TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Sound matters: postcolonial critique for a viral age JF - Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives N2 - This essay proposes a reorientation in postcolonial studies that takes account of the transcultural realities of the viral twenty-first century. This reorientation entails close attention to actual performances, their specific medial embeddedness, and their entanglement in concrete formal or informal material conditions. It suggests that rather than a focus on print and writing favoured by theories in the wake of the linguistic turn, performed lyrics and sounds may be better suited to guide the conceptual work. Accordingly, the essay chooses a classic of early twentieth-century digital music – M.I.A.’s 2003/2005 single “Galang” – as its guiding example. It ultimately leads up to a reflection on what Ravi Sundaram coined as “pirate modernity,” which challenges us to rethink notions of artistic authorship and authority, hegemony and subversion, culture and theory in the postcolonial world of today. KW - Sound KW - M.I.A. KW - Galang KW - music KW - postcolonial critique KW - transculturality KW - pirate modernity KW - Great Britain KW - South Asian diaspora Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2016.1216222 SN - 1478-8810 SN - 1740-4649 VL - 13 SP - 445 EP - 456 PB - American Geophysical Union CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Höne, Christin T1 - The Musical Novel: Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance and Reception in Contemporary Fiction JF - Geophysical research letters Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcw001 SN - 0027-4224 SN - 1477-4631 VL - 97 SP - 190 EP - 191 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reimer, Anna Maria T1 - Identitas Oriens: Discursive Constructions of Identity and Alterity in British Orient Travelogues JF - Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2016-0010 SN - 0044-2305 SN - 2196-4726 VL - 64 SP - 112 EP - 114 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deffa, Oromiya-Jalata T1 - The impact of homogeneity on intra-group cohesion: a macro-level comparison of minority communities in a Western diaspora JF - Journal of multilingual and multicultural development N2 - Contrary to earlier studies dealing with the cultural identity development of diasporic minorities, this paper assesses the impact of homogeneity on intra-group cohesion and ethnic orientation. To this end, Oromo-Americans, an ethnic group originally located within the national borders of Ethiopia, will be compared to Armenian-Americans, British-Pakistanis and Somali-Americans. Despite different circumstances, all four groups share the experience of displacement owing to war and destitution. Additionally, all groups are confronted with the ramifications of a visible minority status. In the process of comparing these groups, their degrees of homogeneity in regard to language and religion - central aspects of culture and cultural identity - will be examined and juxtaposed at a macro level. Based on the correlative relationship of group homogeneity and social cohesion, I argue that the more homogeneous a group is in terms of language and religion, the more close-knit it will be. Consequently, exiled minorities who share the same language and religion are more likely to develop and retain a strong ethnic orientation than groups who are heterogeneous with regard to language and/or religion. KW - minority groups KW - Homogeneity KW - ethnic orientation KW - group cohesion KW - religion KW - language Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2015.1072203 SN - 0143-4632 SN - 1747-7557 VL - 37 SP - 343 EP - 356 PB - Elsevier CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Magagna, Tony R. T1 - "Say It Right, Say It Correct": Documenting the American West in The Laramie Project JF - Western American Literature Y1 - 2016 SN - 0043-3462 SN - 1948-7142 VL - 51 SP - 199 EP - 229 PB - Utha State University CY - Logan ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spahn, Hannah T1 - Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, All the While Being Dead JF - The American historical review Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.3.933 SN - 0002-8762 SN - 1937-5239 VL - 121 SP - 933 EP - 934 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Leung, Ray C. H. T1 - A corpus-based analysis of textbooks used in the orientation course for immigrants in Germany: Ideological and pedagogic implications JF - Journal of Language and Cultural Education KW - orientation course KW - immigrants KW - Germany KW - corpus linguistics KW - textbooks KW - ideologies Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2016-0030 SN - 1339-4045 SN - 1339-4584 VL - 4 SP - 154 EP - 177 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ehmer, Oliver A1 - Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar T1 - Adverbial patterns in interaction T2 - Language sciences Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2016.05.001 SN - 0388-0001 SN - 1873-5746 VL - 58 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Roeder, Katrin T1 - Engaging with T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets as a Multimedia Performance JF - Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2016-0029 SN - 0044-2305 SN - 2196-4726 VL - 64 SP - 281 EP - 300 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kunow, Rüdiger T1 - Postcolonial theory and old age: An explorative essay JF - Journal of aging studie KW - Postcolonial theory KW - Old age KW - Positional difference KW - Subaltemity KW - Postcolonial aspects of old age KW - Cultural theory Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2016.06.004 SN - 0890-4065 SN - 1879-193X VL - 39 SP - 101 EP - 108 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER -