ISBN:
9789401206068
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (276 pages)
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
Palo Alto, Calif ebrary
Series Statement:
Thamyris intersecting: place, sex and race 19
Series Statement:
Thamyris, intersecting
Parallel Title:
Print version Migratory Settings
DDC:
304.8
Keywords:
Place (Philosophy) in art
;
Emigration and immigration in literature
;
Nomads in literature
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Migration
;
Mobilität
;
Raum
;
Migration
;
Ästhetik
;
Literatur
;
Künste
Abstract:
Migratory Settings proposes a shift in perspective from migration as movement from place to place to migration as installing movement within place. Migration not only takes place between places, but also has its effects on place, in place. In brief, we suggest a view on migration in which place is neither reified nor transcended, but 'thickened' as it becomes the setting of the variegated memories, imaginations, dreams, fantasies, nightmares, anticipations, and idealizations of both migrants and native inhabitants that experiences of migration bring into contact with each other. Migration make
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents ; Introduction: Migratory Settings; 'Heterochronotopical' Stagings; Heterochronotopia; Let's Fall in Love: Staging a Political Marriage; Staging Colonialism: The Mise-En-Scène of the Africa Museum in Tervuren, Belgium; African Translations and Transcontextualizations; Migratory Clichés: Recognizing Nyerere's The Capitalists of Venice; Antigone on the African Stage: "Wherever the Call for Freedom is Heard!"; Zimbabwe and the Politics of the Everyday in Doris Lessing's African Laughter; Gollwitz, Calais, Tahiti: 'Hostipitable' Places
Description / Table of Contents:
Better Germans? 'Hostipitality' and Strategic Creolization in Maxim Biller's WritingsThe Visuality of the Other: the Place of the Migrant between Derrida's Ethics and Rancière's Aesthetics in Calais: the Last Border; The Other's Intrusion: Claire Denis' L'intrus; Reframing the Migratory; Looking Again at Rupture: Crossing Borders, Family Pictures; A Place of Her Own: Negotiating Boundaries in Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place and My Garden (Book); Beyond Words: The Acoustics of Movement, Memory, and Loss in Three Video Works by Martina Attille, Mona Hatoum, and Tracey Moffatt, ca. 1989; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789401206068
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