Sophie Oliver
Biographic Data
| ID | 6564631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Oliver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliver |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7194-3215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From the Bahamas to a bolero on Bank St
In a 1935 photograph by Prentiss Taylor, the novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston wears a black silk bolero and performs part of a Bahamian ‘Fire Dance’, collected as part of her anthropological fieldwork in the American South and Nassau. This visual essay proposes that Hurston’s fashionable dress (boleros are everywhere in 1935) and the cross-racial, queer modernist milieu of Taylor’s West Village apartment help visualize Hurston’s philoso…
Fashion in Jean Rhys/Jean Rhys in Fashion
This article proposes a reciprocal relationship between Jean Rhys's interwar fiction and the mass media that popularised her work in the 1960s and 1970s. Surveying the signs that Rhys and her writing had become fashionable – for example, press reviews and profiles, including in colour supplements and fashion magazines (even her own shoot), along with television adaptations of the work she wrote or set in the 1930s – the piece discusses how her po…
Visual Culture
This chapter looks at books published in the field of visual culture in late 2014 and 2015. The chapter is divided into two sections: 1. Reconfiguring Perception and 2. Surfeit and Strategy
Visual Culture
This chapter looks at books published in the field of visual culture in 2013 and 2014. The six distinctive titles are connected broadly by the theme of movement or mobility, significant in terms of: critical shifts of definition; physical motion and its obverse, stasis; the relation of moving to seeing; fantasies of mobility; the global movement of images, people and objects, restricted or otherwise; the mobilization of images in response to glob…
Djuna Barnes in a Material World
Fashion is becoming a highly productive context in which to study modernist literature, and its relevance to the work of Djuna Barnes is an exciting ground for further exploration. The untimely qualities that critics have come to regard as so central to her art have troubled her relationship to modernity, but this article suggests that Barnes was invested in fashion as a paradigm for transatlantic modernity and a material example of its effects. …
Dehumanization
Trauma, bodies, and performance art
The question of how to be an ethical witness to the suffering of distant others is one that has long been a preoccupation of trauma studies scholars. This paper addresses the problem of (un)ethical spectatorship of the traumatized body by engaging with the theory and practice of contemporary performance art. Rejecting the fantasy of the ideal moral witness, the author turns to models of embodied spectatorship suggested by performance-body art to …
Trauma, bodies, and performance art
The question of how to be an ethical witness to the suffering of distant others is one that has long been a preoccupation of trauma studies scholars. This paper addresses the problem of (un)ethical spectatorship of the traumatized body by engaging with the theory and practice of contemporary performance art. Rejecting the fantasy of the ideal moral witness, the author turns to models of embodied spectatorship suggested by performance-body art to …
Visual Culture
This chapter looks at books published in the field of visual culture in late 2014 and 2015. The chapter is divided into two sections: 1. Reconfiguring Perception and 2. Surfeit and Strategy
Djuna Barnes in a Material World
Fashion is becoming a highly productive context in which to study modernist literature, and its relevance to the work of Djuna Barnes is an exciting ground for further exploration. The untimely qualities that critics have come to regard as so central to her art have troubled her relationship to modernity, but this article suggests that Barnes was invested in fashion as a paradigm for transatlantic modernity and a material example of its effects. …
Trauma, bodies, and performance art
The question of how to be an ethical witness to the suffering of distant others is one that has long been a preoccupation of trauma studies scholars. This paper addresses the problem of (un)ethical spectatorship of the traumatized body by engaging with the theory and practice of contemporary performance art. Rejecting the fantasy of the ideal moral witness, the author turns to models of embodied spectatorship suggested by performance-body art to …
Dehumanization
Djuna Barnes in a Material World
Fashion is becoming a highly productive context in which to study modernist literature, and its relevance to the work of Djuna Barnes is an exciting ground for further exploration. The untimely qualities that critics have come to regard as so central to her art have troubled her relationship to modernity, but this article suggests that Barnes was invested in fashion as a paradigm for transatlantic modernity and a material example of its effects. …
Visual Culture
This chapter looks at books published in the field of visual culture in 2013 and 2014. The six distinctive titles are connected broadly by the theme of movement or mobility, significant in terms of: critical shifts of definition; physical motion and its obverse, stasis; the relation of moving to seeing; fantasies of mobility; the global movement of images, people and objects, restricted or otherwise; the mobilization of images in response to glob…
Fashion in Jean Rhys/Jean Rhys in Fashion
This article proposes a reciprocal relationship between Jean Rhys's interwar fiction and the mass media that popularised her work in the 1960s and 1970s. Surveying the signs that Rhys and her writing had become fashionable – for example, press reviews and profiles, including in colour supplements and fashion magazines (even her own shoot), along with television adaptations of the work she wrote or set in the 1930s – the piece discusses how her po…
Visual Culture
This chapter looks at books published in the field of visual culture in late 2014 and 2015. The chapter is divided into two sections: 1. Reconfiguring Perception and 2. Surfeit and Strategy
From the Bahamas to a bolero on Bank St
In a 1935 photograph by Prentiss Taylor, the novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston wears a black silk bolero and performs part of a Bahamian ‘Fire Dance’, collected as part of her anthropological fieldwork in the American South and Nassau. This visual essay proposes that Hurston’s fashionable dress (boleros are everywhere in 1935) and the cross-racial, queer modernist milieu of Taylor’s West Village apartment help visualize Hurston’s philoso…
Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Modernism (music (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Embodied cognition (2 works)