Jay Straker
Biographic Data
| ID | 109367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jay Straker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jay |
| FAMILY NAME | Straker |
| SIGNATURE | STRAKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado School of Mines |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958 (review)
Reviewed by: Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958 Jay Straker Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958. By Elizabeth Schmidt. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007). In this book, her second major study of the roots and trajectory of nationalism in Guinée française, Elizabeth Schmidt brings together a remarkable range of postwar archival documents and oral-historical accounts to forge new understandings of political militancy i…
Illusions of transcendence: Laurent Chevallier's Circus Baobab and the volatile charms of Guinean youth performance arts
Shot in a distinctively lyrical, experimental style, Laurent Chevallier's documentary Circus Baobab (2001) chronicled the pioneering tour of le premier cirque acrobatique arien d'Afrique across the Republic of Guinea. The film evinced a reverence for Guinea's cultural patrimonies, the sociological and environmental attributes of its interior regions and the spellbinding dance and acrobatic talents of the local youths who were the stars of the tra…
The State of the Subject: A Guinean Educator's Odyssey in the Postcolonial Forest, 1960–2001
Recent research on twentieth-century Africa has been marked by a surge of interest in autobiographical narrative. While this development is generally praiseworthy, the knowledge it has produced has been uneven, in temporal as well as spatial terms. This article channels the current interest in personal experience and narrative to a place and time where resonances of the ‘common’ voice have been rather weak: the Republic of Guinea, across the fina…
Performing the Predicaments of National Belonging: The Art and Politics of the Tuareg Ensemble Tartit at the 2003 Folklife Festival
This article on the Republic of Mali's involvement in the 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival examines conflicting conceptions of the nation-state as a framework for understanding the purpose of the festival. Its descriptions of the stage performances and commentary of members of Tartit-the sole music ensemble representing the Tuareg communities of Mali's northern Saharan region-enable analysis of a complex set of artistic, political, and economic…
Youth, globalisation, and millennial reflection in a Guinean forest town
The last two decades have witnessed a surge in studies of youth culture and social practice. In Africa, as elsewhere, this body of youth-centred research and writing has devoted considerable attention to specific groups within a given country's young population, while largely neglecting others seen to lack either culturally innovative or politically subversive traits. Youths in large cities and young combatants involved in insurgency or counter-i…
Stories of 'Militant Theatre' in the Guinean forest: Demystifying' the Motives and Moralities of a Revolutionary Nation-State
The cultural dynamics of anticolonial and postcolonial nationalisms have inspired impassioned research and writing for several decades. Stark contrasts have emerged within this still growing body of work. Many analysts have stressed nationalism's powers to reconfigure popular experiences of politics, culture, and the movement of history. Conversely, many others, particularly current anthropologists, have underscored nationalism's incapacities to …
Youth, Nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution
How youth-centered ambitions destroyed the ideals of nationhood in Guinea
Stories of 'Militant Theatre' in the Guinean forest: Demystifying' the Motives and Moralities of a Revolutionary Nation-State
The cultural dynamics of anticolonial and postcolonial nationalisms have inspired impassioned research and writing for several decades. Stark contrasts have emerged within this still growing body of work. Many analysts have stressed nationalism's powers to reconfigure popular experiences of politics, culture, and the movement of history. Conversely, many others, particularly current anthropologists, have underscored nationalism's incapacities to …
The State of the Subject: A Guinean Educator's Odyssey in the Postcolonial Forest, 1960–2001
Recent research on twentieth-century Africa has been marked by a surge of interest in autobiographical narrative. While this development is generally praiseworthy, the knowledge it has produced has been uneven, in temporal as well as spatial terms. This article channels the current interest in personal experience and narrative to a place and time where resonances of the ‘common’ voice have been rather weak: the Republic of Guinea, across the fina…
Performing the Predicaments of National Belonging: The Art and Politics of the Tuareg Ensemble Tartit at the 2003 Folklife Festival
This article on the Republic of Mali's involvement in the 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival examines conflicting conceptions of the nation-state as a framework for understanding the purpose of the festival. Its descriptions of the stage performances and commentary of members of Tartit-the sole music ensemble representing the Tuareg communities of Mali's northern Saharan region-enable analysis of a complex set of artistic, political, and economic…
Youth, globalisation, and millennial reflection in a Guinean forest town
The last two decades have witnessed a surge in studies of youth culture and social practice. In Africa, as elsewhere, this body of youth-centred research and writing has devoted considerable attention to specific groups within a given country's young population, while largely neglecting others seen to lack either culturally innovative or politically subversive traits. Youths in large cities and young combatants involved in insurgency or counter-i…
Youth, Nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution
How youth-centered ambitions destroyed the ideals of nationhood in Guinea
Youth, globalisation, and millennial reflection in a Guinean forest town
The last two decades have witnessed a surge in studies of youth culture and social practice. In Africa, as elsewhere, this body of youth-centred research and writing has devoted considerable attention to specific groups within a given country's young population, while largely neglecting others seen to lack either culturally innovative or politically subversive traits. Youths in large cities and young combatants involved in insurgency or counter-i…
Stories of 'Militant Theatre' in the Guinean forest: Demystifying' the Motives and Moralities of a Revolutionary Nation-State
The cultural dynamics of anticolonial and postcolonial nationalisms have inspired impassioned research and writing for several decades. Stark contrasts have emerged within this still growing body of work. Many analysts have stressed nationalism's powers to reconfigure popular experiences of politics, culture, and the movement of history. Conversely, many others, particularly current anthropologists, have underscored nationalism's incapacities to …
The State of the Subject: A Guinean Educator's Odyssey in the Postcolonial Forest, 1960–2001
Recent research on twentieth-century Africa has been marked by a surge of interest in autobiographical narrative. While this development is generally praiseworthy, the knowledge it has produced has been uneven, in temporal as well as spatial terms. This article channels the current interest in personal experience and narrative to a place and time where resonances of the ‘common’ voice have been rather weak: the Republic of Guinea, across the fina…
Performing the Predicaments of National Belonging: The Art and Politics of the Tuareg Ensemble Tartit at the 2003 Folklife Festival
This article on the Republic of Mali's involvement in the 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival examines conflicting conceptions of the nation-state as a framework for understanding the purpose of the festival. Its descriptions of the stage performances and commentary of members of Tartit-the sole music ensemble representing the Tuareg communities of Mali's northern Saharan region-enable analysis of a complex set of artistic, political, and economic…
Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958 (review)
Reviewed by: Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958 Jay Straker Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958. By Elizabeth Schmidt. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007). In this book, her second major study of the roots and trajectory of nationalism in Guinée française, Elizabeth Schmidt brings together a remarkable range of postwar archival documents and oral-historical accounts to forge new understandings of political militancy i…
Illusions of transcendence: Laurent Chevallier's Circus Baobab and the volatile charms of Guinean youth performance arts
Shot in a distinctively lyrical, experimental style, Laurent Chevallier's documentary Circus Baobab (2001) chronicled the pioneering tour of le premier cirque acrobatique arien d'Afrique across the Republic of Guinea. The film evinced a reverence for Guinea's cultural patrimonies, the sociological and environmental attributes of its interior regions and the spellbinding dance and acrobatic talents of the local youths who were the stars of the tra…
Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)