55 research outputs found
Global Photographies: Memory - History - Archives
No full textHow is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial, anthropological and family photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of global photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs
And She Wrote Backwards: Same-Sex Love, Gender and Identity in Shani Mootoo’s work and her recent Valmiki’s Daughter
No full textThis article traces the representation of love, gender and national
identity in Shani Mootoo’s creative work in general and her most recent
novel Valmiki’s Daughter (2008) in particular. In all her work, Mootoo
describes the phenomenon of otherness as a part of the negotiating
process of the protagonists' selves.Challenging xenophobia, homophobia
and all forms of prejudices the author works with the concept of lesbian
and bisexual love, cross-racial relationships in order to write identity
and to create a home
From the Belly of the Fish: Jewish Writers in English in Israel: Transcultural Perspectives
No full textAnd She Wrote Backwards: Same-Sex Love, Gender and Identity in Shani Mootoo’s work and her recent Valmiki’s Daughter
No full textThis article traces the representation of love, gender and national identity in Shani Mootoo’s creative work in general and her most recent novel Valmiki’s Daughter (2008) in particular. In all her work, Mootoo describes the phenomenon of otherness as a part of the negotiating process of the protagonists' selves.Challenging xenophobia, homophobia and all forms of prejudices the author works with the concept of lesbian and bisexual love, cross-racial relationships in order to write identity and to create a home
Global Photographies
No full textHow is photography connected to global practices? This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial and anthropological photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of (post-)colonial photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs
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