Here is my latest academic contribution to the project of enlightenment in the form of outpouring of textbooks.
BETWEEN GAZES: FEMINIST, QUEER AND OTHER FILMS is a text book in which I introduce key terms in feminist, queer, and postcolonial/diaspora film. My point of departure is in the question “what do you want from me?” Although [...]
“CARPE DIEM IN BLACK AND WHITE: Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers” (by Camelia Elias)
One of the perennial discussions of the concept of the fragment and fragmentary forms revolves around the status of the fragment and the fragmentary in relation to a presupposed whole. Is the fragment a remnant of something broken? Something that has been detached [...]
Since the early 60s, Raymond Federman has been one of the most important American writers. In his highly experimental fictions – works that bear such titles as Take It or Leave It, Double or Nothing, and The Twofold Vibrations – he has explored cultural and personal memory, invented intricate narrative strategies, and above all has [...]
Camelia Elias, Roskilde University
I have recently attended a conference in Reims on the interesting topic The Cultural Kernel. On popular demand, for those that can’t wait for the paper to come out in Imaginaires, here’s a preview. This pre-publication is also in response to Stuart Noble’s call for papers dealing with American women writers.My essay [...]
Two of my distinguished colleagues – one also a husband, the other also a friend – have managed to beat me by seconds in the run for posting thoughts on the Atlantic Community. This is the second time today that men, tall men, have topped me. Now I must respond, and I can just as [...]
CAMELIA ELIAS
Associate Professor of American Studies, Roskilde University
Some of the best contemporary culture critics in the US, and prophets of the future, have been writers of fiction with an immigrant background. What enables these writers to make fairly accurate predictions and statements about the state and future manifestations of American culture as observed in literary [...]
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