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Zitat: “Fake”

Mit Fake wird ein Begriff entworfen, der entgegen seiner konventionellen Verwendung im Englischen die Strategie umreißt, auf den eigenen Doppelstatus aufmerksam zu machen, gleichzeitig der Kategorie des „originalen Kunstwerks“ und auch der der „Fälschung“ zu entsprechen.

Quelle: Künstlerische Strategien des Fake – Kritik von Original und Fäschung, Stefan Römer; 2001, DuMont Buchverlag KölnS. 17

Posted by AS, 19. Jan 2019
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Zitat: How to Write about Africa

Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title. Subtitles may include the words ‘Zanzibar’, ‘Masai’, ‘Zulu’, ‘Zambezi’, ‘Congo’, ‘Nile’, ‘Big’, ‘Sky’, ‘Shadow’, ‘Drum’, ‘Sun’ or ‘Bygone’. Also useful are words such as ‘Guerrillas’, ‘Timeless’, ‘Primordial’ and ‘Tribal’. Note that ‘People’ means Africans who are not black, while ‘The People’ means black Africans.

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use these. If you must include an African, make sure you get one in Masai or Zulu or Dogon dress.

In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it is hot and steamy with very short people who eat primates. Don’t get bogged down with precise descriptions. Africa is big: fifty-four countries, 900 million people who are too busy starving and dying and warring and emigrating to read your book. The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader doesn’t care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular. (…)

Quelle: https://granta.com/how-to-write-about-africa/ Zugriff: 20.01.2019

 

Posted by YZ, 19. Jan 2019
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