Cultural Transformations

Perspectives on Translocation in a Global Age
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-420-3003-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 125, 347 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 753 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

Contemporary global culture is inevitably culture in translation. It encompasses encounter, exchange, and transformation, disruption and the emergence of the totally new. Drawing on contemporary theorists in fields of cultural studies and postcolonial studies, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the functions of cultural translation in – and as – translocation.
They analyze the uneven distribution of power and wealth alongside the unpredictable emergence of forms of agency in postcolonial and diasporic contexts, and in relation to the appetites of the global cultural and information economy. With diverse geocultural emphases, they refer to literature, film, television, electronic media, music, and other spaces of cultural gathering, collection, and performance. The essays span theoretical engagement and case study approaches, taking cultural materials and practices as objects, mediums, and agents of translocation. They contribute to vital contemporary debates about the politics of culture and peoples in translation.

Contributors: Andy Barratt; Dan Bendrups; Diana Brydon; Vijay Devadas; Jacob Edmond; Alyth Grant; Philip Hayward; Henry Johnson; Mary McLaughlin; Brett Nicholls; Chris Prentice; Kate Roy; Simon Ryan; Paola Voci.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Prentice, Chris

Devadas, Vijay

Johnson, Henry

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Wirtschaftliche Globalisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Chris Prentice, Vijay Devadas, and Henry Johnson: Introduction
Textual Translocations
Diana Brydon: Earth, World, Planet: Where Does the Postcolonial Literary Critic Stand?
Vijay Devadas: Affirming Diasporas as National Antinomies
Mary McLaughlin: Australian Infernos: Janette Turner Hospital’s Translation of Dante’s Hell into Contemporary Australia
Alyth Grant and Kate Roy: Between Mother Tongue, Grandfather Tongue and Foreign Tongue: A Turk in Translation
Jacob Edmond: A Poetics of Translocation: Yang Lian’s Auckland and Lyn Hejinian’s Leningrad
Musical Translocations
Dan Bendrups: Fusión Rapa Nui: Mito Manutomatoma and the Translocation of Easter Island Music in Chilean Popular Culture
Philip Hayward: Interactive Environments and the Context of Heritage: Culturally Engaged Research and Facilitation in Small-Island Societies
Henry Johnson: Constructing an ‘Other’ from Your ‘Own’: Localizing, Nationalizing, and Globalizing Nenezu (Nenes)
Visual Translocations
Paola Voci: Rejecting Words: Illiteracy, Silence, and the Visual
Chris Prentice: Integral Culture: Agora-Phobia at the Polynesian Cultural Centre
Brett Nicholls and Andy Barratt: The Kumars at No. 42: The Dynamics of Hyphenation, or Did Sanjeev Take Parkie Down?
Simon Ryan: Transl(oc)ating the Player: Are Some Computer- and Video-Game Players also Unpaid Workers in the Information Economy?
Notes on Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

All three editors teach at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Vijay Devadas teaches in the Department of Media, Film & Communication; his research is located at the intersections of media studies and critical theory. Henry Johnson is Professor in the Department of Music, and his teaching and research interests are in the field of ethnomusicology. Chris Prentice teaches Post-Colonial and New Zealand Literatures in the English Department; her research focuses on the politics of culture in decolonization.