Sarika Talve-Goodman

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, English, Post-Doc

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I received a Ph.D. in Literature at The University of California, San Diego in 2016. My dissertation, titled "Cultural Scars: Trauma and Disability in 20th Century Transnational Jewish Cultural Production," examines the cross-implication of bodily trauma and historical trauma. Spanning medical and literary archives from the modernist period to today, as well as multiple geographical and linguistic locations, I analyze overlapping metaphors of disability and trauma in canonical Jewish literatures. I argue that these metaphors constitute a critical discourse on modernity and the body, from the figure of the mentshele (little person) in the beginning of modern Yiddish literature in the mid-19th century to queer and female grotesque bodies in contemporary American and Israeli novels. My research bridges transnational modernism studies, Jewish cultural studies, trauma and disability studies, and critical theories of race, gender, and sexuality.

As a postdoctoral fellow, I am part of The European Research Council Project, "Apartheid--The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation" under the supervision of Dr. Louise Bethlehem. My current research examines how the apartheid regime shapes global modernism and transnational activism in the US during the Cold War and Civil Rights era, as well as traces these discourses around liberalism and race into the present.
Supervisors: Michael Davidson, Amelia Glaser, Page Dubois, Lisa Lampert-Weissig, Brian Goldfarb, Hana Wirth-Nesher

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Reflections on a Feminist Now in Places of Undying Colonialism

Reflections on a conference in collaboration between our ERC project, APARTHEID-STOPS, ... more Reflections on a conference in collaboration between our ERC project, APARTHEID-STOPS, The World Literatures: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics Research Programme at Stockholm University and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) in Johannesburg presented the opportunity for participants to enter into dialogue concerning our different localized and ongoing political struggles.

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Cold War carceral liberalism and other counternarratives: the case of Alan Paton’sCry, the Beloved Country

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This article traces a transnational cultural genealogy of postwar and early Cold War liberalism s... more This article traces a transnational cultural genealogy of postwar and early Cold War liberalism specifically shaped by prisons. Central to this genealogy is Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country, the South African novel that became a metonym for the tradition of South African political liberalism and liberal anti-apartheid fiction. The novel's carceral aspects have never been discussed in relation to Paton's prison reform articles from the same period, or within the framework of carceral studies. Reading the novel alongside Paton's prison writings highlights the constitutive role of the carceral statea regime of modern power spread across different sitesin liberal reformist agendas of the 1940s and 1950s. This case study traces Cold War carceral state building on a cultural terrain and provides opportunities to reflect on evolutions of present day "carceral solidarities"modes of culture and politics mediated by an expanding and globalized carceral state.

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Cultural Scars: The Poetics of Trauma and Disability in 20th Century Jewish Literature

Author(s): Talve-Goodman, Sarika | Advisor(s): Davidson, Michael; Glaser, Amelia | Abstract: Amid... more Author(s): Talve-Goodman, Sarika | Advisor(s): Davidson, Michael; Glaser, Amelia | Abstract: Amidst the emergence of modern European nation states and the racialized logic of global modernity, Jewish people began to be considered “sick,” first by official discourses of knowledge—such as government, medicine, and psychoanalysis—then by themselves. In turn-of-the-century psychoanalysis and racial science, hallmarks of global modernity, for example, hysteria was a disease associated with the immutable and inferior natures of women and Jewish men. Approaching Jewish literatures comparatively and transnationally, spanning medical and cultural archives from the modernist period to today, my project examines a cultural genealogy that tropes the modern Jew’s body as “sick”—a locus of sexual and racial difference. I bring scholarship on the modern Jewish body—by Sander Gilman, Todd Presner, Daniel Boyarin, and others—together with critical theories of modernity and their postcolonial revisio...

Cold War carceral liberalism and other counternarratives: the case of Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country

Cold War carceral liberalism and other counternarratives: the case of Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country, 2019

This article traces a transnational cultural genealogy of postwar and early Cold War liberalism s... more This article traces a transnational cultural genealogy of postwar and early Cold War liberalism specifically shaped by prisons. Central to this genealogy is Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country, the South African novel that became a metonym for the tradition of South African political liberalism and liberal anti-apartheid fiction. The novel’s carceral aspects have never been discussed in relation to Paton’s prison reform articles from the same period, or within the framework of carceral studies. Reading the novel alongside Paton’s prison writings highlights the constitutive role of the carceral state – a regime of modern power spread across different sites – in liberal reformist agendas of the 1940s and 1950s. This case study traces Cold War carceral state building on a cultural terrain and provides opportunities to reflect on evolutions of present day “carceral solidarities” – modes of culture and politics mediated by an expanding and globalized carceral state.

The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland by Cheryl Mattingly (review)

Literature and Medicine, 2012

Blog posts by Sarika Talve-Goodman

Reflections on a Feminist Now in Places of Undying Colonialism

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Cold War carceral liberalism and other counternarratives: the case of Alan Paton’sCry, the Beloved Country

Safundi

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Cultural Scars: The Poetics of Trauma and Disability in 20th Century Jewish Literature

Cold War carceral liberalism and other counternarratives: the case of Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country

Cold War carceral liberalism and other counternarratives: the case of Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country, 2019

This article traces a transnational cultural genealogy of postwar and early Cold War liberalism s... more This article traces a transnational cultural genealogy of postwar and early Cold War liberalism specifically shaped by prisons. Central to this genealogy is Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country, the South African novel that became a metonym for the tradition of South African political liberalism and liberal anti-apartheid fiction. The novel’s carceral aspects have never been discussed in relation to Paton’s prison reform articles from the same period, or within the framework of carceral studies. Reading the novel alongside Paton’s prison writings highlights the constitutive role of the carceral state – a regime of modern power spread across different sites – in liberal reformist agendas of the 1940s and 1950s. This case study traces Cold War carceral state building on a cultural terrain and provides opportunities to reflect on evolutions of present day “carceral solidarities” – modes of culture and politics mediated by an expanding and globalized carceral state.

The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland by Cheryl Mattingly (review)

Literature and Medicine, 2012

Reflections on a Feminist Now in Places of Undying Colonialism

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