The politics of the untranslated
An affective-discursive approach to Somali pirates inA Hijacking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2173161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Salam Al-Mahadin (0000-0001-8326-9694, Al-Ahliyya Amman University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 307-322 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-6815 • E-ISSN: 1469-9346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13696815.2018.1427557 |
| OpenAlex | W2793197942 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
Adopting an Affective-Discursive approach, this article explores the visual and textual representations of Somali Pirates in the Danish Film A Hijacking, which is based on true events. I argue that the lack of subtitles for exchanges in the Somali language, camera treatment of the pirates, and the juxtaposition between sound and editing techniques used to capture the pirate and the western crew, have resulted in a screen production that not only masks the complexities of the piracy enterprise but also marginalizes Somali pirates and their truths, portraying them as little better than savages. This irreducibility between image and text will also be a key point of departure for examining the figure of the pirate as an affective/abjective/monstrous construction, rather than simply a discursive/textual one
Aesthetics · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Somali · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Maritime Security and History · Sex work and related issues · History · Law · Philosophy
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |