Ruth A H Lahti
Biographic Data
| ID | 6850546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth A H Lahti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth A H |
| FAMILY NAME | Lahti |
| SIGNATURE | LAHTI R A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Essential Gesture as Transnational Gesture in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup
This article engages Nadine Gordimer's 2001 novel The Pickup and her earlier essays on the writer's “essential gesture” in order to demonstrate that The Pickup marks a continuation of Gordimer's apartheid-era investment in writing fiction as a creative yet socially committed act. Drawing upon recent scholarship on the transnational, it argues that in The Pickup the heart of the essential gesture takes form as the transnational gesture, as the nov…
Gesturing beyond the Frame
The convergent boundary between the fields of trauma theory and US war fiction has resulted in a narrow focus on the subjectivity of the American soldier in war fiction, which partly conditions American war fiction's privileging of the soldier-author. However, this focus on American soldiers does not adequately account for the essentially interactive nature of war trauma, and it elides the experiences of nurses and noncombatants on all sides of t…
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Gesturing beyond the Frame
The convergent boundary between the fields of trauma theory and US war fiction has resulted in a narrow focus on the subjectivity of the American soldier in war fiction, which partly conditions American war fiction's privileging of the soldier-author. However, this focus on American soldiers does not adequately account for the essentially interactive nature of war trauma, and it elides the experiences of nurses and noncombatants on all sides of t…
The Essential Gesture as Transnational Gesture in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup
This article engages Nadine Gordimer's 2001 novel The Pickup and her earlier essays on the writer's “essential gesture” in order to demonstrate that The Pickup marks a continuation of Gordimer's apartheid-era investment in writing fiction as a creative yet socially committed act. Drawing upon recent scholarship on the transnational, it argues that in The Pickup the heart of the essential gesture takes form as the transnational gesture, as the nov…
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