Eleni Coundouriotis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 106575 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Eleni Coundouriotis |
| PRENOMES | Eleni |
| SOBRENOME | Coundouriotis |
| ASSINATURA | COUNDOURIOTIS E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1695-8427 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Ernest Cole
War and Literary Studies
Enduring Police
Until recently, scholars of law and literature could assume a consensus regarding the importance of history to their interdisciplinary engagement.1 Sal Nicolazzo writes to prove this point and fends off the antihistoricism that swept literary studies in the 2010s (238–39). Her study “offers a model for how literary method can produce new histories of race, empire, law, and sovereignty” (37). It directly tackles the skepticism that scholars face f…
Belonging and freedom in Ernest Cole’s The House of Bondage
Ernest Cole’s seminal photo essay, House of Bondage (1966), locates freedom in the documentarian’s creative effort, which aims to bring forth the fullness of African lives under oppression. This essay explores the paradox of Cole’s experience of a loss of creative freedom in exile compared to his experience in South Africa. A wounded belonging inspires his perspective on space and context and his articulation of an African-centered ethical perspe…
Unruly Stories
Dans son roman Travelers , Helon Habila propose le terme de « voyageurs » au lieu de réfugié, demandeur d’asile, migrant ou exilé, afin de se désengager des récits qui accompagnent habituellement ces termes. Constatant que les identités créées par la crise migratoire européenne des années 2010 ont occulté les raisons de la mobilité accrue des Africains durant cette période, Habila met en scène dans son roman des rencontres qui renouvellent sans c…
Unruly Stories
Beyond Borders
States have long denied basic rights to non-citizens within their borders, and international law imposes only limited duties on states with respect to those fleeing persecution. But even the limited rights previously enjoyed by non-citizens are eroding in the face of rising nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism. Beyond Borders explores what obligations we owe to those outside our political community. Drawing on contributions from a broad …
Narrating Human Rights in Africa
Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situates the key theoretical concepts in African perspectives, undercutting the stereotypes of victimhood and voicelessness. Instead of positioning literary texts as illustrative of points already theorized elsewhere, the author foregrounds the literature itself to show the concepts it offers, the ideas and responses stemming from c…
Eleni Coundouriotis
Narration in the Second Person
What does the second person narration of This Mournable Body (2018) tell us about the real? This Mournable Body occupies a post-conflict temporality marked by trauma, as does the previous installat
Torture and textuality
This article offers a reading of Guantánamo Diary that aims at decentring left critiques of the war on terror by offering a postcolonial perspective of Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s important testimony of forced disappearance and torture. The analysis is an exploration of textuality in Guantánamo Diary that takes up three questions in turn: what is the impact of writing an account of torture on our understanding of the literary? What are the stakes of p…
African Freedom
The war novel and human rights
The war novel, a distinct genre of fiction, has typically been read as a type of humanitarian narrative. This article explains how the war novel participates in humanitarian discourse but also has another role to play that addresses human rights more specifically. In the effort to identify accountability, war novels explore complex historical events and offer us important insights on the challenges of historical narration more broadly. Furthermor…
In Flight
The most dramatic stories of refugee experience are the stories of flight. As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) explains, "refugees have to move if they are to save their lives or preserve their freedom". Yet the consequences of flight often shape the political reality of refugee experience as one of stasis. Stuck in camps, sometimes for generations, as we have seen with the experience of Palestinians expelled in 1948, ref…
Memory and the Popular
This essay locates the valences of the popular in Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s fiction to understand how Rwanda as a background for a thriller fits into a longer tradition of African popular genres that represent the aftermath of violent conflict. The question of whether Nairobi Heat and Black Star Nairobi attempt to illuminate the genocide or only evoke it as background shapes the approach to the popular. The essay then identifies ways in which Mukoma’s no…
Things of Poverty and War
Things of Poverty and WarBen Okri and Thing Theory Eleni Coundouriotis (bio) Cameras, transistor radios, gramophones—objects introduced as technologies of modernity appear ordinary in Okri's fiction, which is otherwise replete with highly symbolic actions and spaces. Furthermore, these technologies frequently carry on functions that belong more conventionally to the symbolic realm of the traditional, passing seamlessly into that realm. Thus writi…
Dance of Life
The People's Right to the Novel
This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa. Coundouriotis argues that this genre, aimed more specifically at African readers than the continent’s better-known bildungsroman tradition, nevertheless makes an important intervention in global understandings of human rights.The African war novel lies at the convergence of two sensibilities it encounters in European traditions: the naturalist aesthetic and the discourse of humanita…
An “Internationalism of the Planted Earth”
Research Article| March 01 2011 An “Internationalism of the Planted Earth”:The Literary Origins of Bessie Head's Idea of the Village Eleni Coundouriotis Eleni Coundouriotis University of Connecticut Eleni Coundouriotis is an associate professor of English and the associate director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is currently completing a book on the war novel in Africa entitled The People's Right to the Novel.…
Comparative Human Rights
Eleni Coundouriotis is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is currently completing a book on the war novel in Africa entitled The People's Right to the Novel. Her earlier work includes Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography and the Novel and numerous articles on African fiction, European realism, and human rights. Lauren M. E. Goodlad is associate professor …
The Child Soldier Narrative and the Problem of Arrested Historicization
This essay proposes a comparative reading of child soldier narratives from Africa, most of them novels, and argues that the recent texts (those published since the mid-1990s) exhibit a lesser engagement with history than the war novels from the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods. One reason for this loss of historicity lies in the way the human rights frame is applied to the child soldier identity and conditions his or her story. The ear…
Bonny Ibhawoh - Imperialism and Human Rights
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
The "Contemporaneous Local" in Time
Book Review| February 01 2006 The "Contemporaneous Local" in Time: Problems of History in Shalini Puri's The Caribbean Postcolonial Eleni Coundouriotis Eleni Coundouriotis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 198–205. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-198 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Ic…
The "Contemporaneous Local" in Time
Book Review| February 01 2006 The “Contemporaneous Local” in Time: Problems of History in Shalini Puri's The Caribbean Postcolonial Eleni Coundouriotis Eleni Coundouriotis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 198–205. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-198 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Eleni Coundouriotis; The “Contemporaneous Local” in Time: Problems of History …
At the Heart of Empire
The Child Soldier Narrative and the Problem of Arrested Historicization
This essay proposes a comparative reading of child soldier narratives from Africa, most of them novels, and argues that the recent texts (those published since the mid-1990s) exhibit a lesser engagement with history than the war novels from the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods. One reason for this loss of historicity lies in the way the human rights frame is applied to the child soldier identity and conditions his or her story. The ear…
The People's Right to the Novel
This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa. Coundouriotis argues that this genre, aimed more specifically at African readers than the continent’s better-known bildungsroman tradition, nevertheless makes an important intervention in global understandings of human rights.The African war novel lies at the convergence of two sensibilities it encounters in European traditions: the naturalist aesthetic and the discourse of humanita…
Narration in the Second Person
What does the second person narration of This Mournable Body (2018) tell us about the real? This Mournable Body occupies a post-conflict temporality marked by trauma, as does the previous installat
Torture and textuality
This article offers a reading of Guantánamo Diary that aims at decentring left critiques of the war on terror by offering a postcolonial perspective of Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s important testimony of forced disappearance and torture. The analysis is an exploration of textuality in Guantánamo Diary that takes up three questions in turn: what is the impact of writing an account of torture on our understanding of the literary? What are the stakes of p…
Comparative Human Rights
Eleni Coundouriotis is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is currently completing a book on the war novel in Africa entitled The People's Right to the Novel. Her earlier work includes Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography and the Novel and numerous articles on African fiction, European realism, and human rights. Lauren M. E. Goodlad is associate professor …
Claiming History
Although postcolonial studies has explored the historical influences and connections among literatures throughout the world, it has considered African writing unique. By looking at African novels-written in both French and English-of the colonial and postcolonial periods, Claiming History places African literature in its proper context within this field. Eleni Coundouriotis shows how historical narration not only answers back to Europe's colonial…
At the Heart of Empire
Nation, History, and the Idea of Cultural Origin in Melville Herskovits
Nation, History, and the Idea of Cultural Origin in Melville Herskovits1 Eleni Coundouriotis (bio) Eleni Coundouriotis University of Connecticut Eleni Coundouriotis Eleni Coundouriotis is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut—Storrs. Her book Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography, and the Novel was published by Columbia University Press in 1999. She is also the author of "Authority and Invention in the Fiction of Be…
The "Contemporaneous Local" in Time
Book Review| February 01 2006 The "Contemporaneous Local" in Time: Problems of History in Shalini Puri's The Caribbean Postcolonial Eleni Coundouriotis Eleni Coundouriotis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 198–205. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-198 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Ic…
The "Contemporaneous Local" in Time
Book Review| February 01 2006 The “Contemporaneous Local” in Time: Problems of History in Shalini Puri's The Caribbean Postcolonial Eleni Coundouriotis Eleni Coundouriotis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 198–205. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-198 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Eleni Coundouriotis; The “Contemporaneous Local” in Time: Problems of History …
Bonny Ibhawoh - Imperialism and Human Rights
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Comparative Human Rights
Eleni Coundouriotis is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is currently completing a book on the war novel in Africa entitled The People's Right to the Novel. Her earlier work includes Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography and the Novel and numerous articles on African fiction, European realism, and human rights. Lauren M. E. Goodlad is associate professor …
The Child Soldier Narrative and the Problem of Arrested Historicization
This essay proposes a comparative reading of child soldier narratives from Africa, most of them novels, and argues that the recent texts (those published since the mid-1990s) exhibit a lesser engagement with history than the war novels from the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods. One reason for this loss of historicity lies in the way the human rights frame is applied to the child soldier identity and conditions his or her story. The ear…
An “Internationalism of the Planted Earth”
Research Article| March 01 2011 An “Internationalism of the Planted Earth”:The Literary Origins of Bessie Head's Idea of the Village Eleni Coundouriotis Eleni Coundouriotis University of Connecticut Eleni Coundouriotis is an associate professor of English and the associate director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. She is currently completing a book on the war novel in Africa entitled The People's Right to the Novel.…
Dance of Life
The People's Right to the Novel
This study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa. Coundouriotis argues that this genre, aimed more specifically at African readers than the continent’s better-known bildungsroman tradition, nevertheless makes an important intervention in global understandings of human rights.The African war novel lies at the convergence of two sensibilities it encounters in European traditions: the naturalist aesthetic and the discourse of humanita…
Things of Poverty and War
Things of Poverty and WarBen Okri and Thing Theory Eleni Coundouriotis (bio) Cameras, transistor radios, gramophones—objects introduced as technologies of modernity appear ordinary in Okri's fiction, which is otherwise replete with highly symbolic actions and spaces. Furthermore, these technologies frequently carry on functions that belong more conventionally to the symbolic realm of the traditional, passing seamlessly into that realm. Thus writi…
Memory and the Popular
This essay locates the valences of the popular in Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s fiction to understand how Rwanda as a background for a thriller fits into a longer tradition of African popular genres that represent the aftermath of violent conflict. The question of whether Nairobi Heat and Black Star Nairobi attempt to illuminate the genocide or only evoke it as background shapes the approach to the popular. The essay then identifies ways in which Mukoma’s no…
In Flight
The most dramatic stories of refugee experience are the stories of flight. As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) explains, "refugees have to move if they are to save their lives or preserve their freedom". Yet the consequences of flight often shape the political reality of refugee experience as one of stasis. Stuck in camps, sometimes for generations, as we have seen with the experience of Palestinians expelled in 1948, ref…
African Freedom
The war novel and human rights
The war novel, a distinct genre of fiction, has typically been read as a type of humanitarian narrative. This article explains how the war novel participates in humanitarian discourse but also has another role to play that addresses human rights more specifically. In the effort to identify accountability, war novels explore complex historical events and offer us important insights on the challenges of historical narration more broadly. Furthermor…
Narrating Human Rights in Africa
Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situates the key theoretical concepts in African perspectives, undercutting the stereotypes of victimhood and voicelessness. Instead of positioning literary texts as illustrative of points already theorized elsewhere, the author foregrounds the literature itself to show the concepts it offers, the ideas and responses stemming from c…
Eleni Coundouriotis
Narration in the Second Person
What does the second person narration of This Mournable Body (2018) tell us about the real? This Mournable Body occupies a post-conflict temporality marked by trauma, as does the previous installat
Torture and textuality
This article offers a reading of Guantánamo Diary that aims at decentring left critiques of the war on terror by offering a postcolonial perspective of Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s important testimony of forced disappearance and torture. The analysis is an exploration of textuality in Guantánamo Diary that takes up three questions in turn: what is the impact of writing an account of torture on our understanding of the literary? What are the stakes of p…
Beyond Borders
States have long denied basic rights to non-citizens within their borders, and international law imposes only limited duties on states with respect to those fleeing persecution. But even the limited rights previously enjoyed by non-citizens are eroding in the face of rising nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism. Beyond Borders explores what obligations we owe to those outside our political community. Drawing on contributions from a broad …
Unruly Stories
Dans son roman Travelers , Helon Habila propose le terme de « voyageurs » au lieu de réfugié, demandeur d’asile, migrant ou exilé, afin de se désengager des récits qui accompagnent habituellement ces termes. Constatant que les identités créées par la crise migratoire européenne des années 2010 ont occulté les raisons de la mobilité accrue des Africains durant cette période, Habila met en scène dans son roman des rencontres qui renouvellent sans c…
Unruly Stories
War and Literary Studies
Enduring Police
Until recently, scholars of law and literature could assume a consensus regarding the importance of history to their interdisciplinary engagement.1 Sal Nicolazzo writes to prove this point and fends off the antihistoricism that swept literary studies in the 2010s (238–39). Her study “offers a model for how literary method can produce new histories of race, empire, law, and sovereignty” (37). It directly tackles the skepticism that scholars face f…
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