Elizabeth S Anker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1220296 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elizabeth S Anker |
| PRENOMES | Elizabeth S |
| SOBRENOME | Anker |
| ASSINATURA | ANKER E S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Annie Ernaux, Dobbs , and the Right to Tell Abortion Stories
“Commonly Human”
This chapter investigates how The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid&s;s simultaneously activates and subverts many of the assumptions about the "human" that guide liberal human rights discourses and norms. Human rights standards presume an agentive subject whose reasoned self-determination secures the privileges and protections of rights – just as deliberative, rational choice is understood to vest political process with legitimacy. A…
Critique and Postcritique
Now that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-evident, critics are vigorously debating the functions and futures of critique. The contributors to Critique and Postcritique join this conversation, evaluating critique's structural, methodological, and political potentials and limitations. Following the interventions made by Bruno Latour, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sharon Marcus and Stephen Best, and others, …
New Directions in Law and Literature
After the heyday of the law and literature movement in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether it would retain vitality and influence. Yet in recent years, scholarship in law and literature continues to flourish, broadening into a number of new directions. This collection of essays by twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools showcases the vibrancy of recent work in the field, at the same time as it takes…
Replicant Being
In 1980, the Supreme Court determined that a genetically modified organism was patentable. Ten years later, the California Supreme Court ruled that a person did not have ownership rights in his cells. Both cases were crucial for the development of biotechnology as a multibillion dollar business. Both also contributed to changing conceptions of the human and of life itself. This chapter chronicles legal and political efforts to resolve the hazy de…
Critique and Postcritique
The ‘scent of ink’
Rebuilding the Nation
The South African Constitution is widely regarded as one of the world’s most progressive, and this essays looks to a series of novels concerned with the nation’s transition beyond apartheid in order to examine the challenges of transformative constitutionalism. Through readings of Nadine Gordimer’s None to Accompany Me , Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying , and Ivan Vladislavic’s The Folly , 1 it explores the prevalence of the language and imagery of arch…
Books
Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation. By Arvind-Pal Mandair. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. 536. ISBN 0231147244 $5
Worlds Within
Book Review| December 01 2011 Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing Cooppan, VilashiniWorlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 377 pp. Cloth $65. Elizabeth S. Anker Elizabeth S. Anker Cornell University Elizabeth S. Anker is assistant professor of English at Cornell University. She is completing a book, Fictions of …
The Contaminations of Global Capital
The Contaminations of Global Capital Elizabeth S. Anker (bio) Review of: Pheng Cheah, Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2006). 336 pages. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 0674023943 Globalization, cosmopolitanism, human rights. It's hard to imagine three more hotly contested terms that have of late come to preoccupy theoretical conversations. Indeed, we have become so engrossed with these concepts that it's a…
Rebuilding the Nation
The South African Constitution is widely regarded as one of the world’s most progressive, and this essays looks to a series of novels concerned with the nation’s transition beyond apartheid in order to examine the challenges of transformative constitutionalism. Through readings of Nadine Gordimer’s None to Accompany Me , Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying , and Ivan Vladislavic’s The Folly , 1 it explores the prevalence of the language and imagery of arch…
The Contaminations of Global Capital
The Contaminations of Global Capital Elizabeth S. Anker (bio) Review of: Pheng Cheah, Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2006). 336 pages. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 0674023943 Globalization, cosmopolitanism, human rights. It's hard to imagine three more hotly contested terms that have of late come to preoccupy theoretical conversations. Indeed, we have become so engrossed with these concepts that it's a…
Books
Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation. By Arvind-Pal Mandair. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. 536. ISBN 0231147244 $5
Worlds Within
Book Review| December 01 2011 Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing Cooppan, VilashiniWorlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 377 pp. Cloth $65. Elizabeth S. Anker Elizabeth S. Anker Cornell University Elizabeth S. Anker is assistant professor of English at Cornell University. She is completing a book, Fictions of …
The ‘scent of ink’
Rebuilding the Nation
The South African Constitution is widely regarded as one of the world’s most progressive, and this essays looks to a series of novels concerned with the nation’s transition beyond apartheid in order to examine the challenges of transformative constitutionalism. Through readings of Nadine Gordimer’s None to Accompany Me , Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying , and Ivan Vladislavic’s The Folly , 1 it explores the prevalence of the language and imagery of arch…
Critique and Postcritique
Now that literary critique's intellectual and political pay-off is no longer quite so self-evident, critics are vigorously debating the functions and futures of critique. The contributors to Critique and Postcritique join this conversation, evaluating critique's structural, methodological, and political potentials and limitations. Following the interventions made by Bruno Latour, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sharon Marcus and Stephen Best, and others, …
New Directions in Law and Literature
After the heyday of the law and literature movement in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether it would retain vitality and influence. Yet in recent years, scholarship in law and literature continues to flourish, broadening into a number of new directions. This collection of essays by twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools showcases the vibrancy of recent work in the field, at the same time as it takes…
Replicant Being
In 1980, the Supreme Court determined that a genetically modified organism was patentable. Ten years later, the California Supreme Court ruled that a person did not have ownership rights in his cells. Both cases were crucial for the development of biotechnology as a multibillion dollar business. Both also contributed to changing conceptions of the human and of life itself. This chapter chronicles legal and political efforts to resolve the hazy de…
Critique and Postcritique
“Commonly Human”
This chapter investigates how The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid&s;s simultaneously activates and subverts many of the assumptions about the "human" that guide liberal human rights discourses and norms. Human rights standards presume an agentive subject whose reasoned self-determination secures the privileges and protections of rights – just as deliberative, rational choice is understood to vest political process with legitimacy. A…
Annie Ernaux, Dobbs , and the Right to Tell Abortion Stories
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