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Hybridity : forms and figures in literature and the visual arts
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ISBN: 1283435993 9786613435996 1443833967 9781443833967 9781283435994 9781443833462 1443833460 Year: 2011 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,

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Over the last two decades, the unstable notion of hybridity has been the focus of a number of debates in cultural and literary studies, and has been discussed in connection Other such notions as métissage, creolization, syncretism, diaspora, transculturation and in-betweeness. The aim of this volume is to form a critical assessment of the scope, significance and role of the notion in literature and the visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present day. The contributors propose to exam...


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Hybrid culture : Japanese media arts in dialogue with the West
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ISBN: 1283870134 0262305836 0262304902 9780262018371 0262018373 9781283870139 9780262305839 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press,

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An exploration of the tensions between East and West and digital and analog in Japanese new-media art. This book grew out of Yvonne Spielmann's 2005-2006 and 2009 visits to Japan, where she explored the technological and aesthetic origins of Japanese new-media art--which was known for pioneering interactive and virtual media applications in the 1990's. Spielmann discovered an essential hybridity in Japan's media culture: an internal hybridity, a mixture of digital-analog connections together with a non-Western development of modernity separate from but not immune to Western media aesthetics; and external hybridity, produced by the international, transcultural travel of aesthetic concepts. Spielmann describes the innovative technology context in Japan, in which developers, engineers, and artists collaborate, and traces the Japanese fondness for precision and functionality to the poetics of unobtrusiveness and detail. She examines work by artists including Masaki Fujihata, whose art is both formally and thematically hybrid; Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa, who build special devices for a new sense of human-machine interaction; Toshio Iwai, who connects traditional media forms with computing; and Tatsuo Miyajima, who anchors his LED artwork in Buddhist philosophy. Spielmann views hybridity as a positive aesthetic value--perhaps the defining aesthetic of a global culture. Hybridity offers a conceptual approach for considering the ambivalent linkages of contradictory elements; its dynamic and fluid characteristics are neither conclusive nor categorical but are meant to stimulate fusions.


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The untranslatable image : a mestizo history of the arts in new Spain, 1500-1600
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ISBN: 9780292754133 9780292754140 Year: 2014 Volume: *3 Publisher: Austin University of Texas Press


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The Cultural Net : Early Modern Drama as a Paradigm
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ISBN: 3110536633 3110536382 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin, Germany De Gruyter

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This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual network. Following a thorough outline of this approach, the theoretical framework is elucidated in a second part through examples drawn from early modern European drama. A third and final part then presents a critical discussion of the concept of "national" culture and literature, from its first formulation by Johann Gottfried Herder to its current developments, including postcolonial studies.


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Mami Wata : arts for water spirits in Africa and its diasporas
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ISBN: 9780974872995 Year: 2008 Publisher: Los Angeles : Fowler Museum at UCLA,


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The international journal of critical cultural studies.
ISSN: 23272376 Year: 2013 Publisher: Champaign, Illinois, USA : Common Ground Publishing,


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Yemoja : gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas
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ISBN: 1461951380 1438448015 143844799X 1438448007 9781461951384 9781438448015 9781438447995 9781438448008 Year: 2013 Publisher: Albany : SUNY Press,

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Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

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