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Blue-Belonging: A Discussion Of Olive Senior's Latest Collection Of Poetry, Over The Roofs Of The World, Anne A. Collett Jan 2007

Blue-Belonging: A Discussion Of Olive Senior's Latest Collection Of Poetry, Over The Roofs Of The World, Anne A. Collett

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In the twelfth annual Philip Sherlock Lecture, delivered in February 2005 at the University of the West Indies ( Mona, Jamaica), Olive Senior spoke about the journey she had undertaken to becoming a woman-of-words, and established the connection between 'tradition and the individual talent' with the claim that the voice of individual talent in the Caribbean is one that necessarily draws upon oral and scribal cultures.


Post-Burden Or New Burden Korean Cinema?: Outside Looking In At The Latest Golden Age, 1996-?, Brian M. Yecies Jan 2007

Post-Burden Or New Burden Korean Cinema?: Outside Looking In At The Latest Golden Age, 1996-?, Brian M. Yecies

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This work-in-progress examines the paradoxical nature of what I call Koreas post-burden cinema a present-day film industry that has survived Japanese colonialism, American occupation, civil war, prolonged dictatorship, rapid industrialization, economic crisis and severe censorship. For nearly a century filmmakers have learned and practised their trade under these challenging social, political, cultural, economic and industrial constraints, and outlived them. This paper uses a case study of The President's Last Bang to illustrate the divergent freedoms that have enabled representative commercial, art-house, independent and animation filmmakers to transcend national and cultural borders by telling previouslyforbidden stories and breathing a universal but …