Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices is a volume of essays that provides a detailed account of born-digital literature by artists and scholars who have contributed to its birth and evolution. Rather than offering a prescriptive definition of electronic literature, this book takes an ontological approach through descriptive exploration, treating electronic literature from the perspective of the digital humanities (DH)––that is, as an area of scholarship and practice that exists at the juncture between the literary and the algorithmic. The domain of DH is typically segmented into the two seemingly disparate strands of criticism and building, with scholars either studying the synthesis between cultural expression and screens or the use of technology to make artifacts in themselves. This book regards electronic literature as fundamentally DH in that it synthesizes these two constituents. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities provides a context for the development of the field, informed by the forms and practices that have emerged throughout the DH moment, and finally, offers resources for others interested in learning more about electronic literature

Identidty, displacement and embodiment in women's independent cinema

[À l'origine dans / Was originally part of : Thèses et mémoires - FAS - Département de littérature comparée]Ma thèse examine les déplacements multiples – déportation, exil, voyage – et l‟expérience diasporique de différentes communautés ethniques dans le cinéma indépendant de trois réalisatrices et artistes contemporaines : Julie Dash, Rea Tajiri et Trinh T. Minh-ha. J‟analyse la déconstruction et reconstruction de l‟identité à travers le voyage et autres déplacements physiques ainsi que les moyens d‟expression et stratégies cinématographiques utilisées par ces artistes pour articuler des configurations identitaires mouvantes. Je propose de nouvelles lectures de la position des femmes dans des milieux culturels différents en considérant la danse comme une métaphore de la reconfiguration de l‟identité féminine qui se différencie et s‟émancipe des traditions culturelles classiques. Les expériences de l‟histoire et de la mémoire, qui sont vécues dans les corps des femmes, sont aussi exprimées par le biais des relations intermédiales entre la photographie, la vidéo et le film qui proposent des images de femmes variées et complexes.My thesis examines the various forms of displacement resulting from deportation as well as the diasporic experience of dislocation from home and relocation to new socio-cultural spaces in the independent and experimental film and video of Julie Dash, Rea Tajiri, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. I highlight the deconstruction and reconstruction of intercultural identity through travel and the cinematic and narrative techniques or strategies of representations used by these artists to re-imagine identity. I propose new interpretations of women‟s position in different cultural settings in my consideration of dance as a metaphor for the empowerment and reconfiguration of women‟s identities as they distance themselves apart from inherited cultural traditions. Women‟s experiences of history and memory are expressed in the work of Dash, Trinh and Tajiri not only through travel and dance movements, but also in terms of intermedial relations between photography, video and film. The transfers and mutual transformations between these media result in complex depictions of women‟s activities in varying rhythms