It's All About the Cow McKinley, Catherine E
The Virginia quarterly review,
07/2013, Letnik:
89, Številka:
3
Journal Article
McKinley offers her extensive knowledge of African tribal dress and modern fashion in Namibia. In doing so, she presents a revealing look at Namibian women, cultural appropriation and the legacy of ...European colonialism.
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BFBNIB, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NMLJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
In March of 1975, perhaps four or five of us students from U Wisconsin- Madison climbed into a station wagon, rented for us from the UW car pool by the Department of African Languages and ...Literatures, and traveled south toward the sun in Austin, Texas. Dorothy Blair, the well-known translator and scholar of French-language African texts, asked KofiAwoonor, in an echo of Saul Bellow, a question revealing not only the dominant Eurocentrism in scholarly paradigms but a critical misunderstanding of literature as a social act arising in specific contexts, notably in this instance, closed colonial situations, as Zeke Mphalele would say elsewhere, without possibilities. Romanus Ngudu offered a perceptive comment, which I now see as tied to my future book, African Novels and the Question of Orality, and to a number of articles by Karin Barber. Most of its esthetic qualities derive from the fact that it is a literature meant to be performed spoken, and sung" (10) To Sandy Lepouche's prophetic challenging of the relevance and efficacy of the nation state in Africa, "there will be great problems for all in Africa today who believe that it's important to have a strong nation-state and who also want to maintain their oral traditions and encourage a flowering of literature," Ama Ata Aidoo nonetheless offered this equally thoughtful and fervent reply, "the desire of African countries to become states or nations, or in fact one nation, is an imperative that we have to obey.
...the examination of stories from No Sweetness Here, her play Anowa and her second novel Changes will interrogate the paradoxical outcomes that lay at the heart of all Aidoo's works because the ...women protagonists' response to patriarchy, urbanization, and conflicting demands of modernity catapult them into dichotomous terrain fraught with confused identities and outright contradictions. While she rails against her sisters' immorality, the security and sanctity of her own marital status is challenged as she remains powerless against her husband's infidelity. ...tensions between tradition and modernity may create discord and imbalance that women may not escape in clear terms. ...as much head! "(90). ...Anowa conveys a scathing indictment of Africa's participation in the slave trade when the tragic heroine clashes with her husband repeatedly over Iiis involvement in selling their African brothers and sisters. Anowa voices her alienation to Kofi when she says of herself: A wayfarer is a traveler. ...to call someone a wayfarer is a painless way of saying he does not belong. According to Maria Olaussen, Changes is "not primarily concerned with depicting suffering of the good wife within a dysfunctional marriage but with analyzing the possibilities of female subjugation in modern urban society" (168).
When Jane Gloriana Villanueva becomes a "published freaking author" on the award-winning telenovela spoof Jane the Virgin,1 the fictional character's debut romance novel, Snow Falling, became ...available for purchase in real bookstores across the United States ("Chapter Seventy").2 That the work of a fictional Latina from a fringe television network-even the characters mock The CW's obscurity in one of the show's many meta moments-can appear on the pages of a book by a major New York publishing house3 speaks to what critics have deemed the "mainstreaming" of Latinx literature in the US literary market. Snow Falling, then, emerges as a continuation of the hemispherically American corpus that Jane consumes, and as a mass-market literary genre with a lusty cover featuring the authors multisyllabic, bilingual name, it claims its place in the mainstream in a most obtrusive fashion. ...the books that Allende chooses for Jane may be commercially successful, but when she categorizes them as part of a "Latin American literary tradition," she invokes what Frances Aparicio has called the transgressive potential of Latinx literature to destabilize "the privileged place of the Hispanic literary canon" ("Chapter Seventy"; Aparicio 8). Jane's reading, then, is profoundly transgressive in its remapping of literary geography for a mainstream audience: the show brings to life on primetime television what Latinx literary scholars have been doing for decades: it affirms a transamerican world region that calls attention to the limits of North/South scholarly divisions, thus critiquing the US American, Latinx, and Latin American traditions that would draw a line-a border-through her reading selections.
InThe Search for the Japanese Fleet, David W. Jourdan, one of the world's experts in undersea exploration, reconstructs the critical role one submarine played in the Battle of Midway, considered to ...be the turning point of the war in the Pacific. In the direct line of fire during this battle was one of the oldest boats in the navy, USSNautilus. The actions of Lt. Cdr. William Brockman and his ninety-three-man crew during an eight-hour period rank among the most important submarine contributions to the most decisive engagement in U.S. Navy history.
Fifty-seven years later, Jourdan's team of deep-sea explorers set out to discover the history of the Battle of Midway and find the ships that the Allied fleet sank. Key to the mystery wasNautilusand its underwater exploits. Relying on logs, diaries, chronologies, manuals, sound recordings, and interviews with veterans of the battle, including men who spent most of June 4, 1942, in the submarine conning tower, the story breathes new life into the history of this epic engagement. Woven into the tale of World War II is the modern drama of deep-sea discovery, as explorers deploy new technology three miles beneath the ocean surface to uncover history and commemorate fallen heroes.
Over the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b. 1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred interviews. This collection features the best of these, ...focusing on all the major films, fromSigns of LifeandAguirre, the Wrath of God to Grizzly ManandCave of Forgotten Dreams.When did Herzog decide to become a filmmaker? Who are his key influences? Where does he find his peculiar themes and characters? What role does music play in his films? How does he see himself in relation to the German past and in relation to film history? And how did he ever survive the wrath of Klaus Kinski? Herzog answers these and many other questions in twenty-five interviews ranging from the 1960s to the present.
Critics and fans recognized Herzog's importance as a young German filmmaker early on, but his films have attained international significance over the decades. Most of the interviews collected in this volume--some of them from Herzog's production archive and previously unpublished--appear in English for the very first time. Together, they offer an unprecedented look at Herzog's work, his career, and his public persona as it has developed and changed over time.
Essential for students of theatre studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. Each volume ...features a critical analysis of the work of four key playwrights from that decade, together with an extensive commentary on the period.
