Aedín Ní Loingsigh
Biographic Data
| ID | 714913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aedín Ní Loingsigh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aedín Ní |
| FAMILY NAME | Loingsigh |
| SIGNATURE | LOINGSIGH A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8717-9298 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sonia Zlitni-Fitouri , Réinventer la nature
Translation and the professional selves of Mercer Cook
This article explores the ways in which African American Mercer Cook's translation practice reflects complex overlaps between his professional/personal selves and an ideological backdrop that encompasses black internationalism, US race struggles and mid-twentieth-century diplomatic relations with Africa. A first section explores how Cook, a university professor of French, uses what he terms the "close-to-home" value of translation in order to exp…
The Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres
This article builds on existing analysis of the 1966 Dakar-based international Premier Festival des arts nègres (FESMAN). It takes as its starting point the assumption that the festival's organizers failed to demonstrate a practical, economic role for culture in their re-imagining of transnational black culture. The article demonstrates that, while philosophical questions of cultural identity were central to the festival, this unprecedented event…
Destination littérature-monde ? Travel and Language in Aux États-Unis d'Afrique
Agoraphobic travel? Mudimbe's Cheminements
Assumptions regarding the form and content of travel writing mean this genre is widely understood to be structured according to the progressive stages of a journey and concerned primarily with actual topographies and cultural difference. In V.Y. Mudimbe's Cheminements: Carnets de Berlin (avril–juin, 1999), an unwillingness to conform to any of travel writing's usual conventions appears to exclude the text from any theoretical debate on this parti…
Tourist Traps Confounding Expectations in Michel Houellebecq’s Plateforme
The controversy surrounding Michel Houellebecq’s third novel, Plateforme, has tended to overshadow critical examination of the text and, in particular, its engagement with contemporary tourist practices and the ways in which they inform and reflect Western attitudes to leisure time. This article illustrates how analysis of the novel’s portrayal of the tourist, and the ambiguous discourse that surrounds this figure, can reveal a certain depth and …
Algeria in Others' Languages
1University of Edinburgh Algeria in Others' Languages Anne‐EmmanuelleBerger Ithaca, N.Y. and LondonCornell University Press 2000ix + 246Paperback£12.95 0 8014 3939 1
The Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres
This article builds on existing analysis of the 1966 Dakar-based international Premier Festival des arts nègres (FESMAN). It takes as its starting point the assumption that the festival's organizers failed to demonstrate a practical, economic role for culture in their re-imagining of transnational black culture. The article demonstrates that, while philosophical questions of cultural identity were central to the festival, this unprecedented event…
Tourist Traps Confounding Expectations in Michel Houellebecq’s Plateforme
The controversy surrounding Michel Houellebecq’s third novel, Plateforme, has tended to overshadow critical examination of the text and, in particular, its engagement with contemporary tourist practices and the ways in which they inform and reflect Western attitudes to leisure time. This article illustrates how analysis of the novel’s portrayal of the tourist, and the ambiguous discourse that surrounds this figure, can reveal a certain depth and …
Algeria in Others' Languages
1University of Edinburgh Algeria in Others' Languages Anne‐EmmanuelleBerger Ithaca, N.Y. and LondonCornell University Press 2000ix + 246Paperback£12.95 0 8014 3939 1
Tourist Traps Confounding Expectations in Michel Houellebecq’s Plateforme
The controversy surrounding Michel Houellebecq’s third novel, Plateforme, has tended to overshadow critical examination of the text and, in particular, its engagement with contemporary tourist practices and the ways in which they inform and reflect Western attitudes to leisure time. This article illustrates how analysis of the novel’s portrayal of the tourist, and the ambiguous discourse that surrounds this figure, can reveal a certain depth and …
Agoraphobic travel? Mudimbe's Cheminements
Assumptions regarding the form and content of travel writing mean this genre is widely understood to be structured according to the progressive stages of a journey and concerned primarily with actual topographies and cultural difference. In V.Y. Mudimbe's Cheminements: Carnets de Berlin (avril–juin, 1999), an unwillingness to conform to any of travel writing's usual conventions appears to exclude the text from any theoretical debate on this parti…
Destination littérature-monde ? Travel and Language in Aux États-Unis d'Afrique
The Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres
This article builds on existing analysis of the 1966 Dakar-based international Premier Festival des arts nègres (FESMAN). It takes as its starting point the assumption that the festival's organizers failed to demonstrate a practical, economic role for culture in their re-imagining of transnational black culture. The article demonstrates that, while philosophical questions of cultural identity were central to the festival, this unprecedented event…
Translation and the professional selves of Mercer Cook
This article explores the ways in which African American Mercer Cook's translation practice reflects complex overlaps between his professional/personal selves and an ideological backdrop that encompasses black internationalism, US race struggles and mid-twentieth-century diplomatic relations with Africa. A first section explores how Cook, a university professor of French, uses what he terms the "close-to-home" value of translation in order to exp…
Sonia Zlitni-Fitouri , Réinventer la nature
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · North African History and Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Travel Writing and Literature (3 works)