Madeleine Dobie
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199554157
- eISBN:
- 9780191720437
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554157.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature, 18th-century Literature
Galland's translation of the Thousand and One Nights is usually viewed as a point of departure: for the oriental tale, for European orientalism, for the global as opposed to the Arabic history of the ...
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Galland's translation of the Thousand and One Nights is usually viewed as a point of departure: for the oriental tale, for European orientalism, for the global as opposed to the Arabic history of the Nights story. Galland is, however, better understood as a continuator, and his translation, and the corpus of retranslations, manuscript, and printed sources that followed it, seen as products of the interface between European/Romance and Arabic cultures. Scholars' failure to address adequately the trans- or inter-cultural status of the Nights reflects, at bottom, the epistemological difficulties attending the representation of cultural contact. Contact zones have predominantly been conceptualized in terms of geographical encounters or co-presences, yet they more often take the form of layered, discontinuous processes that are resistant to representation. Focusing on three different contexts: the translation's roots in Galland's scholarship and travels; the reception of the Nights in 18th-century France, and major contemporary critical readings, this chapter considers what is involved in viewing the Nights as products of cultural encounter.Less
Galland's translation of the Thousand and One Nights is usually viewed as a point of departure: for the oriental tale, for European orientalism, for the global as opposed to the Arabic history of the Nights story. Galland is, however, better understood as a continuator, and his translation, and the corpus of retranslations, manuscript, and printed sources that followed it, seen as products of the interface between European/Romance and Arabic cultures. Scholars' failure to address adequately the trans- or inter-cultural status of the Nights reflects, at bottom, the epistemological difficulties attending the representation of cultural contact. Contact zones have predominantly been conceptualized in terms of geographical encounters or co-presences, yet they more often take the form of layered, discontinuous processes that are resistant to representation. Focusing on three different contexts: the translation's roots in Galland's scholarship and travels; the reception of the Nights in 18th-century France, and major contemporary critical readings, this chapter considers what is involved in viewing the Nights as products of cultural encounter.
Jaime Harker
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469643359
- eISBN:
- 9781469643373
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469643359.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter explores the spatial reimaginations of Southern lesbian feminists, from communes to queer contact zones. This chapter uses geography to reassess the landyke movement and its role in ...
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This chapter explores the spatial reimaginations of Southern lesbian feminists, from communes to queer contact zones. This chapter uses geography to reassess the landyke movement and its role in lesbian feminism literature, which reimagines and queers space.Less
This chapter explores the spatial reimaginations of Southern lesbian feminists, from communes to queer contact zones. This chapter uses geography to reassess the landyke movement and its role in lesbian feminism literature, which reimagines and queers space.
Dúnlaith Bird
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199644162
- eISBN:
- 9780199949984
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644162.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
Having considered the theorisation of performativity by Judith Butler and Mary Louise Pratt, this chapter uses theatrical performances both in the fictional writing of Colette and Rachilde and in the ...
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Having considered the theorisation of performativity by Judith Butler and Mary Louise Pratt, this chapter uses theatrical performances both in the fictional writing of Colette and Rachilde and in the travelogues of Isabelle Eberhardt to demonstrate how performance and performativity intertwine in the disorderly motion of vagabondage. The second section examines the Orient as a staging space for female movement, where a potent form of gender proxemics comes into play between the body of the woman travel writer and her Oriental subjects. The travelogue becomes a location of misfiring gender constructions, temporary contact zones and dramatic destruction. Finally, the chapter explores the disconcerting effects produced when textuality and the female body in motion collide in vagabondage travelogues.Less
Having considered the theorisation of performativity by Judith Butler and Mary Louise Pratt, this chapter uses theatrical performances both in the fictional writing of Colette and Rachilde and in the travelogues of Isabelle Eberhardt to demonstrate how performance and performativity intertwine in the disorderly motion of vagabondage. The second section examines the Orient as a staging space for female movement, where a potent form of gender proxemics comes into play between the body of the woman travel writer and her Oriental subjects. The travelogue becomes a location of misfiring gender constructions, temporary contact zones and dramatic destruction. Finally, the chapter explores the disconcerting effects produced when textuality and the female body in motion collide in vagabondage travelogues.
Manuel Barcia
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780300215854
- eISBN:
- 9780300252019
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300215854.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter grapples with a number of issues associated with how diseases associated with the slave trade were perceived across the Atlantic world, and what ideas and methods were advised and ...
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This chapter grapples with a number of issues associated with how diseases associated with the slave trade were perceived across the Atlantic world, and what ideas and methods were advised and devised to prevent their arrival and dissemination. It does so by focusing first on the ways in which authorities and individuals attempted to sanitize ecosystems, in order to reduce the threat that so-called pestilential environments, and second on their need to regulate human behavior so as to prevent the spread of these diseases. It also emphasizes that the decisions and policies featured throughout this chapter were influenced by discussions that took place all over the Atlantic world and beyond during the period.Less
This chapter grapples with a number of issues associated with how diseases associated with the slave trade were perceived across the Atlantic world, and what ideas and methods were advised and devised to prevent their arrival and dissemination. It does so by focusing first on the ways in which authorities and individuals attempted to sanitize ecosystems, in order to reduce the threat that so-called pestilential environments, and second on their need to regulate human behavior so as to prevent the spread of these diseases. It also emphasizes that the decisions and policies featured throughout this chapter were influenced by discussions that took place all over the Atlantic world and beyond during the period.
Julia Kuehn
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099456
- eISBN:
- 9789882206687
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099456.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Transnation and translation refer to the “transnation zone” and the “translation zone.” These terms are loosely based on Mary Louise Pratt's “contact zone.” A term like “transculturation zone,” if in ...
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Transnation and translation refer to the “transnation zone” and the “translation zone.” These terms are loosely based on Mary Louise Pratt's “contact zone.” A term like “transculturation zone,” if in existence, would be preferable, as “transculturation” has been put to more convincing critical usage in debates outside colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory. In the area of translation, Emily Apter coined the term “translation zone.” This chapter can be understood as both a supplement to and translation of the introduction, providing through the methodology of the transnation and translation the “excess seeing” that the complex China Abroad thematic requires, and that can only be achieved by providing a multiplicity of approaches which include diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism.Less
Transnation and translation refer to the “transnation zone” and the “translation zone.” These terms are loosely based on Mary Louise Pratt's “contact zone.” A term like “transculturation zone,” if in existence, would be preferable, as “transculturation” has been put to more convincing critical usage in debates outside colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory. In the area of translation, Emily Apter coined the term “translation zone.” This chapter can be understood as both a supplement to and translation of the introduction, providing through the methodology of the transnation and translation the “excess seeing” that the complex China Abroad thematic requires, and that can only be achieved by providing a multiplicity of approaches which include diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism.
David A. Davis (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496815415
- eISBN:
- 9781496815453
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496815415.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
Contact between southerners and non-southerners during World War I was one of the crucial processes that led to the development of distal modernism by southern writers. This chapter describes the ...
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Contact between southerners and non-southerners during World War I was one of the crucial processes that led to the development of distal modernism by southern writers. This chapter describes the dynamics of contact during the war as a foreign conflict initiated a rapid sequence of domestic exchange and analyses the ways that interregional contact affected how writers represented the South. Interregional contact affected how writers from outside the South portrayed southerners, as illustrated in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos, and as William Faulkner’s first novel Soldiers’ Pay demonstrates, it changed the way southerners imagined the South. Over the course of decades, Allen Tate developed a theory of how World War I affected southern writing, and his extended thought process is both an explanation of and an example of the impact of interregional contact on southern modernism.Less
Contact between southerners and non-southerners during World War I was one of the crucial processes that led to the development of distal modernism by southern writers. This chapter describes the dynamics of contact during the war as a foreign conflict initiated a rapid sequence of domestic exchange and analyses the ways that interregional contact affected how writers represented the South. Interregional contact affected how writers from outside the South portrayed southerners, as illustrated in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos, and as William Faulkner’s first novel Soldiers’ Pay demonstrates, it changed the way southerners imagined the South. Over the course of decades, Allen Tate developed a theory of how World War I affected southern writing, and his extended thought process is both an explanation of and an example of the impact of interregional contact on southern modernism.
Donna J. Haraway
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262042499
- eISBN:
- 9780262271127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262042499.003.0026
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter considers the question of how dogs and people learn to pay attention to each other in a way that changes who and what they become together, and presents an analytical framework of the ...
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This chapter considers the question of how dogs and people learn to pay attention to each other in a way that changes who and what they become together, and presents an analytical framework of the “contact zone” inhabited by the author and her dog, Cayenne, an Australian shepherd. It addresses questions of power, knowledge, and technique in this human–animal contact zone. The chapter describes the process of becoming at ease to occupy the “natural-cultural art of training for a sport with a dog,” and revisits aspects of behaviorism the author previously rejected.Less
This chapter considers the question of how dogs and people learn to pay attention to each other in a way that changes who and what they become together, and presents an analytical framework of the “contact zone” inhabited by the author and her dog, Cayenne, an Australian shepherd. It addresses questions of power, knowledge, and technique in this human–animal contact zone. The chapter describes the process of becoming at ease to occupy the “natural-cultural art of training for a sport with a dog,” and revisits aspects of behaviorism the author previously rejected.
Magdalena Waligórska
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199995790
- eISBN:
- 9780199346424
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199995790.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter introduces the framework of cultural translation and cultural anthropophagy (de Andrade) as a counter-paradigm to the framework of appropriation presented in the previous chapters. It ...
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This chapter introduces the framework of cultural translation and cultural anthropophagy (de Andrade) as a counter-paradigm to the framework of appropriation presented in the previous chapters. It develops the claim that klezmer, as a lay, accessible and easily enjoyable medium, is one of the most intensive “Jewish Spaces” (Pinto) or Jewish/non-Jewish “contact zones” (Pratt) in Europe, providing a space where Jews and non-Jews have the chance to meet, but also where non-Jews can live out their interest in Jewish issues. This unique contact zone is marked by both “meeting” and “eating.” That is, it enables, on the one hand, dialogue, learning and communication, and, on the other, consumption, commercialization and appropriation of elements of the culture of the other in the process of defining the self. Taking this dual nature of the phenomenon into consideration, the chapter also deals with the relations between the klezmer scene and local Jewish communities in the context of the commercial success of klezmer.Less
This chapter introduces the framework of cultural translation and cultural anthropophagy (de Andrade) as a counter-paradigm to the framework of appropriation presented in the previous chapters. It develops the claim that klezmer, as a lay, accessible and easily enjoyable medium, is one of the most intensive “Jewish Spaces” (Pinto) or Jewish/non-Jewish “contact zones” (Pratt) in Europe, providing a space where Jews and non-Jews have the chance to meet, but also where non-Jews can live out their interest in Jewish issues. This unique contact zone is marked by both “meeting” and “eating.” That is, it enables, on the one hand, dialogue, learning and communication, and, on the other, consumption, commercialization and appropriation of elements of the culture of the other in the process of defining the self. Taking this dual nature of the phenomenon into consideration, the chapter also deals with the relations between the klezmer scene and local Jewish communities in the context of the commercial success of klezmer.
Sara Mills
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719053351
- eISBN:
- 9781781702284
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719053351.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This introductory chapter discusses the process by which spatial relations are considered classed, raced and gendered within the imperial and colonial contexts. It notes that the focus of the study ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the process by which spatial relations are considered classed, raced and gendered within the imperial and colonial contexts. It notes that the focus of the study is on the period of ‘high’ British colonialism during the last few years of the nineteenth century. It considers the question of spatiality and explains how the book—and the study—developed. It examines post-colonial theory, this book's theoretical position, and the concepts of space and spatial relations. This chapter also identifies the different levels of colonial space and discusses the public and private spheres, the contact zone, the sexualisation of space, and gender and space.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the process by which spatial relations are considered classed, raced and gendered within the imperial and colonial contexts. It notes that the focus of the study is on the period of ‘high’ British colonialism during the last few years of the nineteenth century. It considers the question of spatiality and explains how the book—and the study—developed. It examines post-colonial theory, this book's theoretical position, and the concepts of space and spatial relations. This chapter also identifies the different levels of colonial space and discusses the public and private spheres, the contact zone, the sexualisation of space, and gender and space.
John Clarke, Dave Bainton, Noémi Lendvai, and Paul Stubbs
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781447313366
- eISBN:
- 9781447313410
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447313366.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
Responding to the increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of policy ...
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Responding to the increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of policy transfer, dissemination or learning. Written by the key people in the field, it argues that treating policy as an active process of ‘translation’, in which policies are interpreted, inflected and re-worked as they change location, is of critical importance for studying policy. The book provides an exciting and accessible analytical and methodological foundation for studying policy in this way and will be a valuable resource for those studying policy processes at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Mixing collectively written chapters with individual case studies of policies and practices, the book provides a powerful and productive introduction to rethinking policy studies. It ends with a commitment to the possibilities of thinking and doing ‘policy otherwise’.Less
Responding to the increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of policy transfer, dissemination or learning. Written by the key people in the field, it argues that treating policy as an active process of ‘translation’, in which policies are interpreted, inflected and re-worked as they change location, is of critical importance for studying policy. The book provides an exciting and accessible analytical and methodological foundation for studying policy in this way and will be a valuable resource for those studying policy processes at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Mixing collectively written chapters with individual case studies of policies and practices, the book provides a powerful and productive introduction to rethinking policy studies. It ends with a commitment to the possibilities of thinking and doing ‘policy otherwise’.
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781789621778
- eISBN:
- 9781800341463
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789621778.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Hester Stanhope rethought tenets of Enlightenment and Sensibility that defined women at the mercy of biologically sexed bodies. Expected to marry for money and status, she left England to live ...
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Hester Stanhope rethought tenets of Enlightenment and Sensibility that defined women at the mercy of biologically sexed bodies. Expected to marry for money and status, she left England to live independently in the Middle East, assuming agency in Syria as a warrior, tourist attraction, politician, and anchorite sibyl. She cross-dressed as a Turk and a Bedouin man, influenced Ottoman and tribal politics, took lovers, ruled the Syrians in her territory, accessed both male and female worlds, and enjoyed a liberty forbidden to women on British and Syrian grounds. Stanhope’s fluidity is apparent in multiple sources: accounts of travelers who visited her, her own letters, and the Memoirs of her physician Charles Meryon, wherein he quotes her correspondence (censored) and her conversations with him and others. Each genre—the letter, the memoir, and the travel account—creates a heroic persona for her. Two other phenomena add to these metafictional complexities: first, the competition between Stanhope’s and Meryon’s stories, and second, the filters of gender and class prejudice through which he views Stanhope. Such indeterminacy invites the question of how she both is and is not a speaking subject and of how these representations limit our interpretations of her and her actions.Less
Hester Stanhope rethought tenets of Enlightenment and Sensibility that defined women at the mercy of biologically sexed bodies. Expected to marry for money and status, she left England to live independently in the Middle East, assuming agency in Syria as a warrior, tourist attraction, politician, and anchorite sibyl. She cross-dressed as a Turk and a Bedouin man, influenced Ottoman and tribal politics, took lovers, ruled the Syrians in her territory, accessed both male and female worlds, and enjoyed a liberty forbidden to women on British and Syrian grounds. Stanhope’s fluidity is apparent in multiple sources: accounts of travelers who visited her, her own letters, and the Memoirs of her physician Charles Meryon, wherein he quotes her correspondence (censored) and her conversations with him and others. Each genre—the letter, the memoir, and the travel account—creates a heroic persona for her. Two other phenomena add to these metafictional complexities: first, the competition between Stanhope’s and Meryon’s stories, and second, the filters of gender and class prejudice through which he views Stanhope. Such indeterminacy invites the question of how she both is and is not a speaking subject and of how these representations limit our interpretations of her and her actions.
Manuel Barcia
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780300215854
- eISBN:
- 9780300252019
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300215854.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
The Yellow Demon of Fever unravels the story of the uninterrupted Atlantic struggle between humans and often terrifying and puzzling diseases, a struggle that generated a vast amount of information ...
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The Yellow Demon of Fever unravels the story of the uninterrupted Atlantic struggle between humans and often terrifying and puzzling diseases, a struggle that generated a vast amount of information at a time when transatlantic means of communication were significantly enhanced. It seeks to demonstrate that while the enforcement of abolitionist policies in the Atlantic contributed to the eventual ending of the transatlantic slave trade, it also led to an increase in the suffering of those who were enslaved and sent into the transatlantic slave trade.
The book also argues that slave traders’ worries about the health of their human cargoes, as well as anti–slave trade patrol officers’ concerns about the health of their prizes—both related to the maximization of profits—generated transatlantic discussions and dialogues about the diseases they encountered and the best ways to fight them.
The Yellow Demon of Fever exhaustively examines the personal experiences of ordinary Atlantic people who were daily exposed to deadly and debilitating diseases and illnesses, and who were forced to resist and fight them as best they could, often sharing old and new knowledge on the characteristics of these deadly enemies and on how to confront them. Ultimately, it argues that the ways in which these historical actors dealt with and fought against a bewildering array of diseases were central elements in the transformations of medical cultures that took place in the illegal period throughout the Atlantic world.Less
The Yellow Demon of Fever unravels the story of the uninterrupted Atlantic struggle between humans and often terrifying and puzzling diseases, a struggle that generated a vast amount of information at a time when transatlantic means of communication were significantly enhanced. It seeks to demonstrate that while the enforcement of abolitionist policies in the Atlantic contributed to the eventual ending of the transatlantic slave trade, it also led to an increase in the suffering of those who were enslaved and sent into the transatlantic slave trade.
The book also argues that slave traders’ worries about the health of their human cargoes, as well as anti–slave trade patrol officers’ concerns about the health of their prizes—both related to the maximization of profits—generated transatlantic discussions and dialogues about the diseases they encountered and the best ways to fight them.
The Yellow Demon of Fever exhaustively examines the personal experiences of ordinary Atlantic people who were daily exposed to deadly and debilitating diseases and illnesses, and who were forced to resist and fight them as best they could, often sharing old and new knowledge on the characteristics of these deadly enemies and on how to confront them. Ultimately, it argues that the ways in which these historical actors dealt with and fought against a bewildering array of diseases were central elements in the transformations of medical cultures that took place in the illegal period throughout the Atlantic world.
Regina F. Bendix, Kilian Bizer, and Dorothy Noyes
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040894
- eISBN:
- 9780252099397
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040894.003.0002
- Subject:
- Education, Higher and Further Education
This chapter spells out the implications of prevailing metaphors for interdisciplinary process: the trading zone or contact zone, which generates pidgin languages; the gift exchange; the encounter of ...
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This chapter spells out the implications of prevailing metaphors for interdisciplinary process: the trading zone or contact zone, which generates pidgin languages; the gift exchange; the encounter of different communities of practice around a boundary object (the research topic), mediated by brokers. Inflected by academic hierarchies of prestige, each metaphor plays out differently in practice, offering a continuum of interactional intensity. The choice of a thinner or thicker mode of interdisciplinary encounter has implications for knowledge production, entailing tradeoffs between predictability and discovery, accountability and democratic participation.Less
This chapter spells out the implications of prevailing metaphors for interdisciplinary process: the trading zone or contact zone, which generates pidgin languages; the gift exchange; the encounter of different communities of practice around a boundary object (the research topic), mediated by brokers. Inflected by academic hierarchies of prestige, each metaphor plays out differently in practice, offering a continuum of interactional intensity. The choice of a thinner or thicker mode of interdisciplinary encounter has implications for knowledge production, entailing tradeoffs between predictability and discovery, accountability and democratic participation.
Alan Liu
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226451817
- eISBN:
- 9780226452005
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226452005.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter studies "narratives of new media encounter" (accounts of how individuals and societies react to the introduction of writing, radio, television, the internet, Web 2.0, and so on) to ...
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This chapter studies "narratives of new media encounter" (accounts of how individuals and societies react to the introduction of writing, radio, television, the internet, Web 2.0, and so on) to suggest that major historical changes in the sociocultural order are mirrored in narratives of media history. Often, as in the case of Marshall McLuhan's writings, such narratives follow a plot of progressivist media determinism—of necessary change from old media to new media—even as they also reveal the more ambivalent experience of a "contact zone" between civilizations. At once descriptive and interpretive, tales of new media encounter are a foundational form of media theory—a kind of media archaeology of media theory. They show how societies experience history as communication and information media, and communication and information media as history. They register the experience of history as media history. Finishing on the promising example of a recent collection of essays on the digital humanities, the chapter concludes by asking the critical question: what is an imaginatively enriching, rather than deterministic constraining, narrative of new media encounter?Less
This chapter studies "narratives of new media encounter" (accounts of how individuals and societies react to the introduction of writing, radio, television, the internet, Web 2.0, and so on) to suggest that major historical changes in the sociocultural order are mirrored in narratives of media history. Often, as in the case of Marshall McLuhan's writings, such narratives follow a plot of progressivist media determinism—of necessary change from old media to new media—even as they also reveal the more ambivalent experience of a "contact zone" between civilizations. At once descriptive and interpretive, tales of new media encounter are a foundational form of media theory—a kind of media archaeology of media theory. They show how societies experience history as communication and information media, and communication and information media as history. They register the experience of history as media history. Finishing on the promising example of a recent collection of essays on the digital humanities, the chapter concludes by asking the critical question: what is an imaginatively enriching, rather than deterministic constraining, narrative of new media encounter?
Rupendra Kumar Chattopadhyay
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780199481682
- eISBN:
- 9780199091027
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199481682.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter is not merely a summary or recapitulation of the vast archaeological data that has been utilized to reconstruct the settlement dynamics of coastal Bengal. Rather, it raises various ...
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This chapter is not merely a summary or recapitulation of the vast archaeological data that has been utilized to reconstruct the settlement dynamics of coastal Bengal. Rather, it raises various relevant issues that are connected with the mentioned reconstruction and, above all, discusses the unresolved questions pertaining to various aspects of coastal life including culture, religion, and the trading and maritime network. While reconstructing the mechanism of contact between the hinterland and the littoral an attempt has been made by the author to explore the possibility of at least three ‘contact zones’ that were crucial in formulating not only a cultural whole but also the monitoring agencies behind this reciprocation. The involvement of religious ideologies particularly Buddhism also received special attention towards the involvement of the major and minor centres connecting the development of the Ganga valley, the Chittagong and Myanmar coast and that of the rest of Southeast Asia and obviously the participation of Buddhist establishments in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. The Epilogue concludes by tracing a long chrono-cultural sequence of coastal Bengal from the BRW-associated early village farming cultural phases to the 12th–13th centuries CE. The imagery of a greater cultural orbit has been adhered to in this concluding chapter.Less
This chapter is not merely a summary or recapitulation of the vast archaeological data that has been utilized to reconstruct the settlement dynamics of coastal Bengal. Rather, it raises various relevant issues that are connected with the mentioned reconstruction and, above all, discusses the unresolved questions pertaining to various aspects of coastal life including culture, religion, and the trading and maritime network. While reconstructing the mechanism of contact between the hinterland and the littoral an attempt has been made by the author to explore the possibility of at least three ‘contact zones’ that were crucial in formulating not only a cultural whole but also the monitoring agencies behind this reciprocation. The involvement of religious ideologies particularly Buddhism also received special attention towards the involvement of the major and minor centres connecting the development of the Ganga valley, the Chittagong and Myanmar coast and that of the rest of Southeast Asia and obviously the participation of Buddhist establishments in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. The Epilogue concludes by tracing a long chrono-cultural sequence of coastal Bengal from the BRW-associated early village farming cultural phases to the 12th–13th centuries CE. The imagery of a greater cultural orbit has been adhered to in this concluding chapter.
Manuel Barcia
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780300215854
- eISBN:
- 9780300252019
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300215854.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter focuses on the ways in which slave traders throughout the Atlantic world understood and fought against the diseases that affected them and their human cargoes. It does so by illustrating ...
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This chapter focuses on the ways in which slave traders throughout the Atlantic world understood and fought against the diseases that affected them and their human cargoes. It does so by illustrating the risks associated with slave trading expeditions and with the residence in African towns and factories. It also discusses to what extent their understanding and treatment of these diseases were similar to those of the medical officers who confronted them while attempting to stop them. Ultimately, the chapter concludes that slave traders and their accomplices had access to state-of-the-art therapies and to new medicines, just as much as their nemesis in the anti–slave trade patrols did.Less
This chapter focuses on the ways in which slave traders throughout the Atlantic world understood and fought against the diseases that affected them and their human cargoes. It does so by illustrating the risks associated with slave trading expeditions and with the residence in African towns and factories. It also discusses to what extent their understanding and treatment of these diseases were similar to those of the medical officers who confronted them while attempting to stop them. Ultimately, the chapter concludes that slave traders and their accomplices had access to state-of-the-art therapies and to new medicines, just as much as their nemesis in the anti–slave trade patrols did.
Manuel Barcia
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780300215854
- eISBN:
- 9780300252019
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300215854.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter examines the exchanges and debates that occurred throughout the Atlantic, revealing how knowledge related to diseases and their cures was created and disseminated by a varied number of ...
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This chapter examines the exchanges and debates that occurred throughout the Atlantic, revealing how knowledge related to diseases and their cures was created and disseminated by a varied number of historical actors associated with the slave trade and its abolition. The chapter question the ways in which helped disseminating new knowledge and changing medical cultures in the Atlantic world and beyond.Less
This chapter examines the exchanges and debates that occurred throughout the Atlantic, revealing how knowledge related to diseases and their cures was created and disseminated by a varied number of historical actors associated with the slave trade and its abolition. The chapter question the ways in which helped disseminating new knowledge and changing medical cultures in the Atlantic world and beyond.
Jessica Howell
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748692958
- eISBN:
- 9781474400824
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748692958.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
The Introduction outlines cross-pollinations between Victorian travel writing to Africa and the Caribbean and nineteenth century medical discourse. Specifically, it argues that works by Mary Seacole, ...
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The Introduction outlines cross-pollinations between Victorian travel writing to Africa and the Caribbean and nineteenth century medical discourse. Specifically, it argues that works by Mary Seacole, Richard Burton, Africanus Horton, Mary Kingsley and Joseph Conrad may productively be read as early forms of illness narrative within a colonial context. The authors under study all depict travel within the ‘contact zones’ of climate as dangerous to white subjects. The Introduction outlines both the aesthetics and political impact of these foreboding representations of the colonial tropics. It concludes that writers privileged images of the ‘fatal climate’ over images of contagion because narratives of illness from the environment enhance the observer’s authority regarding local conditions.Less
The Introduction outlines cross-pollinations between Victorian travel writing to Africa and the Caribbean and nineteenth century medical discourse. Specifically, it argues that works by Mary Seacole, Richard Burton, Africanus Horton, Mary Kingsley and Joseph Conrad may productively be read as early forms of illness narrative within a colonial context. The authors under study all depict travel within the ‘contact zones’ of climate as dangerous to white subjects. The Introduction outlines both the aesthetics and political impact of these foreboding representations of the colonial tropics. It concludes that writers privileged images of the ‘fatal climate’ over images of contagion because narratives of illness from the environment enhance the observer’s authority regarding local conditions.
Steven Feld and Virginia Ryan
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719085055
- eISBN:
- 9781526109958
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719085055.003.0009
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Steven Feld and Virginia Ryan’s sound and visual art collaboration is a meditation on the forced movements, departures and returns of people and things as part of the slave trade and its legacy, ...
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Steven Feld and Virginia Ryan’s sound and visual art collaboration is a meditation on the forced movements, departures and returns of people and things as part of the slave trade and its legacy, evoked through a linked composition of the sonic materials found along the space of Ghanaian shoreline at Accra, at Pram Pram, Jamestown, Labadi, Anomabo, and Korlegonno. Their joint exhibition of sculptural paintings and ambient sound composition refigures the West African beach as a contact zone, as interacting ocean currents of natural and human-made materials referencing gold, slavery, displacements, forced motion, departure and return.Less
Steven Feld and Virginia Ryan’s sound and visual art collaboration is a meditation on the forced movements, departures and returns of people and things as part of the slave trade and its legacy, evoked through a linked composition of the sonic materials found along the space of Ghanaian shoreline at Accra, at Pram Pram, Jamestown, Labadi, Anomabo, and Korlegonno. Their joint exhibition of sculptural paintings and ambient sound composition refigures the West African beach as a contact zone, as interacting ocean currents of natural and human-made materials referencing gold, slavery, displacements, forced motion, departure and return.
Tansen Sen
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190129118
- eISBN:
- 9780190992132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190129118.003.0015
- Subject:
- Political Science, Indian Politics, Asian Politics
This chapter focuses on Kalimpong, a small Himalayan town located in northern West Bengal, India. In the mid-1940s, the British intelligence officials in India identified trade through Kalimpong into ...
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This chapter focuses on Kalimpong, a small Himalayan town located in northern West Bengal, India. In the mid-1940s, the British intelligence officials in India identified trade through Kalimpong into Tibet as an activity that required surveillance and inspection. These officials produced detailed records on the types of commodity traded, volume of trade, diverse groups traders, and smuggling of goods. Such surveillance and intelligence gathering continued after the establishment of independent India in 1947. The intelligence officials paid special attention to individuals in Kalimpong suspected as spies for the Chinese government, both the Kuomintang and the People’s Republic of China. Using these intelligence records, the chapter analyses the portrayal of Kalimpong as a site of covert and clandestine activity. It spotlights several individuals who were identified as ‘Chinese agents’, the complicated and problematic nature of intelligence gathering and recording, the arbitrariness of the categories ‘Chinese’, ‘Tibetan’, and ‘Indian’ in a place such as Kalimpong, and the ways in which the changing geopolitical relationship between India and China in the late 1950s impacted Kalimpong and its Chinese residents.Less
This chapter focuses on Kalimpong, a small Himalayan town located in northern West Bengal, India. In the mid-1940s, the British intelligence officials in India identified trade through Kalimpong into Tibet as an activity that required surveillance and inspection. These officials produced detailed records on the types of commodity traded, volume of trade, diverse groups traders, and smuggling of goods. Such surveillance and intelligence gathering continued after the establishment of independent India in 1947. The intelligence officials paid special attention to individuals in Kalimpong suspected as spies for the Chinese government, both the Kuomintang and the People’s Republic of China. Using these intelligence records, the chapter analyses the portrayal of Kalimpong as a site of covert and clandestine activity. It spotlights several individuals who were identified as ‘Chinese agents’, the complicated and problematic nature of intelligence gathering and recording, the arbitrariness of the categories ‘Chinese’, ‘Tibetan’, and ‘Indian’ in a place such as Kalimpong, and the ways in which the changing geopolitical relationship between India and China in the late 1950s impacted Kalimpong and its Chinese residents.
