Tag: Postcolonialism

September 26, 2014

From Radio to Film … And Beyond — Rey Chow

“Long before I came to study film academically, these visits [to my mother’s film studios] had opened my eyes to the utterly fragmentary making of the artwork in the age of technical reproducibility.”—Rey Chow We conclude our week-long feature on...

September 25, 2014

Rey Chow — The Sounds and Scripts of a Hong Kong Childhood

In “The Sounds and Scripts of a Hong Kong Childhood,” the final chapter of Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience, Rey Chow explores elements of her own upbringing in colonial Hong Kong. In the following...

September 23, 2014

Interview with Rey Chow, author of "Not Like a Native Speaker"

“My book asks: can there be other ways of coming to terms with loss? Can loss be perceived, however painfully, as an alternative beginning to something different?”—Rey Chow The following is an interview with Rey Chow, author of Not Like...

February 6, 2013

Saikat Majumdar on Prose of the World

The following post is by Saikat Majumdar, author of Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire. In the essay, Majumdar explains some of the central arguments and interventions of his book. In praise of the book, Rebecca...

September 26, 2012

Interview with Daniel Herwitz, Part II

“Heritage began as a secular religion and is now a battleground between the forces of recognition, politics and commerce. It is where art, culture, history, politics and markets meet. Little could be more interesting than this.”—Daniel Herwitz Here is the...