Sarah Arens
Biographic Data
| ID | 9733146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Arens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Arens |
| SIGNATURE | ARENS S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ailing Empires
This special issue explores the entanglements of medicine, science, and imperialism across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, foregrounding the paradox of ‘ailing empires’ in which health both sustained and destabilised colonial rule. Drawing on case studies spanning South Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, the contributions examine how medical knowledge circulated across imperial and transnational network…
Killer Stories
Focusing on Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce (2016) and Alain Mabanckou's African Psycho (2003), this article traces a grotesque aesthetics that draws on other globally circulated texts, such as North American crime fiction, the literary trope of the serial killer and the 'evil mother', as well as on the recognition value of the city of Paris to appeal to a global, and in particular Western readership. While this new aesthetics is clearly informed b…
Introduction
The introduction provides an overview of the intellectual context for the thematic issue and outlines the complexities around the genesis of Achille Mbembe's 'Provisional Notes on the Postcolony' (1992). It examines how Mbembe's work ushered in a new era of discursive practices that sought to understand the role of the imagination in the operation of power in contemporary Africa and sketches how the articles of the thematic issue engage with the …
Introduction
The introduction provides an overview of the intellectual context for the thematic issue and outlines the complexities around the genesis of Achille Mbembe's 'Provisional Notes on the Postcolony' (1992). It examines how Mbembe's work ushered in a new era of discursive practices that sought to understand the role of the imagination in the operation of power in contemporary Africa and sketches how the articles of the thematic issue engage with the …
Killer Stories
Focusing on Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce (2016) and Alain Mabanckou's African Psycho (2003), this article traces a grotesque aesthetics that draws on other globally circulated texts, such as North American crime fiction, the literary trope of the serial killer and the 'evil mother', as well as on the recognition value of the city of Paris to appeal to a global, and in particular Western readership. While this new aesthetics is clearly informed b…
Introduction
The introduction provides an overview of the intellectual context for the thematic issue and outlines the complexities around the genesis of Achille Mbembe's 'Provisional Notes on the Postcolony' (1992). It examines how Mbembe's work ushered in a new era of discursive practices that sought to understand the role of the imagination in the operation of power in contemporary Africa and sketches how the articles of the thematic issue engage with the …
Ailing Empires
This special issue explores the entanglements of medicine, science, and imperialism across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, foregrounding the paradox of ‘ailing empires’ in which health both sustained and destabilised colonial rule. Drawing on case studies spanning South Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, the contributions examine how medical knowledge circulated across imperial and transnational network…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works)