1st Edition
Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art Performing Migration
List of Figures Introduction: Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art, Rocio G. Davis, Dorothea Fisher-Hornung, and Johanna C. Kardux Part I. Border Crossings and (Trans)nationalism in Film 1: Paradigms of Attitudes Towards Immigration: Science Fiction Films as Allegories in the Mid-Century, Juan Bruce-Novoa 2: No Country for Old Certainties: Ambivalence, Hybridity, and Dangerous Crossings in Three Borderland Films, Page Laws 3: Bodies and Hybrid Tropes: Border Crossings in Recent Films, Cathy Covell Waegner 4: From Alien Nation to Alienation: Tracing the Figure of the Guest Worker in Fatih Akin’s Gegen die Wand, Tessa C. Lee 5: "Lunch with the Bigot": 9/11 in Bollywood’s Filmic Imagination, Mita Banerjee Part II. Migrant Adaptations in Television 6: Invisible Ethnicity: Canadian Erasure, Vanishing Dutchness, Aritha Van Herk 7: Performing Linguistic Identity and Integration: The Politics of Interpellation in the Catalonian Media, Klaus Zilles 8: The Trans/migrant in the Spotlight: Space and Movement in Brazilian Telenovelas, Gundo Rial y Costas Part III. Traveling Sounds: Music and Migration 9: Migratory Objects in the Balkans: When the Sound of the Other Sounds Strangely Familiar, Maria Boletsi 10: Variations on a Fugitive’s Song: The Performance of Disappearance and Forced Migration in Chile, Nicolás Salazar-Sutil 11: Immigration and Modernism: Arnold Schoenberg and the Los Angeles Émigrés, Kenneth J. Marcus Part IV. Performing Ethnicity and Migration: Cultural and Artistic Practices 12: Ethnic Nostalgia: Ethnicity as Cultural Practice in the Twenty-First Century, Marcus Embry 13: Connoisseurs of Urban Life: Aesthetic Practices and the Everyday Among Japanese Migrants in New York City, Olga Kanzaki Sooudi 14: "All Islands Connect Under Water": Ping Chong’s Undesirable Elements Series, Roberta De Martini Notes on Contributors Index
Biography
Rocío G. Davis is Professor of English at the City University of Hong Kong.
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung is Senior Lecturer at the English Department of Heidelberg University, Germany.
Johanna C. Kardux is the Director of American Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
