Ryan Topper
Biographic Data
| ID | 939199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan Topper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Topper |
| SIGNATURE | TOPPER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Oregon University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Introduction: Poetics from the Global South
Postcolonial literary studies has focused on narrative prose. We argue that the field would benefit from expanding this focus to poetics from the Global South. By utilizing the rubric of the Global South, we include decolonial thought from hispanophone and lusophone domains alongside postcolonial thought, often identified with the anglophone academy. Our approach to poetics foregrounds poetry as a literary form pertinent to the project of theoriz…
Postsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction
Trauma and the African Animist Imaginary in Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen, and Me
This essay intervenes in debates surrounding trauma theory and postcolonial studies, tracing how forms of African animism can lead to a decolonized discourse of trauma. Taking the postcolonial critique of trauma theory’s Eurocentrism as a point of departure, the essay focuses on two contemporary novels of the African diaspora: Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen, and Me. Narrating local forms of surviva…
Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
The first chapter of Alison Ravenscroft’s The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race begins with a description of a photograph, property of the South Australian Museum, series AA346. This photograph is one of thousands taken during the Board for Anthropological Research’s Harvard and Adelaide Universities’ 1938 expedition. In it, two Murri girls stare at us, one with a shaved head, the other wearing a card marked ‘…
Literature in the Ashes of History: Returning to Trauma
Almost two decades ago, Cathy Caruth's Unclaimed Experience helped push the topic of trauma into the spotlight within the humanities.1 Since then, trauma has become a major theme in critical and cu
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Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race
The first chapter of Alison Ravenscroft’s The Postcolonial Eye: White Australian Desire and the Visual Field of Race begins with a description of a photograph, property of the South Australian Museum, series AA346. This photograph is one of thousands taken during the Board for Anthropological Research’s Harvard and Adelaide Universities’ 1938 expedition. In it, two Murri girls stare at us, one with a shaved head, the other wearing a card marked ‘…
Literature in the Ashes of History: Returning to Trauma
Almost two decades ago, Cathy Caruth's Unclaimed Experience helped push the topic of trauma into the spotlight within the humanities.1 Since then, trauma has become a major theme in critical and cu
Trauma and the African Animist Imaginary in Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen, and Me
This essay intervenes in debates surrounding trauma theory and postcolonial studies, tracing how forms of African animism can lead to a decolonized discourse of trauma. Taking the postcolonial critique of trauma theory’s Eurocentrism as a point of departure, the essay focuses on two contemporary novels of the African diaspora: Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen, and Me. Narrating local forms of surviva…
Postsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction
Introduction: Poetics from the Global South
Postcolonial literary studies has focused on narrative prose. We argue that the field would benefit from expanding this focus to poetics from the Global South. By utilizing the rubric of the Global South, we include decolonial thought from hispanophone and lusophone domains alongside postcolonial thought, often identified with the anglophone academy. Our approach to poetics foregrounds poetry as a literary form pertinent to the project of theoriz…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works) · Poetics (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works)