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Durham University
Modern Languages and Cultures
Public Lecture
hosted by the Transnationalism Research Group
Dr Hilary Chung
(Auckland)
The Dis/locat/ing Migrant as an Agent of Transposition in Andrea Segre’s Io sono Li (Shun Li and the Poet) and Sebastián Borensztein’s Un Cuento Chino (Chinese Takeaway)
17.00, 22 September
Room A56, Elvet Riverside 1
Refreshments available
Both films feature dislocated Chinese immigrants who throughout the films speak in their native languages. The talk analyses how the filmmakers manage linguistic difference and polyglossic interactions on both the intra- and extra-diegetic level, and how these linguistic and translation strategies impact on the way otherness is perceived in the films. Using Rosi Braidotti’s notion of transposition, it is argued that the way polyglottism is negotiated in these films functions to displace the us/other dynamic of migration cinema and promotes a nomadic vision of subjectivity whereby multiple, mobile subject positions offer modes of resistance to traditional habits of thought and representation.
Hilary Chung is Senior Lecturer in Asian Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Auckland. Her publications include In the Party Spirit: Socialist Realism and Literary Practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China (1996), Yang Lian: Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland (2006). She has a PhD in Modern Chinese Literature from the University of Durham.
Professor Nicholas Saul
Co-Editor, Novalis-Jahrbuch
Co-Director, Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
University of Durham
Elvet Riverside
New Elvet
GB-Durham DH1 3JT
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