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Mind the gap: translation in a fractured African society
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posted on 2014-08-21, 14:21 authored by Marion ArnoldThe spaces and tensions between races, ethnic groups, and communities in late apartheid and post-1994 South African society, and the co-existence of different languages, religions and cultures, generated a society so fractured that cultural translation became a formidably difficult task. The concept of translation in a transforming society is examined through analysing two-dimensional language as a means of translating political events and experiences into visual forms, which attempt to communicate across cultural gaps. Iconic documentary photographs by Sam Nzima (1976) and TRC photographers (1997), struggle posters by cooperatives and formally trained designers, and artworks by Kevin Brand, Sue Williamson and Marion Arnold are discussed. The images reveal that different forms of visual representation encode different relationships of signifying content and aesthetic form to offer alternatives to speech and writing in communicating some implications of apartheid politics, leaving a legacy that validates art and design as tools of political activism.
History
School
- The Arts, English and Drama
Department
- Arts
Published in
Third Text: third world perspectives on contemporary art and cultureVolume
27Issue
3Pages
419 - 435 (17)Citation
ARNOLD, M., 2013. Mind the gap: translation in a fractured African society. Third Text, 27 (3), pp. 419 - 435.Publisher
© Taylor and FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2013Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Third Text on 18th June 2013 available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09528822.2013.798179ISSN
0952-8822eISSN
1475-5297Publisher version
Language
- en