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Postcolonial Girl: Remember Gamu Gate?
Postcolonial Girl: Mediated Intimacy and Migrant Audibility Imogen Tyler and Rosalind Gill In October 2010, Gamu Nhengu, a Zimbabwean teenager, was ejected from the popular British reality TV talent show, The X Factor, on which she was a contestant. There was a public backlash to what many perceived was an unjust eviction. Within days, however,…
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Social Abjection: Extract from The Introduction to Revolting Subjects
Revolting: Verb: The action of revolt; apostasy; rebellion, insurrection; Adjective: That [which] evokes revulsion; repulsive, disgusting. Noun: That which is revolting; revoltingness. (abridged from the Oxford English Dictionary, 2012) Introduction Revolting is a powerful word. Within an emotional register being revolted is an expression of disgust, ‘to react or rise with repugnance against something. To…
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The Wretched of the Earth: ‘However hard it is kicked or stoned it continues to gnaw at the roots of the tree like a pack of rats’ (Fanon).
The Wretched of the Earth ‘However hard it is kicked or stoned it continues to gnaw at the roots of the tree like a pack of rats’ (Fanon). In an extraordinary short essay titled ‘Abjection and Miserable Forms’ (Bataille [1934] 1993) Georges Bataille, writing in the shadow of Hitler’s rise to power, developed the concept…
