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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.
New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for
the scholar and the general reader. J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the
most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction
writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to have been awarded two
BookerPrizes. The present volume makes critical views of this
important writer accessible to the general reader as well as the
scholar, discussing Coetzee's main works in chronological order and
introducing the dominant themes in the academic discussion of his
oeuvre. The volume highlights Coetzee's exceptionally nuanced
approach to writing as both an exacting craft and a challenging
moral-ethical undertaking. It discusses Coetzee's complex relation
to apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, the land of his
birth, and evaluates his complicated responses to the literary
canon. Coetzee emerges as both a modernist and a highly self-aware
postmodernist - a champion of the truths of aliterary enterprise
conducted unrelentingly in the mode of self-confession.
Contributors: Chris Ackerley, Derek Attridge, Carrol Clarkson,
Simone Drichel, Johan Geertsema, David James, Michelle Kelly, Sue
Kossew, MikeMarais, James Meffan, Tim Mehigan, Chris Prentice,
Engelhard Weigl, Kim L. Worthington. Tim Mehigan is Professor of
Languages in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the
University of Otago, New Zealand and Honorary Professor in the
Department of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the
University of Queensland, Australia.
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