Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation studies a diverse range of media representations of borders, imagined borders, border struggles, collectivity boundaries and scenes of translation: films, documentaries, literary texts, photographs, websites and other media texts and artistic interventions.
The book makes a case for bringing together media texts and sociocultural experiences across multiple platforms. It argues that this transdisciplinary approach is singularly suited to the age of media convergence, when words, speech, music, videos and images compete for attention on the screens of digital devices where the written, oral, aural and visual are constantly mixed and remixed.
But it also reminds the reader of the digital divides linked to socioeconomic, cultural, language and geopolitical borders. With its focus on sociocultural borders and translation, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of media studies, African studies and cultural studies. Feminist, psychoanalytic and queer readings, among others, have demonstrated the extent of the functions and roles fulfilled by the body, as well as the number of critical perspectives it can serve.
However, by and large, African representations of the body have been overlooked. This coherent volume brings together essays on the portrayal of the body in African art, film, literature, photography and theatre.
The book includes thematically linked contributions which explore issues of power and representation, and reflects current trends in the study of the body and more broadly within the field of African Studies. Entanglement aims to capture the contradictory mixture of innovation and inertia, of loss, violence and xenophobia as well as experimentation and desegregation, which characterises the present. The author explores the concept of entanglement in relation to readings of literature, new media forms and painting.
In the process, she moves away from a persistent apartheid optic, drawing on ideas of sameness and difference, and their limits, in order to elicit ways of living and imagining that are just starting to take shape and for which we might not yet have a name. In the background of her investigations lies a preoccupation with a future-oriented politics, one that builds on largely unexplored terrains of mutuality while being attentive to a historical experience of confrontation and injury.
Popular Books. Twelve Days of Christmas by Debbie Macomber. Readers are introduced to everyday life in Hillbrow and are also familiarised with its geography since the grid of Welcome to our All. However, these descriptions are Trips: Phaswane. So far we have seen Johannesburg depicted from the perspective of relatively Welcome to Our Hillbrow The image of the harried and desperate intellectual , turning out tracts of critical thought in the midst of assaults on their mortal constitution , has often been posited as the essential character of the On the metafictional level, however, these texts often put such 'misreadings' into perspective and, in doing so, open up an otherwise monochrome reflection of South Africa's rainbow.
Hillbrow [ Whatever the cause of his death, he will surely Neville Hoad reflects on how Welcome to Our Hillbrow , in its title and its content, invokes both a geographical specificity and a 'form of worldliness'.
It invokes, that is, the geographical place to which we are being welcomed But certainly, I wrote Welcome to our Hillbrow with the purpose of keeping myself busy, and in my case it worked extremely well. I locked myself in that office for the whole day and almost the whole night.
I left just before six o'clock In a style reminiscent of James Joyce's in Ulysses, Phaswane Mpe sketches a map of a city in Welcome to Our Hillbrow so that with the novella in hand, the reader can walk from one end of it to the other without losing his or her way.
Hillbrow , a densely packed Johannesburg neighborhood near the city center, has long been a neighborhood of immigrants, from Italians and Greeks in the midtwentieth century to Congolese and Hillbrow ,.
Welcome toOur Hillbrow , Phaswane Mpe's influential work,is also concerned with the spatial legacy of Skip to content. Scottsville, South Africa, "--T. Speculating on cultural practices interpreted by missionaries as sodomy and resistance to colonialism, Neville Hoad begins by analyzing the Bugandan martyrs incident—the execution of thirty men in the royal court.
Those interactions have been both destructive and richly productive, and the consequences continue to 'trouble the living stream' today. Several of the essays focus on the continuing reverberations of political and cultural conflicts in post-Apartheid Southern Africa, including the presence in Britain of Zimbabwean asylum seekers.
Other authors discuss the ways in which Indian culture has transformed novelistic and cinematic forms. A third group of essays examines the attempts of West Indian women writers to reclaim their territory and describe it in their own terms. This book was previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly. The book's chapters are written by scholars from different disciplines who exemplify these groups' way of life, problems, etc.
The chapters describe their difficulties, but also their will to preserve their culture and language, and make their life better. Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation studies a diverse range of media representations of borders, imagined borders, border struggles, collectivity boundaries and scenes of translation: films, documentaries, literary texts, photographs, websites and other media texts and artistic interventions. The book makes a case for bringing together media texts and sociocultural experiences across multiple platforms.
It argues that this transdisciplinary approach is singularly suited to the age of media convergence, when words, speech, music, videos and images compete for attention on the screens of digital devices where the written, oral, aural and visual are constantly mixed and remixed. But it also reminds the reader of the digital divides linked to socioeconomic, cultural, language and geopolitical borders.
With its focus on sociocultural borders and translation, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of media studies, African studies and cultural studies.
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