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Papers by Heike Harting
University of Ottawa Press eBooks, Sep 25, 2018
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, Dec 24, 2010
The famous "four freedoms" laid out by Franklin Roosevelt were freedom of speech and religion, fr... more The famous "four freedoms" laid out by Franklin Roosevelt were freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and fear.. .. My candidate for top of the list is freedom of memory. Most Canadians are lucky enough to enjoy extensive access to their own history, with relatively few restrictions. In far too much of the world,. .. efforts to recapture the history of war, abuse and injustice are met with denial, indifference, scorn or outright terror. Yet there are people, often survivors of atrocities, who insist on the right to remember. .. Such a man is Mateo Pablo,. . .[a] 43-year-old Chuj Maya Indian, [who witnessed] the slaughter. .. [of] his wife and two children [by the] Guatemalan army. [He] now lives in Montreal.
Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化
The text and other elements (illustrations, imported files) are "All rights reserved&... more The text and other elements (illustrations, imported files) are "All rights reserved", unless otherwise stated.
Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化 Journal of Global Cultural Studies, 2022
The text and other elements (illustrations, imported files) are "All rights reserved", unless oth... more The text and other elements (illustrations, imported files) are "All rights reserved", unless otherwise stated.
IN HER ESSAY "The Site of Memory," Toni Morrison points out that to trace the inner liv... more IN HER ESSAY "The Site of Memory," Toni Morrison points out that to trace the inner lives of former slaves presupposes a "literary archeology" (112) that excavates memories from within. As part of an oral culture, these memories generate an archive of mental images and metaphors. They punctuate the psychological matrix that constitutes the unconscious and therefore operate from within the psyche. Not unlike the operations of Freudian dreamwork, the "memories within" can only be translated into text by figuratively encoding and decoding the flow of the unconscious. This process of translation, however, cannot uncover a complete or total truth locked in metaphor. On the contrary, translation establishes metaphor as a contested and multi-accentuated textual space as the memories-which constitute a symbolic net of metaphors-are always already culturally and historically coded even before they enter the subconscious. Morrison emphasizes that "these '...
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2013
This essay examines the visual politics of Patrick Reed’s documentary Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’... more This essay examines the visual politics of Patrick Reed’s documentary Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma (2008) and Larysa Kondracki’s feature film The Whistleblower (2010). Both of these films investigate the relationship between aesthetics and politics, the encounter with the other, and what Jacques Rancière calls ‘the distribution of the sensible.’ In contrast to Rancière, this essay explores how the redistribution of the sensible operates through the highly racialized, gendered, and spectacular technologies of humanitarian film productions. It examines what it means to encounter the other not as a human being but as a visual image, and explores the relationship between the economics of the image (the abject as coded in the trafficked foreign female body) and the consumers and agents of visual abjection in the context of humanitarian interventionism. It rereads Rancière’s notion of dissensus in gendered terms, and thus seeks to unsettle given modes of the humanitar...
Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature …, 2003
Caietele Echinox, 2020
Situated at the historical juncture of increased global violence, retronationalism, neoliberalism... more Situated at the historical juncture of increased global violence, retronationalism, neoliberalism, techno-positivism, environmental and humanitarian disaster, the planet and life itself are in crisis and human “reason is on trial” (Mbembe). This post-global planetary emergency also signifies a crisis of the cultural and political imagination (Gosh) and a lack of critical paradigms through which to address this crisis creatively. This essay discusses a number of analytical terms—noise, the immaterial, rupture/event, the “environmental uncanny” (Gosh), “re-existence” (Mignolo)—to read the planetary in (im)material and decolonial terms as configurations of the incalculable.
ESC: English Studies in Canada
Ariel a Review of International English Literature, Oct 1, 1998
Caietele Echinox, 2020
Situated at the historical juncture of increased global violence, retronationalism, neoliberalism... more Situated at the historical juncture of increased global violence, retronationalism, neoliberalism, techno-positivism, environmental and humanitarian disaster, the planet and life itself are in crisis and human "reason is on trial" (Mbembe). This post-global planetary emergency also signifies a crisis of the cultural and political imagination (Gosh) and a lack of critical paradigms through which to address this crisis creatively. This essay discusses a number of analytical terms-noise, the immaterial, rupture/event, the "environmental uncanny" (Gosh), "re-existence" (Mignolo)-to read the planetary in (im)material and decolonial terms as configurations of the incalculable.
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2009
... international security' (8), a 'price paid' (7) as par... more ... international security' (8), a 'price paid' (7) as part of the nation's utilitarian economy necessary ... The final essay in the issue, by Najat Rahman, approaches national security through its ... expressions of insecurity' that invite us to reconsider what constitutes the human and difference ...
Esc English Studies in Canada, May 29, 2007
Studies in Canadian Literature Etudes En Litterature Canadienne, Jun 6, 2007
His reflections were deflected -a chained goat with a hard penis rubbing against a stone wall, a ... more His reflections were deflected -a chained goat with a hard penis rubbing against a stone wall, a beached whale with sea maggots crawling from its lacerations, a terrapin on its back with its neck arched in eloquent vulnerability … . He was beginning to indulge in melancholy.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2008
... I also thank Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi for stimulating debates and Ute Härting for drawing my at... more ... I also thank Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi for stimulating debates and Ute Härting for drawing my attention to Marcel Odenbach's work and sharing her vast and critical insights into the aesthetics of video art. ... (London: Metrodome, 2006); Un dimanche à Kigali (A Sunday in Kigali ...
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2008
Abstract The essays collected in this issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the ... more Abstract The essays collected in this issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East explore the ways in which writers and artists from Africa and the Middle East have deployed diverse genres and modes of narrative or discursive practices in order not ...
University of Ottawa Press eBooks, Sep 25, 2018
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, Dec 24, 2010
The famous "four freedoms" laid out by Franklin Roosevelt were freedom of speech and religion, fr... more The famous "four freedoms" laid out by Franklin Roosevelt were freedom of speech and religion, freedom from want and fear.. .. My candidate for top of the list is freedom of memory. Most Canadians are lucky enough to enjoy extensive access to their own history, with relatively few restrictions. In far too much of the world,. .. efforts to recapture the history of war, abuse and injustice are met with denial, indifference, scorn or outright terror. Yet there are people, often survivors of atrocities, who insist on the right to remember. .. Such a man is Mateo Pablo,. . .[a] 43-year-old Chuj Maya Indian, [who witnessed] the slaughter. .. [of] his wife and two children [by the] Guatemalan army. [He] now lives in Montreal.
Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化
The text and other elements (illustrations, imported files) are "All rights reserved&... more The text and other elements (illustrations, imported files) are "All rights reserved", unless otherwise stated.
Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化 Journal of Global Cultural Studies, 2022
The text and other elements (illustrations, imported files) are "All rights reserved", unless oth... more The text and other elements (illustrations, imported files) are "All rights reserved", unless otherwise stated.
IN HER ESSAY "The Site of Memory," Toni Morrison points out that to trace the inner liv... more IN HER ESSAY "The Site of Memory," Toni Morrison points out that to trace the inner lives of former slaves presupposes a "literary archeology" (112) that excavates memories from within. As part of an oral culture, these memories generate an archive of mental images and metaphors. They punctuate the psychological matrix that constitutes the unconscious and therefore operate from within the psyche. Not unlike the operations of Freudian dreamwork, the "memories within" can only be translated into text by figuratively encoding and decoding the flow of the unconscious. This process of translation, however, cannot uncover a complete or total truth locked in metaphor. On the contrary, translation establishes metaphor as a contested and multi-accentuated textual space as the memories-which constitute a symbolic net of metaphors-are always already culturally and historically coded even before they enter the subconscious. Morrison emphasizes that "these '...
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2013
This essay examines the visual politics of Patrick Reed’s documentary Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’... more This essay examines the visual politics of Patrick Reed’s documentary Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma (2008) and Larysa Kondracki’s feature film The Whistleblower (2010). Both of these films investigate the relationship between aesthetics and politics, the encounter with the other, and what Jacques Rancière calls ‘the distribution of the sensible.’ In contrast to Rancière, this essay explores how the redistribution of the sensible operates through the highly racialized, gendered, and spectacular technologies of humanitarian film productions. It examines what it means to encounter the other not as a human being but as a visual image, and explores the relationship between the economics of the image (the abject as coded in the trafficked foreign female body) and the consumers and agents of visual abjection in the context of humanitarian interventionism. It rereads Rancière’s notion of dissensus in gendered terms, and thus seeks to unsettle given modes of the humanitar...
Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature …, 2003
Caietele Echinox, 2020
Situated at the historical juncture of increased global violence, retronationalism, neoliberalism... more Situated at the historical juncture of increased global violence, retronationalism, neoliberalism, techno-positivism, environmental and humanitarian disaster, the planet and life itself are in crisis and human “reason is on trial” (Mbembe). This post-global planetary emergency also signifies a crisis of the cultural and political imagination (Gosh) and a lack of critical paradigms through which to address this crisis creatively. This essay discusses a number of analytical terms—noise, the immaterial, rupture/event, the “environmental uncanny” (Gosh), “re-existence” (Mignolo)—to read the planetary in (im)material and decolonial terms as configurations of the incalculable.
ESC: English Studies in Canada
Ariel a Review of International English Literature, Oct 1, 1998
Caietele Echinox, 2020
Situated at the historical juncture of increased global violence, retronationalism, neoliberalism... more Situated at the historical juncture of increased global violence, retronationalism, neoliberalism, techno-positivism, environmental and humanitarian disaster, the planet and life itself are in crisis and human "reason is on trial" (Mbembe). This post-global planetary emergency also signifies a crisis of the cultural and political imagination (Gosh) and a lack of critical paradigms through which to address this crisis creatively. This essay discusses a number of analytical terms-noise, the immaterial, rupture/event, the "environmental uncanny" (Gosh), "re-existence" (Mignolo)-to read the planetary in (im)material and decolonial terms as configurations of the incalculable.
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2009
... international security' (8), a 'price paid' (7) as par... more ... international security' (8), a 'price paid' (7) as part of the nation's utilitarian economy necessary ... The final essay in the issue, by Najat Rahman, approaches national security through its ... expressions of insecurity' that invite us to reconsider what constitutes the human and difference ...
Esc English Studies in Canada, May 29, 2007
Studies in Canadian Literature Etudes En Litterature Canadienne, Jun 6, 2007
His reflections were deflected -a chained goat with a hard penis rubbing against a stone wall, a ... more His reflections were deflected -a chained goat with a hard penis rubbing against a stone wall, a beached whale with sea maggots crawling from its lacerations, a terrapin on its back with its neck arched in eloquent vulnerability … . He was beginning to indulge in melancholy.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2008
... I also thank Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi for stimulating debates and Ute Härting for drawing my at... more ... I also thank Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi for stimulating debates and Ute Härting for drawing my attention to Marcel Odenbach's work and sharing her vast and critical insights into the aesthetics of video art. ... (London: Metrodome, 2006); Un dimanche à Kigali (A Sunday in Kigali ...
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2008
Abstract The essays collected in this issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the ... more Abstract The essays collected in this issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East explore the ways in which writers and artists from Africa and the Middle East have deployed diverse genres and modes of narrative or discursive practices in order not ...