Outputs (23)

Territories of literary history: the shifting boundaries of Francophone literature in Canada (2014)
Book Chapter
Chapman, R. (2014). Territories of literary history: the shifting boundaries of Francophone literature in Canada. In N. Cheadle, J. Boissonneault, & A. Reguigui (Eds.), Language and territory: literary spaces/Langues et territoire: espaces littéraires. Laurentian University, Ontario

The writing of literary history opens up a range of questions about territory and boundaries. While recognising the energising role of Quebec nationalism in the emergence and affirmation of Québécois literature in the second half of the Twentieth Cen... Read More about Territories of literary history: the shifting boundaries of Francophone literature in Canada.

Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art (2014)
Book
HEGARTY, P. (2015). Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art. Bloomsbury Publishing

This is a book about video art, and about sound art.

The thesis is that sound first entered the gallery via the video art of the 1960s and in so doing, created an unexpected noise. The early part of the book looks at this formative period and the... Read More about Rumour and Radiation: Sound in Video Art.

The mirror and the map: Central Europe in the late prose of Danilo Kiš (2014)
Journal Article
Zoric, V. (2014). The mirror and the map: Central Europe in the late prose of Danilo Kiš

The article examines Danilo Kiš’s essayistic and narrative articulations of the cultural space of Central Europe in the context of dissident debates and the Yugoslav political crisis. In mid-1980s, Kundera’s essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe” spar... Read More about The mirror and the map: Central Europe in the late prose of Danilo Kiš.

‘A room-sized ocean’: apartments in the practice and mythology of Leningrad’s rock music (2014)
Book Chapter
MCMICHAEL, P. (2014). ‘A room-sized ocean’: apartments in the practice and mythology of Leningrad’s rock music. In W. J. Risch (Ed.), Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc. Lexington Books

Mal de Mar: a reading of Jorge de Sena’s “A Grã-Canária” in (trans-) Atlantic transit (2014)
Journal Article
Gonçalves Miranda, R. (2014). Mal de Mar: a reading of Jorge de Sena’s “A Grã-Canária” in (trans-) Atlantic transit

This article analyzes Jorge de Sena’s short story “A Grã-Canária” in the context of a wider discussion on the topographies of the South Atlantic taken as an ideological construct, to some extent always already textual(ized). The story emphasizes the... Read More about Mal de Mar: a reading of Jorge de Sena’s “A Grã-Canária” in (trans-) Atlantic transit.

Beyond portraiture: recent writing on photography (2014)
Journal Article
Yacavone, K. (2014). Beyond portraiture: recent writing on photography. Paragraph, 37(3), https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2014.0137

Review essay of

James Elkins, What photography is (New York and London: Routledge, 2011), xiii + 222 pp.

Liz Wells, Land matters: landscape photography, culture and identity (London: I. B. Tauris, 2011), 333 pp.

'French' Cybernetics (2014)
Journal Article
Johnson, C. (2015). 'French' Cybernetics. French Studies, 69(1), 60-78. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knu229

Leadership in the Cuban Revolution: The Unseen Story (2014)
Book
Kapcia, A. (2014). Leadership in the Cuban Revolution: The Unseen Story. Zed Books/Fernwood Publishing

Photography in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures (2014)
Book
Yacavone, K. (Ed.). (2014). Photography in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures

"A broad and inclusive account of the multiple manifestations of photography in contemporary French and francophone societies and cultures."

The cultural institutionalization of photography in France: a brief history (2014)
Journal Article
Yacavone, K. (2014). The cultural institutionalization of photography in France: a brief history. Nottingham French Studies, 55(2), https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2014.0080

This article provides a historical overview of the cultural institutionalization of photography in France, with a particular focus on the pioneering initiatives of individual photography enthusiasts throughout the 1970s to promote photographic cultur... Read More about The cultural institutionalization of photography in France: a brief history.