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Author:   Chris Prentice ,  Vijay Devadas ,  Henry Johnson
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   125
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.753kg
ISBN:  

9789042030039

ISBN 10:   9042030038
Pages:   347
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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: Fusion 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

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Cultural Transformations brings together twelve sharply-argued essays on a wide range of topics. - Imre Szeman, University of Alberta

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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.

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