ISBN:
9789042030046
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (383 pages)
Series Statement:
Cross/Cultures Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.09
Keywords:
Culture conflict
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Culture conflict
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 stu.
Abstract:
Intro -- Cultural Transformations: Perspectives on Translocation in a Global Age -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART 1: TEXTUAL TRANSLOCATIONS -- Earth, World, Planet: Where Does the Postcolonial Literary Critic Stand? -- Affirming Diasporas as National Antinomies -- Australian Infernos: Janette Turner Hospital's Translation of Dante's Hell into Contemporary Australia -- Between Mother Tongue, Grandfather Tongue and Foreign Tongue: A Turk in Translation -- A Poetics of Translocation: Yang Lian's Auckland and Lyn Hejinian's Leningrad -- PART 2: MUSICAL TRANSLOCATIONS -- Fusión Rapa Nui: Mito Manutomatoma and the Translocation of Easter Island Music in Chilean Popular Culture -- Interactive Environments and the Context of Heritage: Culturally Engaged Research and Facilitation in Small-Island Societies -- Constructing an 'Other' from Your 'Own': Localizing, Nationalizing, and Globalizing Nēnēzu (Nenes) -- PART 3: VISUAL TRANSLOCATIONS -- Rejecting Words: Illiteracy, Silence, and the Visual -- Integral Culture: Agora-Phobia at the Polynesian Cultural Centre -- The Kumars at No. 42: The Dynamics of Hyphenation, or Did Sanjeev Take Parkie Down? -- Transl(oc)ating the Player: Are Some Computer- and Video-Game Players Also Unpaid Workers in the Information Economy? -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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