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TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction
T2 - Aporias of Foreignness: Transnational Encounters in Cinema
AU - Marciniak, Katarzyna
AU - Bennett, Bruce Thomas
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Transnational Cinemas on 12/06/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20403526.2018.1478371
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This introduction examines the meaning of foreignness, drawing on Jacques Derrida‘s discussion of ‘the aporia’ to propose that foreignness is critically aporetic - undecidable and unstable. At amoment when racist political rhetoric is being normalized and xenophobic political movements are on the rise, thinking about ‘aporias of foreignness’ allows us to reflect upon questions ofbelonging and hospitality, and the complexity and historical contingency of the relationship between self and other, indigenous citizen and immigrant, asylum-seeker or refugee. The introductory chapter proposes that cinema is a crucial medium through which to rethink foreignness since cinema always involves a potentially disorienting encounter with the unfamiliar, an encounter that is at the centre of the work of artist Ai Weiwei in film and other media.
AB - This introduction examines the meaning of foreignness, drawing on Jacques Derrida‘s discussion of ‘the aporia’ to propose that foreignness is critically aporetic - undecidable and unstable. At amoment when racist political rhetoric is being normalized and xenophobic political movements are on the rise, thinking about ‘aporias of foreignness’ allows us to reflect upon questions ofbelonging and hospitality, and the complexity and historical contingency of the relationship between self and other, indigenous citizen and immigrant, asylum-seeker or refugee. The introductory chapter proposes that cinema is a crucial medium through which to rethink foreignness since cinema always involves a potentially disorienting encounter with the unfamiliar, an encounter that is at the centre of the work of artist Ai Weiwei in film and other media.
KW - aporia
KW - aporetic foreignness
KW - Ai Weiwei
KW - Human Flow
KW - being-with refugees
KW - #standwithrefugees
U2 - 10.1080/20403526.2018.1478371
DO - 10.1080/20403526.2018.1478371
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - Transnational Cinemas
JF - Transnational Cinemas
SN - 2040-3526
IS - 1
ER -