Karima Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 6814097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karima Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karima |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université d'Angers |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8858-3500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Angela Carter’s Metaleptic Turn
Angela Carter’s experiences in Japan molded her post-Japan writing: she became more preoccupied with the nature of reality and the status of the subject, which operates for her like Roland Barthes’s empty sign, whose sole reality is its appearance. Carter sought a new model of writing too, which she found partly in bunraku. This paper analyzes the role of bunraku in triggering Carter’s overlapping narrative and ontological frames. That metaleptic…
Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic
Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic marks a timely shift in Carter’s scholarship by brilliantly addressing humor and play as possible feminist strategies. Collectively, the chapters theorize how humor and play can write new possibilities into language, thus opening spaces to reimagine new ways of being. The contributors show that “knowing laughter” and “serious play” embody a double commitment to aesthetic pleasure and social materialist fe…
Ghosted subjectivities in Margo Lanagan’s ‘The Point of Roses’
This article examines the tropes of ghosting in Margo Lanagan’s ‘The Point of Roses’ in relation to Judith Butler’s theory of the performative construction of identity through reiteration and foreclosure. The story illustrates the ghosting effect of normative subjectivities and the spectral, disruptive return of the contingent, socially erased subjectivities. Ghosting is considered in the light of the dual nature of the spectral as ‘a dispossessi…
A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)’
Angela Carter’s ‘A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)’ can be read as an allegory of the production/reception processes as well as the author/reader relationship. Through the study of its language, structure and enunciative economy, important premises concerning authorship are undermined. First, the myth of the author as a prophet gave way to the image of the author as a craftsman; second, the illusion of the author’s will-to-say gave way to the rea…
Ghosted subjectivities in Margo Lanagan’s ‘The Point of Roses’
This article examines the tropes of ghosting in Margo Lanagan’s ‘The Point of Roses’ in relation to Judith Butler’s theory of the performative construction of identity through reiteration and foreclosure. The story illustrates the ghosting effect of normative subjectivities and the spectral, disruptive return of the contingent, socially erased subjectivities. Ghosting is considered in the light of the dual nature of the spectral as ‘a dispossessi…
A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)’
Angela Carter’s ‘A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)’ can be read as an allegory of the production/reception processes as well as the author/reader relationship. Through the study of its language, structure and enunciative economy, important premises concerning authorship are undermined. First, the myth of the author as a prophet gave way to the image of the author as a craftsman; second, the illusion of the author’s will-to-say gave way to the rea…
Ghosted subjectivities in Margo Lanagan’s ‘The Point of Roses’
This article examines the tropes of ghosting in Margo Lanagan’s ‘The Point of Roses’ in relation to Judith Butler’s theory of the performative construction of identity through reiteration and foreclosure. The story illustrates the ghosting effect of normative subjectivities and the spectral, disruptive return of the contingent, socially erased subjectivities. Ghosting is considered in the light of the dual nature of the spectral as ‘a dispossessi…
Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic
Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic marks a timely shift in Carter’s scholarship by brilliantly addressing humor and play as possible feminist strategies. Collectively, the chapters theorize how humor and play can write new possibilities into language, thus opening spaces to reimagine new ways of being. The contributors show that “knowing laughter” and “serious play” embody a double commitment to aesthetic pleasure and social materialist fe…
Angela Carter’s Metaleptic Turn
Angela Carter’s experiences in Japan molded her post-Japan writing: she became more preoccupied with the nature of reality and the status of the subject, which operates for her like Roland Barthes’s empty sign, whose sole reality is its appearance. Carter sought a new model of writing too, which she found partly in bunraku. This paper analyzes the role of bunraku in triggering Carter’s overlapping narrative and ontological frames. That metaleptic…
Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)