Erin Trapp
Biographic Data
| ID | 768587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Trapp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin |
| FAMILY NAME | Trapp |
| SIGNATURE | TRAPP E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8185-198X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reading as a Way of Dreaming, Dreaming as a Way of Reading
Unconsciousness rising
Human Rights Poetry and the Poetics of Nonhuman Being
This article provides a reading of the nonhuman world registered in Dunya Mikhail’s poem Diary of a Wave outside the Sea. While human rights poetry traditionally assembles a poetics of witnessing or mourning and focuses on the construction of the human person, this reading of Mikhail’s poetry demonstrates human rights discourse’s investment in establishing an idea of the nonhuman world as well. This discussion of the nonhuman dimension of lyric i…
Human Rights Poetry
Human Rights Poetry:On Ferida Duraković’s Heart of Darkness Erin Trapp (bio) And you,if you don’t know how to rejoice,rejoice in the skill of one who does!My precious one, nothing is good out there:neither place, nor time, nor action.But must one respect that old dramaticunity? A walk is for something else. —Ferida Duraković, from “Morning Glory, Sarajevo”1 We might approach the question of what human rights poetry is by asking another question: …
Arendt, Preference, and the Revolutionary Spectator
The Enemy Combatant as Poet
Reviews of poetry written by Guantanamo detainees foreclose the aesthetic potential of the poems, and, as a result, contribute to contemporary human rights discourse’s depoliticization of the subject of human rights. Considering the poems within the field of “post-9/11 literature,” the essay proposes that the poems place the question of how to read the writing of the enemy at the center of this literature’s concern with the traumatic and affectiv…
Unfulfillable Wishing
Unfulfillable Wishing:Depression in the Gray Zone Erin Trapp (bio) In her 1966 preface to The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt sums up the changes made to the text since its initial publication in 1950, just three years before Stalin's death.1 These revisions reflect the changing climate in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union, and the widespread phenomenon of a "thaw" in state control in Communist Eastern Europe in the following decade.2 In …
Differential Treatment of Children by Sex
In nearly all populations, in the absence of special circumstances, the numbers of males and females are approximately equal; female advantage in life expectancy balances the slightly higher birth rate of boys. Cultural practices such as infanticide, differential feeding, and provision of health care by sex have, in some populations in the past, led to an unequal ratio of boys to girls and higher mortality and morbidity for girls compared to boys…
The Push and Pull of Hip-Hop
This article explores how hip-hop music-with its grim portrayals of urban reality and youth manifestos-can be both the mirror and engine of a social movement, based on two divergent theories, new social movement theory and political opportunity theory, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Contrasting the work of two prominent artists, the author examines the portrayal of women in rap and finds that these artists attempt to "represent" and inf…
The Push and Pull of Hip-Hop
This article explores how hip-hop music-with its grim portrayals of urban reality and youth manifestos-can be both the mirror and engine of a social movement, based on two divergent theories, new social movement theory and political opportunity theory, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Contrasting the work of two prominent artists, the author examines the portrayal of women in rap and finds that these artists attempt to "represent" and inf…
Unconsciousness rising
Human Rights Poetry and the Poetics of Nonhuman Being
This article provides a reading of the nonhuman world registered in Dunya Mikhail’s poem Diary of a Wave outside the Sea. While human rights poetry traditionally assembles a poetics of witnessing or mourning and focuses on the construction of the human person, this reading of Mikhail’s poetry demonstrates human rights discourse’s investment in establishing an idea of the nonhuman world as well. This discussion of the nonhuman dimension of lyric i…
The Push and Pull of Hip-Hop
This article explores how hip-hop music-with its grim portrayals of urban reality and youth manifestos-can be both the mirror and engine of a social movement, based on two divergent theories, new social movement theory and political opportunity theory, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Contrasting the work of two prominent artists, the author examines the portrayal of women in rap and finds that these artists attempt to "represent" and inf…
Differential Treatment of Children by Sex
In nearly all populations, in the absence of special circumstances, the numbers of males and females are approximately equal; female advantage in life expectancy balances the slightly higher birth rate of boys. Cultural practices such as infanticide, differential feeding, and provision of health care by sex have, in some populations in the past, led to an unequal ratio of boys to girls and higher mortality and morbidity for girls compared to boys…
Unfulfillable Wishing
Unfulfillable Wishing:Depression in the Gray Zone Erin Trapp (bio) In her 1966 preface to The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt sums up the changes made to the text since its initial publication in 1950, just three years before Stalin's death.1 These revisions reflect the changing climate in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union, and the widespread phenomenon of a "thaw" in state control in Communist Eastern Europe in the following decade.2 In …
The Enemy Combatant as Poet
Reviews of poetry written by Guantanamo detainees foreclose the aesthetic potential of the poems, and, as a result, contribute to contemporary human rights discourse’s depoliticization of the subject of human rights. Considering the poems within the field of “post-9/11 literature,” the essay proposes that the poems place the question of how to read the writing of the enemy at the center of this literature’s concern with the traumatic and affectiv…
Human Rights Poetry
Human Rights Poetry:On Ferida Duraković’s Heart of Darkness Erin Trapp (bio) And you,if you don’t know how to rejoice,rejoice in the skill of one who does!My precious one, nothing is good out there:neither place, nor time, nor action.But must one respect that old dramaticunity? A walk is for something else. —Ferida Duraković, from “Morning Glory, Sarajevo”1 We might approach the question of what human rights poetry is by asking another question: …
Arendt, Preference, and the Revolutionary Spectator
Human Rights Poetry and the Poetics of Nonhuman Being
This article provides a reading of the nonhuman world registered in Dunya Mikhail’s poem Diary of a Wave outside the Sea. While human rights poetry traditionally assembles a poetics of witnessing or mourning and focuses on the construction of the human person, this reading of Mikhail’s poetry demonstrates human rights discourse’s investment in establishing an idea of the nonhuman world as well. This discussion of the nonhuman dimension of lyric i…
Unconsciousness rising
Reading as a Way of Dreaming, Dreaming as a Way of Reading
Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · History (3 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Literature (3 works)