January 31st 2019
6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt
sissy.helff
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Sissy
Helff
Sissy Helff is an anglicist with a broad range of interests in Anglophone world literature, postcolonial and transcultural studies, visual culture, history and politics. Her most recent book, entitled "Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women’s Fiction of the Diaspora’" is an overview of Indian diasporic women writing from around the world including South Africa. In addition to her work at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Sissy Helff has been working as a journalist for development matters and cultural diplomacy. She is one of the founding members of cultural project migration and media: http://www.migrationandmedia.com
Project / Institute / Department:
Institute for English and American Studies / Department of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Street / P.O. Box:
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
Postcode (ZIP Code):
60323
City:
Frankfurt am Main
Country:
Germany
Phone:
069/798-32353
Websites:
AFRASO I Projects:
AFRASO Publications:
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2013 ;
Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women’s Fiction of the Diaspora. ;
Helff, Sissy ;
Rodopi. Pb ;
Amsterdam/New York
Talks / Lectures:
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2015 ;
‘Deep Memory’ in Indian Ocean Photography ;
S4-B: Der Indische Ozean als Erinnerungsraum, S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space ;
African Asian Encounters (II): Re-Thinking African-Asian Relationships: Changing Realities – New Concepts ;
Kapstadt
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2014 ;
Transregional Sightlines: Visualising Dialogues between Asia and Africa in Photography ;
S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-B: Der Indische Ozean als Erinnerungsraum ;
African Asian Encounters (I): New Cooperations – New Dependencies ;
Kuala Lumpur
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2013 ;
Transregional Sightlines: Images of Asia in African Photography ;
S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-B: Der Indische Ozean als Erinnerungsraum ;
16th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) ;
St. Lucia
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2015 ;
Collective Amnesia, Denial or Disavowal of History? The Indian Ocean Islands of Mauritius and its Colonial Past ;
S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture, S4-A: Imaginationen des Indischen Ozeans in der ostafrikanischen Literatur und Oralkultur, S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-B: Der Indische Ozean als Erinnerungsraum ;
Indian Ocean Memories Workshop, the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform ;
The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, Goethe University Frankfurt
Publications:
(2013) Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women’s Fiction of the Diaspora . Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. Pb: ISBN 978-90-420-3628-4
(2012) "The Missing Link: Transculturation, Hybridity and/or Transculturality?," in: Literature for Our Times. Bill Ashcroft, Julie McGonegal, Ranjini Mendis, and Arun Mukherjee (eds.). Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 187-202.
(2012) "Ambiguous Gestures, Ambivalent Images. Migratory Aesthetics and Contemporary Photography," in: Shoe Shop. Marie-Hélèn Gutberlet et al. (eds.) Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 189-199.
(2011) Die Kunst der Migration. Aktuelle Positionen zum europäisch-afrikanischen Diskurs. Material – Gestaltung – Kritik. (with Marie-Hélèn Gutberlet (eds.): Kultur- und Medientheorie. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-1594-4
(2009) "Illegal Diasporas and African Refugees in Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea," Journal of Commonwealth Literature 44:1, 67-80.
(2008) "Shifting Perspectives: The Transcultural Novel," in: Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Fictions, Realities. Frank Schulze-Engler und Sissy Helff (eds.). Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 75-89.
(2007) "Lesbian Imaginative Spaces in Indian Fiction: Transgressions and Transculturality," (with Vera Alexander) Muse India March-April Issue 12, ISSN 0975-1815, www.museindia.com.
(2007) "Signs Taken For Truth: Orchestrating Transcultural Aesthetics through Narrative Unreliability," in: Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English Vol XXIX. Sabine Volk-Birke und Julia Lippert (eds.). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 277-288.
(2007) "Grenzräume und Grenzerfahrung in der Indischen Diasporaliteratur Afrikas," (with Vera Alexander) in: Grenzen ohne Fächergrenzen - Interdisziplinäre Annäherungen. Bärbel Kuhn, Martina Pitz und Andreas Schorr (eds.). St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 11-25.
(2006) "The Politics of Shifting Boundaries in Moyez G. Vassanji's The Gunny Sack and Farida Karodia's Other Secrets," (with Vera Alexander) in: Africa, Europe and (Post)colonialism: Racism, Migration and Diaspora. Susan Arndt und Marek Spitczok von Brisinski (eds.). Bayreuth: African Studies Series, 327-342.