Situated in Translations

Cultural Communities and Media Practices

Cultural communities are shaped and produced by ongoing processes of translation understood as aesthetic media practices – such is the premise of this volume. Taking on perspectives from cultural, literary and media studies as well as postcolonial theory, the chapters shed light on composite cultural and heterotypical translation processes across various media, such as texts, films, graphic novels, theater and dance performances. Thus, the authors explore the cultural contexts of diverse media milieus in order to explain how cultural communities come into being.

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15. April 2019, 234 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4343-5

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Michaela Ott

Michaela Ott, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Deutschland

Thomas Weber

Thomas Weber, Universität Hamburg, Deutschland

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1. Why did You choose this topic?

Our book is the outcome of a scientific research project called ›Translating and Framing‹ at the University of Hamburg/ the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg. This research project made use of different academic approaches and focussed on various medial transformations. Taking as our starting point the insight that culture is always already situated and brings about different cultural communities according to their media practices, we chose the title »Situated in translations. Cultural communities and media practices«.

2. What new perspectives does your book offer?

The aim of our contributions is to gauge the scope of existing translation theories for an expanded media studies, combining research on the arts, media and cultural as well as performance studies. We are especially interested in a broad range of media including the body and its movement, voice, literature, film, and graphic novels. And we also ask: Are there other, non-Western or unseen and unheard ways of translating whose cultural communities we overlook due to our standardised perspectives?

3. What makes your topic relevant for current research debates?

Our topic is relevant for current scientific research debates not only because it widens the concept of translation and cultural situatedness and applies them to different media practices, but because it also includes reflections on non-Western philosophical concepts and hybrid art works, such as Afro-Arabic film, postcolonially inspired graphic novels and documentary films, intercultural dance performances and hybrid art works.

4. Choose one person you would like to discuss your book with!

I would like to discuss this book with the cultural theorist Rey Chow herself situated between the Chinese and the US-American culture. She is aware of the intercultural situatedness of verbal and visual translations and of the effects of media practices concerning the constitution of cultural communities.

5. Your book summary in one sentence:

Our book is a journey through different processes of media translations and their inevitable intercultural situatedness.

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Autor_in(nen): Michaela Ott / Thomas Weber (eds.)
Buchtitel: Situated in Translations Cultural Communities and Media Practices
Verlag: transcript Verlag
Seitenanzahl: 234
Ausstattung: kart., Klebebindung, 74 SW-Abbildungen

ISBN: 978-3-8376-4343-5
DOI: 10.14361/9783839443439
Warengruppe: 1510
BIC-Code: JFC JFD
BISAC-Code: SOC022000 SOC052000
THEMA-Code: JBCC JBCT

Erscheinungsdatum: 15. April 2019
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Themen: Kultur, Globalisierung, Medien
Adressaten: Media Studies, Literary Studies, Performance and Theater Studies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies

Schlagworte: Mediated Communities, Composite Cultures, (Post-)Colonial Topics, Translation, Culture, Media, Globalization, Cultural Studies, Media Aesthetics, Interculturalism