Barbara Johnson

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human literary critic translator

Barbara Johnson was an influential American literary critic and translator known for her pioneering work in deconstruction, feminist theory, and the analysis of race and gender in literature.

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Label	Occurrences
Barbara Johnson canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ translator ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
educatedAt	Radcliffe College NERFINISHED ⓘ Yale University ⓘ
employer	Harvard University ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ Yale University ⓘ
fieldOfWork	French literature ⓘ deconstruction ⓘ feminist theory ⓘ gender studies ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ race and literature ⓘ translation studies ⓘ
genre	essay ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ literary theory ⓘ
influenced	American deconstructionist critics ⓘ feminist literary critics ⓘ scholars of race and literature ⓘ
influencedBy	Jacques Derrida NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul de Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Roland Barthes NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ French ⓘ
movement	deconstruction ⓘ feminist literary criticism ⓘ poststructuralism ⓘ
notableIdea	application of deconstruction to feminist theory ⓘ integration of race and gender analysis in literary criticism ⓘ reading as translation ⓘ
notableWork	A World of Difference NERFINISHED ⓘ Mother Tongues NERFINISHED ⓘ Persons and Things NERFINISHED ⓘ The Critical Difference NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wake of Deconstruction NERFINISHED ⓘ Translation as a Practice of Difference NERFINISHED ⓘ “Melville’s Fist” NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	literary theorist ⓘ professor ⓘ
placeOfWork	Cambridge, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ New Haven, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ Princeton, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ
sexOrGender	female ⓘ
translated	French literary theory texts ⓘ works of Jacques Derrida ⓘ

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Description of subject: Barbara Johnson was an influential American literary critic and translator known for her pioneering work in deconstruction, feminist theory, and the analysis of race and gender in literature.

Referenced by (1)

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Paul de Man → influenced → Barbara Johnson ⓘ