Leslie Barnes

is Lecturer in French Studies at the Australian National University. She is the author of Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature (2014).

Works By Leslie Barnes

What Lay In The Ashes: The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc by Ali Alizadeh
The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc blends fiction and nonfiction in its reconstruction of Jeanne’s life, not to offer a new conclusion about the warrior, but to urge us to view her otherwise than through the lens of her canonisation. The fictionalised
21 Nov. 2017
Playing the Part, Telling the Tale: Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
In the end, Playing the Whore is a book is about language, and in particular the way we use it to construct sex work as a field of knowledge and limit the control sex workers have over their own lives. It is about identifying sex work, not as some...
1 July. 2014