Lin Yutang, a world-famous writer and translator, has long been known as an apolitical cultural ambassador. This study reveals, however, that beginning from the early 1940s, Lin turned from apoliti...

India’s rise as the world’s largest democracy and its challenge to the Western-defined global order have attracted significant scholarly, political, and media attention. Using Anderson and Prelli’s...

Bougaard, an emerging South African creative practitioner, examines games from her “Coloured” childhood community in Eden Park, Johannesburg, and how these games may offer a window into a reframed ...

This article examines a selection of artistic production by four white South African women after apartheid ended, whose work articulates affects associated with nostalgic desire and loss. By thinki...

Zhao Chuan’s play World Factory continuously introduces reality into the theatre by resorting to the creative techniques of documentary theatre, epic theatre, and theatre of the oppressed in left-w...

This article explores the artistic and scientific practices of Lander Gyselinck, focusing on the hybridisation of jazz and beat-based electronic dance genres. The research investigates how cross-fe...

This study aims to explore how Confucius is recharacterised in the multimodal translation of The Analects from verbal (analects) to verbal-visual (comics) texts. The focus is on the interpersonal/i...

This article proposes a methodology to identify rhetorical energies that form within the diegetic timeline of movies and to translate these to creative sculpting of spacetime designs. In turn, the ...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

The metaverse brings us not only a flashy phase of new technologies, but also forces us to rethink some fundamental philosophical concepts, among which the theory of objects becomes an important is...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

In this article, I consider the global tradition of live art as a pedagogical force that draws on queer affect and resonance. Scholars of performance studies have situated live art in the field of ...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This article explores Alicia Little’s presentation of foot-bound women in her travelogues and periodical essays. Her exploration of the anti-footbinding movement saw the dissemination of Western fe...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Delving into the various things in Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement, this article seeks to value the being of materiality with inspiration gained from Thing Narratology and New Materialism. Rather...

In multicultural and multilingual societies like South Africa, newswork, or the practices that underpin the news-making process, is made possible by linguistic and cultural translation. In other wo...

In an era of uncertainty, where epistemic freedoms are challenged and where many people feel excluded, how can communication – both as a discipline and a practice – serve to combat these uncertaint...

The authors position and contextualise Adelheid Frackiewicz’s recent landart amid comparable works by contemporary artists, dealing with land loss, mourning, and migration. Paul Ricoeur’s magnanimo...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

With growing attention to including parents and eliciting their voices in the inclusive journey of their children, this paper discusses a process of research-creation. With examples of parents maki...

This paper reflects upon an in-progress, exploratory piece of digital theatre adapted from Zeno Constance’s seminal bildungsroman The Ritual. In this work, Black women engage in a process of theori...

The article explores the common ground between critical public anthropology and critical public pedagogy as critically conscious, engaged, and animating practices. Through intervention in the publi...

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This research paper explores different game design methodologies that can be used to translate the South African novel Souvenir by Jane Rosenthal, set in the semi-desert region known as the Karoo i...

The present study delves into the portrayal of dark humour in the Hindi films produced in Mumbai, popularly known as Bollywood films. The dark humour films of Bollywood mainly focus on prevalent so...