Resistance Literature Barbara Harlow Pdf Compressor

In her long association with Texas, she taught and trained students who have now become leaders in the field of post-colonial studies and teach in English and literature departments around the world. While there she became immersed in Arabic literature and became an ardent supporter of the Palestinian cause, for example by producing a pioneering translation of Ghassan Kanafani’s Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa and other Stories.Īfter returning to the US, Harlow taught at Wesleyan University and at Hobart and William Smith Colleges before joining the University of Texas in 1985, where she was the Louann and Larry Temple Professor of English Literatures in the Department of English. Harlow accepted her first teaching post, at the American University in Cairo, in 1977. She wrote her dissertation on Marcel Proust and was an early translator into English of Jacques Derrida’s Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles. She completed her doctorate in comparative literature in 1977 at the State University of New York-Buffalo. She continued her studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris as well as at the Free University in Berlin. Harlow earned her bachelor’s degree in French and philosophy from Simmons College in Boston in 1970 and a master’s degree in Romance languages and literatures from the University of Chicago in 1972. Harlow’s writings on political prisoners, and her later work on biographies of literary figures who were also political activists in South Africa, Palestine and El Salvador, have guided many scholars toward the possibility of contesting the boundaries of the political and the aesthetic.

Similarly, fiction should be read, she stated, to raise historical, sociological and political questions. She argued that scholars should pay critical attention to journalistic writings and subject them to close readings as they do literary texts. In that lecture Harlow framed her book as an experiment that brought together history, criticism and journalism. This book examined the struggle of female political prisoners in different parts of the world through memoirs, novels, poetry and documentaries. I first met Professor Barbara Harlow (1948-2017) in the autumn of 1992, while conducting field research in Egypt, when she gave her talk at the American University in Cairo on her new book, Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention (Wesleyan University Press, 1992).

Resistance Literature Barbara Harlow Pdf Compressor