readings of Mark Mylod’s Ali G Indahouse, Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, and Chris Morris’s Four Lions to argue against a political trend for laying the blame for the purported failure of British multiculturalism at the hands of individual communities. Through my readings of these comic films, I suggest that popular constructions of “community” based on assumptions about cultural and religious homogeneity are rightly challenged…
Contemporary fictions of multiculturalism: Diversity and the millennial London novel
Contemporary fictions of multiculturalism: diversity and the millennial London novel." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(1), pp. 122–123
Fragmenting and becoming double”: Supplementary twins and abject bodies in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl
This article uses readings of the abject body and writing as supplement in Helen Oyeyemi’s novel, The Icarus Girl (2005) to argue against a critical trend that reads the postcolonial Bildungsroman as promising a positively transformed postcolonial identity. Through our reading of Oyeyemi’s novel, we suggest that locating the debates and tropes conventionally mobilized within postcolonial gothic in the former colonial centre complicates subject fo…
We are here to speak the unspeakable: Voicing abjection in Raj Kamal Jha'sFireproof
This article considers Raj Kamal Jha’s Fireproof (2007), a novel that received an immediate flurry of attention in newspaper reviews but has eluded critical attention since. The article argues that Jha’s novel, set in Gujarat in the wake of the 2002 communal violence, mobilizes tropes of abjection to a number of ends, using them explicitly to convey personal disgust and self-differentiation and analogously to suggest the political processes of na…
Generic frameworks and active readership inThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
This article considers the role of the reader-as-judge in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. It builds upon and extends the idea of the cathartic function of authorship as a response to trauma by alternatively considering the activation and empowerment of the reader that is enabled by the dramatic monologue style of Hamid’s novella. Indications that the reader is called upon to make active decisions can be found in the second-person add…
Generic frameworks and active readership inThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
This article considers the role of the reader-as-judge in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. It builds upon and extends the idea of the cathartic function of authorship as a response to trauma by alternatively considering the activation and empowerment of the reader that is enabled by the dramatic monologue style of Hamid’s novella. Indications that the reader is called upon to make active decisions can be found in the second-person add…
Gender, sexuality and the body in comedy: Performance, reiteration, resistance
Comedy has an important political role in entrenching or overturning existing hierarchies of power, and these are identified through reading strategies that take seriously questions of representation. This was the logic behind the organisation of ‘Mock the Weak: Comedy and the Politics of Representation’, the conference that birthed the papers collected in this special edition. Co-organised by Dr Helen Davies and Dr Sarah Ilott (that’s us!), the …
Fragmenting and becoming double”: Supplementary twins and abject bodies in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl
This article uses readings of the abject body and writing as supplement in Helen Oyeyemi’s novel, The Icarus Girl (2005) to argue against a critical trend that reads the postcolonial Bildungsroman as promising a positively transformed postcolonial identity. Through our reading of Oyeyemi’s novel, we suggest that locating the debates and tropes conventionally mobilized within postcolonial gothic in the former colonial centre complicates subject fo…
We are here to speak the unspeakable: Voicing abjection in Raj Kamal Jha'sFireproof
This article considers Raj Kamal Jha’s Fireproof (2007), a novel that received an immediate flurry of attention in newspaper reviews but has eluded critical attention since. The article argues that Jha’s novel, set in Gujarat in the wake of the 2002 communal violence, mobilizes tropes of abjection to a number of ends, using them explicitly to convey personal disgust and self-differentiation and analogously to suggest the political processes of na…
Generic frameworks and active readership inThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
This article considers the role of the reader-as-judge in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. It builds upon and extends the idea of the cathartic function of authorship as a response to trauma by alternatively considering the activation and empowerment of the reader that is enabled by the dramatic monologue style of Hamid’s novella. Indications that the reader is called upon to make active decisions can be found in the second-person add…
Fragmenting and becoming double”: Supplementary twins and abject bodies in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl
This article uses readings of the abject body and writing as supplement in Helen Oyeyemi’s novel, The Icarus Girl (2005) to argue against a critical trend that reads the postcolonial Bildungsroman as promising a positively transformed postcolonial identity. Through our reading of Oyeyemi’s novel, we suggest that locating the debates and tropes conventionally mobilized within postcolonial gothic in the former colonial centre complicates subject fo…
Contemporary fictions of multiculturalism: Diversity and the millennial London novel
Contemporary fictions of multiculturalism: diversity and the millennial London novel." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(1), pp. 122–123
British Asian diasporic writing: Construction and representation of identities
The two books considered here both engage with South Asian Diasporas in Britain, focussing on 'writing' as a means of exploring the construction and representation of identities.The books share an understanding of Britain as a postcolonial country, shaped by its status as a former colonial power and by waves of migration from former colonies.However, the works diverge significantly in terms of subject matter and methodology.Ahmed's monograph is a…
How is these kids meant to make it out the ghetto now?” Community cohesion and communities of laughter in British multicultural comedy
This article uses readings of Mark Mylod’s Ali G Indahouse, Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, and Chris Morris’s Four Lions to argue against a political trend for laying the blame for the purported failure of British multiculturalism at the hands of individual communities. Through my readings of these comic films, I suggest that popular constructions of “community” based on assumptions about cultural and religious homogeneity are rightly challenged…
Gender, sexuality and the body in comedy: Performance, reiteration, resistance
Comedy has an important political role in entrenching or overturning existing hierarchies of power, and these are identified through reading strategies that take seriously questions of representation. This was the logic behind the organisation of ‘Mock the Weak: Comedy and the Politics of Representation’, the conference that birthed the papers collected in this special edition. Co-organised by Dr Helen Davies and Dr Sarah Ilott (that’s us!), the …
UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity
Sociology (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)