{"id":297,"date":"2011-08-04T17:02:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-08-04T17:03:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:03:34","slug":"text-in-online-magazine-reprint-peer-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Text in online-magazine, reprint, peer reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juli 2011 In\u00a0<em>\u201cYou are not welcome here\u201d. Of post-apartheid negrophobia, and real aliens in Blomkamp\u2019s<\/em> District 9 (gemeinsam mit Henriette Gunkel). In: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmatter101.org\/site\/\">darkmatter. in the ruins of imperial culture<\/a>, No. 6, January\/February 2010 (reprint as article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmatter101.org\/site\/category\/journal\/issues\/7-general-issue\/\">general issue 7<\/a>,  July 2011, peer reviewed) erl\u00e4utern wir, warum District 9 eine  aussergew\u00f6hnliche, aufrichtige Kritik an der postkolonialen Gesellschaft  S\u00fcdafrikas darstellt. Dies aber zum hohen Preis, insbesondere Afrikaner  aus anderen afrikanischen Staaten (Nigerianer) als blinden Fleck zu  behandeln. Wir demonstrieren zudem, dass D9, der von den einen als  grandioser Vertreter des New African Cinema interpretiert, von anderen  als \u201cjust another racist movie\u201d abqualifiziert wird, gerade deshalb  weltweit so erfolgreich ist, weil er Dichotomien wie \u201creal\u201d &#8211; \u201cfiktiv\u201d,  \u201cdokumentarisch\u201d &#8211; \u201cfiktional\u201d, Identit\u00e4t-Differenz konstruktiv  aufbricht und sich zudem keinem Genre eindeutig zuordnen l\u00e4sst.<\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0<em>District 9<\/em> (<em>D9<\/em>) was released in August 2009,  the film was an immediate box office hit in several countries. This was  much to the surprise of critics, reviewers and bloggers, who seemed  astonished by the fact that a science fiction film with this impact  could originate from South Africa. Internet forum discussions and an  E-Symposium emerged as a response to the film, which continues to be the  subject of controversial discussion.<a name=\"foot_src_1\"><\/a> While  many celebrate the film in relation to the \u2018generic\u2019 genre of Science  Fiction as a promising representative of a thriving African Cinema,  others reject the film on the basis of its socio-political message, as  yet another racist movie about Africa \u2013 with reference to the depiction  of both \u2018the Nigerians\u2019 and the aliens.<a name=\"foot_src_2\"><\/a> In this  article, we would like to move beyond a crudely metaphorical reading of  representation (\u2018the aliens stand for X in reality\u2019), and explore the  degree to which the film foregrounds its own mediality. This focus moves  us beyond a polarizing position that immediately rejects the film as  racist, and allows us to engage with a complex and original text unlike  so many other films that take \u2018Africa\u2019 as their subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli 2011 In\u00a0\u201cYou are not welcome here\u201d. Of post-apartheid negrophobia, and real aliens in Blomkamp\u2019s District 9 (gemeinsam mit Henriette Gunkel). In: darkmatter. in the ruins of imperial culture, No. 6, January\/February 2010 (reprint as article in general issue 7, July 2011, peer reviewed) erl\u00e4utern wir, warum District 9 eine aussergew\u00f6hnliche, aufrichtige Kritik an der [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianekoenig.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}