Tag: Transnationalism

released!

Yesterday will be remembered fondly by many. I received the wonderful news from Maria Claudia:

8:24 AM maria: alf was released

Today there are photos on Facebook. Joy in the morning! I would say Alf does not appear any worse for the wear, but no doubt changes have been etched into his character after nearly five months in captivity. Although … Read more...

juxtaposition: riding walls

Within minutes of each other I watched and listened to Steve’s rousing (northern) seasonal greeting from (as he says) “a happier time, before Vietnam, the Civil Rights, and all the “horrors” of our “modern” world,” and Tamer’s reminder of other realities: snapshot of a modern horror.
Meanwhile, the economic news is better in Bethelem this year, tourism has increased … Read more...

brainiac

Spark posted a great summary of a book I think I’d like to read. It critiques the role/rule of experts, a phenomena which caught my attention when a history professor whose class I interpreted frequently mentioned the rise of experts with disdain.
I tried to post a comment but my Korean is insufficient for decoding the directions:
“Great summary! I’m … Read more...

babel

Uttered in at least five languages (Arabic, Spanish, English, Japanese Sign Language, and Japanese), this film plays with the stereotype that different languages are a problem. As we follow the stories of four families, one realizes the source of confusion is not “in” the language; rather, it is the challenge of interpreting language in the context of a given … Read more...

voices and home

“A voice belongs first to a body, then to a language” (52).

Negar told me about an Iranian saying, that learning another language adds a new person to your self. Yes, new capacities, new zones of expression and perception, yet what Berger says is also true, the voice—in its emotion-inducing physicality [my qualification]—remains the same. This use of the word … Read more...

Judith T. Irvine

“…commenting on a set of papers is itself an intertextual exercise. To point out connections among the papers, and tie them in various ways to one’s own text, is a metalevel intertextual task that – if (as one hopes) one is perspicacious or just lucky – is to co-construct the papers’ cumulative effect. It is an interdiscursive task […] intertextualit … Read more...

Do you think…

that Michael Peter Smith himself really found Reflexivity or has his own little software engine checking out who’s been reading his book? He added a comment to this post from last fall. 🙂
He posted the URL to his website. His earlier book, Transnationalism from Below might be useful for my research project on interpreting.… Read more...