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Papers by Camille Isaacs

Research paper thumbnail of “There Were No Elders. Only Old Men”: Aging and Misogyny in Austin Clarke’s Later Fiction

Research paper thumbnail of Putting Black Lives Matter into Canadian Literary Studies

Studies in Canadian Literature-etudes En Litterature Canadienne, Dec 19, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Written on the Body: Personal Monumentalization in the Work of David Chariandy and Tessa McWatt

Studies in Canadian Literature-etudes En Litterature Canadienne, Dec 19, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Mediating women’s globalized existence through social media in the work of Adichie and Bulawayo

Safundi, Apr 2, 2016

This article considers the transmission of affect through social media in the recent work of Chim... more This article considers the transmission of affect through social media in the recent work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah) and NoViolet Bulawayo (We Need New Names). The young protagonists, Ifemelu and Darling, both use the Internet and various social media to question the disembodied and deterritorialized spaces that digital networks potentially engender. While they at first fail to see their connections to spaces as mediated, in part because of their youthful ages, they ultimately begin to recognize both the constructed and mediated nature of the relationships at home and in the diaspora. What the young women's examples demonstrate is that the Internet or blogosphere constitute peculiar spaces of access to both homelands left behind and the host cultures. They ultimately reach the conclusion that, despite the visual, aural, and synchronous contact that computermediated communication allows, the lack of a physically present body limits the transmission of affect. The fiction of NoViolet Bulawayo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie attends to questions of space and belonging in relation to diasporic experience in the global era. Each writer published a novel in 2013 that features new-media-driven narratives; each addresses issues of affect and access, which the influence of expanding virtual networks on social relations is making increasingly visible. In Bulawayo's We Need New Names, a teenager named Darling finds herself transported from the community of "Paradise, " Bulawayo, to "Destroyedmichygen, " which is to say Detroit, Michigan, swapping one constructed idea of home for another. In Adichie's Americanah, a young woman, Ifemelu, emigrates on a scholarship to the US, but decides ultimately that she does not want to live with a computer-mediated notion of her homeland, Nigeria. Darling and Ifemelu both use the Internet and various forms of social media to question the disembodied and deterritorialized spaces that digital networks potentially engender, and the impact these media have on the transmission of affect. While they fail at first to see their connections to spaces as mediated, in part because of their ages, they begin ultimately to recognize both the constructed and mediated nature of their relationships at home and in the diaspora.

Research paper thumbnail of Acts of Trespass and Collapsing Borders: Alternate Landscapes in Contemporary Caribbean-Canadian Literature

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of “Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated”: Postcolonial Theory and “The Politics of Postcoloniality”

Ariel-a Review of International English Literature, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Fear of a Diluted Blackness

Topia: The Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Nov 1, 2016

health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehe... more health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehensive analysis on the events that have shaped Canada, CHR publishes articles that examine Canadian history from both a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective.

Research paper thumbnail of Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imaging Political Culture Beyond the Color Line

Ariel-a Review of International English Literature, Apr 1, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Mediating women's globalized existence through social media in the work of Adichie and Bulawayo

Routledge eBooks, Oct 11, 2018

This article considers the transmission of affect through social media in the recent work of Chim... more This article considers the transmission of affect through social media in the recent work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah) and NoViolet Bulawayo (We Need New Names). The young protagonists, Ifemelu and Darling, both use the Internet and various social media to question the disembodied and deterritorialized spaces that digital networks potentially engender. While they at first fail to see their connections to spaces as mediated, in part because of their youthful ages, they ultimately begin to recognize both the constructed and mediated nature of the relationships at home and in the diaspora. What the young women's examples demonstrate is that the Internet or blogosphere constitute peculiar spaces of access to both homelands left behind and the host cultures. They ultimately reach the conclusion that, despite the visual, aural, and synchronous contact that computermediated communication allows, the lack of a physically present body limits the transmission of affect. The fiction of NoViolet Bulawayo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie attends to questions of space and belonging in relation to diasporic experience in the global era. Each writer published a novel in 2013 that features new-media-driven narratives; each addresses issues of affect and access, which the influence of expanding virtual networks on social relations is making increasingly visible. In Bulawayo's We Need New Names, a teenager named Darling finds herself transported from the community of "Paradise, " Bulawayo, to "Destroyedmichygen, " which is to say Detroit, Michigan, swapping one constructed idea of home for another. In Adichie's Americanah, a young woman, Ifemelu, emigrates on a scholarship to the US, but decides ultimately that she does not want to live with a computer-mediated notion of her homeland, Nigeria. Darling and Ifemelu both use the Internet and various forms of social media to question the disembodied and deterritorialized spaces that digital networks potentially engender, and the impact these media have on the transmission of affect. While they fail at first to see their connections to spaces as mediated, in part because of their ages, they begin ultimately to recognize both the constructed and mediated nature of their relationships at home and in the diaspora.

Research paper thumbnail of Black Lives Matter Reading Group: Hosted by Dr. Camille Isaacs

Slides that accompanied a lecture by Dr. Camille Isaacs on the work of author and activist Desmon... more Slides that accompanied a lecture by Dr. Camille Isaacs on the work of author and activist Desmond Col

Research paper thumbnail of a review of international english literature a postcolonial Odyssey a review of international english literature contents

Research paper thumbnail of Mediating women’s globalized existence through social media in the work of Adichie and Bulawayo

Safundi, 2016

This article considers the transmission of affect through social media in the recent work of Chim... more This article considers the transmission of affect through social media in the recent work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah) and NoViolet Bulawayo (We Need New Names). The young protagonists, Ifemelu and Darling, both use the Internet and various social media to question the disembodied and deterritorialized spaces that digital networks potentially engender. While they at first fail to see their connections to spaces as mediated, in part because of their youthful ages, they ultimately begin to recognize both the constructed and mediated nature of the relationships at home and in the diaspora. What the young women's examples demonstrate is that the Internet or blogosphere constitute peculiar spaces of access to both homelands left behind and the host cultures. They ultimately reach the conclusion that, despite the visual, aural, and synchronous contact that computermediated communication allows, the lack of a physically present body limits the transmission of affect. The fiction of NoViolet Bulawayo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie attends to questions of space and belonging in relation to diasporic experience in the global era. Each writer published a novel in 2013 that features new-media-driven narratives; each addresses issues of affect and access, which the influence of expanding virtual networks on social relations is making increasingly visible. In Bulawayo's We Need New Names, a teenager named Darling finds herself transported from the community of "Paradise, " Bulawayo, to "Destroyedmichygen, " which is to say Detroit, Michigan, swapping one constructed idea of home for another. In Adichie's Americanah, a young woman, Ifemelu, emigrates on a scholarship to the US, but decides ultimately that she does not want to live with a computer-mediated notion of her homeland, Nigeria. Darling and Ifemelu both use the Internet and various forms of social media to question the disembodied and deterritorialized spaces that digital networks potentially engender, and the impact these media have on the transmission of affect. While they fail at first to see their connections to spaces as mediated, in part because of their ages, they begin ultimately to recognize both the constructed and mediated nature of their relationships at home and in the diaspora.

Research paper thumbnail of A binding of community: storytelling and identity construction in black Canadian literaure

Research paper thumbnail of History turned "upside dung": The English as underdog in Zadie Smith's White Teeth

A literary criticism of the book "White Teeth," by Zadie Smith is presented. It explore... more A literary criticism of the book "White Teeth," by Zadie Smith is presented. It explores how the author come to a notion of Great Britain as vanquished due to its continuing internal hegemony. It highlights the multiple histories, multiple truths that the novel depicted for the future of region. It examines how the author describes the social conflict in the region and it is concluded that the author's construction of decay is the death of an idea.

Research paper thumbnail of “Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated”: Postcolonial Theory and “The Politics of Postcoloniality”

Ariel-a Review of International English Literature, 2005

In Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri contend that "postmodernist and postcolonial theo... more In Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri contend that "postmodernist and postcolonial theories may end up in a dead end because they fail to recognize adequately the contemporary object of critique, that is, they mistake today's real enemy" (137). It is to respond to critiques such as this and others that the "Politics of Postcoloniality: Contexts and Conflicts" conference was held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario Canada in October 2003. Bringing together many North American scholars in the field, the conference organizers sought to find answers to the question of whether it was time to move "beyond postcolonialism." Through keynote speakers--Diana Brydon, Himani Bannerji, and Asha Varadharajan--as well as a number of other panelists, the conference was more than just a host of postcolonial scholars trying to save the field in which they work. In addition to addressing the problems of postcolonial theory, the participants also put forwa...

Research paper thumbnail of Acts of Trespass and Collapsing Borders: Alternate Landscapes in Contemporary Caribbean-Canadian Literature

Research paper thumbnail of Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imaging Political Culture Beyond the Color Line

Ariel-a Review of International English Literature, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Fear of a Diluted Blackness

TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies

health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehe... more health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehensive analysis on the events that have shaped Canada, CHR publishes articles that examine Canadian history from both a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective.

Research paper thumbnail of Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imaging Political Culture Beyond the Color Line

Ariel a Review of International English Literature, Apr 1, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated": Postcolonial Theory and "The Politics of Postcoloniality

Ariel a Review of International English Literature, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of “There Were No Elders. Only Old Men”: Aging and Misogyny in Austin Clarke’s Later Fiction

Research paper thumbnail of Putting Black Lives Matter into Canadian Literary Studies

Studies in Canadian Literature-etudes En Litterature Canadienne, Dec 19, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Written on the Body: Personal Monumentalization in the Work of David Chariandy and Tessa McWatt

Studies in Canadian Literature-etudes En Litterature Canadienne, Dec 19, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Mediating women’s globalized existence through social media in the work of Adichie and Bulawayo

Safundi, Apr 2, 2016

This article considers the transmission of affect through social media in the recent work of Chim... more This article considers the transmission of affect through social media in the recent work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah) and NoViolet Bulawayo (We Need New Names). The young protagonists, Ifemelu and Darling, both use the Internet and various social media to question the disembodied and deterritorialized spaces that digital networks potentially engender. While they at first fail to see their connections to spaces as mediated, in part because of their youthful ages, they ultimately begin to recognize both the constructed and mediated nature of the relationships at home and in the diaspora. What the young women's examples demonstrate is that the Internet or blogosphere constitute peculiar spaces of access to both homelands left behind and the host cultures. They ultimately reach the conclusion that, despite the visual, aural, and synchronous contact that computermediated communication allows, the lack of a physically present body limits the transmission of affect. The fiction of NoViolet Bulawayo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie attends to questions of space and belonging in relation to diasporic experience in the global era. Each writer published a novel in 2013 that features new-media-driven narratives; each addresses issues of affect and access, which the influence of expanding virtual networks on social relations is making increasingly visible. In Bulawayo's We Need New Names, a teenager named Darling finds herself transported from the community of "Paradise, " Bulawayo, to "Destroyedmichygen, " which is to say Detroit, Michigan, swapping one constructed idea of home for another. In Adichie's Americanah, a young woman, Ifemelu, emigrates on a scholarship to the US, but decides ultimately that she does not want to live with a computer-mediated notion of her homeland, Nigeria. Darling and Ifemelu both use the Internet and various forms of social media to question the disembodied and deterritorialized spaces that digital networks potentially engender, and the impact these media have on the transmission of affect. While they fail at first to see their connections to spaces as mediated, in part because of their ages, they begin ultimately to recognize both the constructed and mediated nature of their relationships at home and in the diaspora.

Research paper thumbnail of Acts of Trespass and Collapsing Borders: Alternate Landscapes in Contemporary Caribbean-Canadian Literature

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of “Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated”: Postcolonial Theory and “The Politics of Postcoloniality”

Ariel-a Review of International English Literature, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Fear of a Diluted Blackness

Topia: The Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Nov 1, 2016

health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehe... more health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehensive analysis on the events that have shaped Canada, CHR publishes articles that examine Canadian history from both a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective.

Research paper thumbnail of Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imaging Political Culture Beyond the Color Line

Ariel-a Review of International English Literature, Apr 1, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Mediating women's globalized existence through social media in the work of Adichie and Bulawayo

Routledge eBooks, Oct 11, 2018

This article considers the transmission of affect through social media in the recent work of Chim... more This article considers the transmission of affect through social media in the recent work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah) and NoViolet Bulawayo (We Need New Names). The young protagonists, Ifemelu and Darling, both use the Internet and various social media to question the disembodied and deterritorialized spaces that digital networks potentially engender. While they at first fail to see their connections to spaces as mediated, in part because of their youthful ages, they ultimately begin to recognize both the constructed and mediated nature of the relationships at home and in the diaspora. What the young women's examples demonstrate is that the Internet or blogosphere constitute peculiar spaces of access to both homelands left behind and the host cultures. They ultimately reach the conclusion that, despite the visual, aural, and synchronous contact that computermediated communication allows, the lack of a physically present body limits the transmission of affect. The fiction of NoViolet Bulawayo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie attends to questions of space and belonging in relation to diasporic experience in the global era. Each writer published a novel in 2013 that features new-media-driven narratives; each addresses issues of affect and access, which the influence of expanding virtual networks on social relations is making increasingly visible. In Bulawayo's We Need New Names, a teenager named Darling finds herself transported from the community of "Paradise, " Bulawayo, to "Destroyedmichygen, " which is to say Detroit, Michigan, swapping one constructed idea of home for another. In Adichie's Americanah, a young woman, Ifemelu, emigrates on a scholarship to the US, but decides ultimately that she does not want to live with a computer-mediated notion of her homeland, Nigeria. Darling and Ifemelu both use the Internet and various forms of social media to question the disembodied and deterritorialized spaces that digital networks potentially engender, and the impact these media have on the transmission of affect. While they fail at first to see their connections to spaces as mediated, in part because of their ages, they begin ultimately to recognize both the constructed and mediated nature of their relationships at home and in the diaspora.

Research paper thumbnail of Black Lives Matter Reading Group: Hosted by Dr. Camille Isaacs

Slides that accompanied a lecture by Dr. Camille Isaacs on the work of author and activist Desmon... more Slides that accompanied a lecture by Dr. Camille Isaacs on the work of author and activist Desmond Col

Research paper thumbnail of a review of international english literature a postcolonial Odyssey a review of international english literature contents

Research paper thumbnail of Mediating women’s globalized existence through social media in the work of Adichie and Bulawayo

Safundi, 2016

This article considers the transmission of affect through social media in the recent work of Chim... more This article considers the transmission of affect through social media in the recent work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah) and NoViolet Bulawayo (We Need New Names). The young protagonists, Ifemelu and Darling, both use the Internet and various social media to question the disembodied and deterritorialized spaces that digital networks potentially engender. While they at first fail to see their connections to spaces as mediated, in part because of their youthful ages, they ultimately begin to recognize both the constructed and mediated nature of the relationships at home and in the diaspora. What the young women's examples demonstrate is that the Internet or blogosphere constitute peculiar spaces of access to both homelands left behind and the host cultures. They ultimately reach the conclusion that, despite the visual, aural, and synchronous contact that computermediated communication allows, the lack of a physically present body limits the transmission of affect. The fiction of NoViolet Bulawayo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie attends to questions of space and belonging in relation to diasporic experience in the global era. Each writer published a novel in 2013 that features new-media-driven narratives; each addresses issues of affect and access, which the influence of expanding virtual networks on social relations is making increasingly visible. In Bulawayo's We Need New Names, a teenager named Darling finds herself transported from the community of "Paradise, " Bulawayo, to "Destroyedmichygen, " which is to say Detroit, Michigan, swapping one constructed idea of home for another. In Adichie's Americanah, a young woman, Ifemelu, emigrates on a scholarship to the US, but decides ultimately that she does not want to live with a computer-mediated notion of her homeland, Nigeria. Darling and Ifemelu both use the Internet and various forms of social media to question the disembodied and deterritorialized spaces that digital networks potentially engender, and the impact these media have on the transmission of affect. While they fail at first to see their connections to spaces as mediated, in part because of their ages, they begin ultimately to recognize both the constructed and mediated nature of their relationships at home and in the diaspora.

Research paper thumbnail of A binding of community: storytelling and identity construction in black Canadian literaure

Research paper thumbnail of History turned "upside dung": The English as underdog in Zadie Smith's White Teeth

A literary criticism of the book "White Teeth," by Zadie Smith is presented. It explore... more A literary criticism of the book "White Teeth," by Zadie Smith is presented. It explores how the author come to a notion of Great Britain as vanquished due to its continuing internal hegemony. It highlights the multiple histories, multiple truths that the novel depicted for the future of region. It examines how the author describes the social conflict in the region and it is concluded that the author's construction of decay is the death of an idea.

Research paper thumbnail of “Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated”: Postcolonial Theory and “The Politics of Postcoloniality”

Ariel-a Review of International English Literature, 2005

In Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri contend that "postmodernist and postcolonial theo... more In Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri contend that "postmodernist and postcolonial theories may end up in a dead end because they fail to recognize adequately the contemporary object of critique, that is, they mistake today's real enemy" (137). It is to respond to critiques such as this and others that the "Politics of Postcoloniality: Contexts and Conflicts" conference was held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario Canada in October 2003. Bringing together many North American scholars in the field, the conference organizers sought to find answers to the question of whether it was time to move "beyond postcolonialism." Through keynote speakers--Diana Brydon, Himani Bannerji, and Asha Varadharajan--as well as a number of other panelists, the conference was more than just a host of postcolonial scholars trying to save the field in which they work. In addition to addressing the problems of postcolonial theory, the participants also put forwa...

Research paper thumbnail of Acts of Trespass and Collapsing Borders: Alternate Landscapes in Contemporary Caribbean-Canadian Literature

Research paper thumbnail of Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imaging Political Culture Beyond the Color Line

Ariel-a Review of International English Literature, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Fear of a Diluted Blackness

TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies

health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehe... more health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehensive analysis on the events that have shaped Canada, CHR publishes articles that examine Canadian history from both a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective.

Research paper thumbnail of Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imaging Political Culture Beyond the Color Line

Ariel a Review of International English Literature, Apr 1, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated": Postcolonial Theory and "The Politics of Postcoloniality

Ariel a Review of International English Literature, 2005