1st Edition

Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation The Gaze from Southern Africa

By Pier Paolo Frassinelli Copyright 2020
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines concepts of the border and translation within the context of social and cultural theory through the lens of southern Africa. Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation studies a diverse range of media representations of borders, imagined borders, border struggles, collectivity boundaries and scenes of translation: films, documentaries, literary... Read more

1 The gaze from the south. 2 Heading south. 3 Intersecting temporalities, cultural (un)translatability and African film aesthetics. 4 Living in translation. 5 Reframing the rainbow. 6 Signs of the times.

Biography

Pier Paolo Frassinelli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.