How to Survive Totalitarianism. Lessons from Hannah Arendt (2023)
Journal Article
Roth, Z. (2023). How to Survive Totalitarianism. Lessons from Hannah Arendt. New Literary History, 54(2), 1059-1083

In the wake of the Trump election, Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism garnered renewed attention. In it, she argues that totalitarian ideology "is severed from the world individuals perceive through the five senses "and insists on a 'truer' r... Read More about How to Survive Totalitarianism. Lessons from Hannah Arendt.

Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature (2022)
Book
Roth, Z. (2022). Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature. Edinburgh University Press

Formal Matters re-examines the postmodernist insistence that the body escapes signification by turning to an unexpected source: early and mid-century formalisms. Bringing together formalism’s endeavour to give shape to the ineffable with postmodernis... Read More about Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature.

Introduction: Race and the Aesthetic in French and Francophone Cultures (2019)
Journal Article
Bishop, C., & Roth, Z. (2019). Introduction: Race and the Aesthetic in French and Francophone Cultures. Esprit Créateur, 59(2), https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2019.0012

“You can change your noses, but you can’t change your Moses”: Olfactory Aesthetics and the Jewish “Race” (2019)
Journal Article
Roth, Z. (2019). “You can change your noses, but you can’t change your Moses”: Olfactory Aesthetics and the Jewish “Race”. Esprit Créateur, 59(2), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2019.0017

This article shifts the analysis of the ‘Jewish’ nose away from its visual significance to its olfactory capacity. It develops the notion of an olfactory aesthetics as a way of becoming attuned to the role smell plays in the interpretation of racial... Read More about “You can change your noses, but you can’t change your Moses”: Olfactory Aesthetics and the Jewish “Race”.

Misstrauisch lesen: Feministische Perspektiven auf eine Sexsucht-Fantasie (2019)
Book Chapter
Ní Dhúill, C. (2019). Misstrauisch lesen: Feministische Perspektiven auf eine Sexsucht-Fantasie. In C. Ruthner, & M. Schmidt (Eds.), Die Mutzenbacher : (Re-)Lektüren eines Wiener Skandalromans. Sonderzahl

'Subrisio saltat.'. Translating the acrobat in Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies (2019)
Book Chapter
Ní Dhúill, C. (2019). 'Subrisio saltat.'. Translating the acrobat in Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies. In J. Harding, & J. Nash (Eds.), Modernism and non-translation (137-152). Oxford University Press

War of Images or Images of War? Visualizing History in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones (2017)
Journal Article
Roth, Z. (2017). War of Images or Images of War? Visualizing History in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones. Journal of modern literature, 41(1), 81-99. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.41.1.06

The Kindly Ones (2006), a French novel written by the American author Jonathan Littell, explores the Holocaust from a perpetrator's point of view. The novel is replete with detailed historical analysis and intertextual references, but its narrative i... Read More about War of Images or Images of War? Visualizing History in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones.

Frontière humaine: Race, Nation, and the Shape of Representation in Claude Cahun. (2017)
Book Chapter
Roth, Z. (2017). Frontière humaine: Race, Nation, and the Shape of Representation in Claude Cahun. In M. H. Gelber, & S. Sjöberg (Eds.), Jewish Aspects in the Avant-Garde: Between Rebellion and Revelation (119-140). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110454956-009

Real and Ideal Spaces: Writing, embodiment, and the beach in contemporary French literature (2016)
Book Chapter
Roth, Z. (2016). Real and Ideal Spaces: Writing, embodiment, and the beach in contemporary French literature. In S. Fuggle (Ed.), La Ligne d'écume: Towards a new topography of the French beach (177-192). Pavement Books

Indigestible Biographies: Limits to the Narrative Processing of Life (2016)
Book Chapter
Ní Dhúill, C. (2016). Indigestible Biographies: Limits to the Narrative Processing of Life. In A. Babka, M. Bidwell-Steiner, & W. Mueller-Funk (Eds.), Narrative im Bruch (223-238). V&R unipress. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737005968.223

Biography – ‘the story of a person told by someone else’1 – brings life into narrative form. In this article, I consider some of the fractures and failures that can attend this process, the places where the biographical text reveals life’s resistance... Read More about Indigestible Biographies: Limits to the Narrative Processing of Life.

Negating the Family: Ritual and Dionysus in modernist utopia (2016)
Journal Article
Ní Dhúill, C. (2016). Negating the Family: Ritual and Dionysus in modernist utopia. Cultural Dynamics, 28(1), 55-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374015623389

Formations such as gangs stand in a complex relationship to other, more conventional or socially normative groupings and collectives, such as the family. This article probes the gang’s function as a kind of alternative family and as a lens through wh... Read More about Negating the Family: Ritual and Dionysus in modernist utopia.

Refusing the Child: Weininger, Edelman, Kertész (2016)
Journal Article
Ní Dhúill, C. (2016). Refusing the Child: Weininger, Edelman, Kertész. Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication, 37(3), 369-385. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3599315

If human reproduction is a realm of future-making practice, its refusal or absence effects a reconceptualization of the future. The article examines three very different refusals of the child: the idealist antinatalism of Otto Weininger's Sex and Cha... Read More about Refusing the Child: Weininger, Edelman, Kertész.

Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel (2015)
Book
Cairns, L. (2015). Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel. Liverpool University Press

This book considers the differing emotional investments in Israel of, on the one hand, Jews physically domiciled in Israel and, on the other hand, diasporic Jews living outside Israel for whom the country nonetheless forms a central point of affect.... Read More about Francophone Jewish Writers Imagining Israel.

Bodily Dis-Ease in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Two Case Studies (2015)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. (2015). Bodily Dis-Ease in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Two Case Studies. French Studies, 69(4), 494-508. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knv150

This article examines two twenty-first-century autobiographical accounts of the intense — and ultimately life-threatening — mental and bodily dis-ease endured by two young French women from adolescence into early adulthood. Annick Loupias's La Tortue... Read More about Bodily Dis-Ease in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Two Case Studies.

Jewish Children’s Homes in Post-Holocaust France. Personal Témoignages (2015)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2015). Jewish Children’s Homes in Post-Holocaust France. Personal Témoignages. In S. Hand, & S. T. Katz (Eds.), Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-1955 (139-155). New York University Press

Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe’s Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the majority of the Jewish population perished, France... Read More about Jewish Children’s Homes in Post-Holocaust France. Personal Témoignages.

Re-thinking ‘Identities’: Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium (2014)
Book
Cairns, L., & Fouz Hernández, S. (Eds.). (2014). Re-thinking ‘Identities’: Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0607-1

This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts that examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives, there is a su... Read More about Re-thinking ‘Identities’: Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium.

Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L., & Fouz-Hernandez, S. (2014). Introduction. In L. Cairns, & S. Fouz-Hernandez (Eds.), Rethinking 'identities' : cultural articulations of alterity and resistance in the new millennium (1-18). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0607-1

This volume sets out to reimagine and extend the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts which examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives, th... Read More about Introduction.

Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists (2014)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2014). Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists. In L. Cairns, & S. Fouz Hernández (Eds.), Rethinking ‘identities’ : cultural articulations of alterity and resistance in the new millennium (21-42). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0607-1

In this essay, I examine contemporary renegotiations of feminism that constitute a challenge not only for self-defined feminists, but also for mainstream interpretive communities, and that in fact have the potential for a quasi-universal impact. I do... Read More about Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists.

Righteous Realism Versus Postmodern Play: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Female-Authored French Fiction (2014)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. (2014). Righteous Realism Versus Postmodern Play: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Female-Authored French Fiction. Modern and Contemporary France, 22(1), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2013.867151

This article analyses literary mediations of francophone Jewish attitudes towards Israel, and particularly towards the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Its primary corpus comprises two female-authored novels published during the Second Intifada: Olivia... Read More about Righteous Realism Versus Postmodern Play: The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict in Female-Authored French Fiction.

Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American "Others" (2014)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2014). Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American "Others". In M. Rossello, & S. Dasgupta (Eds.), What's queer about Europe? : productive encounters and re-enchanting paradigms (91-113). Fordham University Press