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On the Gaze
Dubai and Its New Cosmopolitanisms
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Artikel-Nr:
9781682753460
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
18.07.2023
Seiten:
137
Autor:
Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Gewicht:
145 g
Format:
203x129x7 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Adrianne Kalfopoulou is a poet, essayist, and scholar. Her base is in Athens, Greece where she taught for many years at institutions of higher education. She has served as a poetry and nonfiction faculty mentor in the low residency Mile-High MFA program at Regis University, and was the McGee Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Davidson College for 2020-2021.
"ON THE GAZE is an exploration of cosmopolitanism and its 21st-century manifestation in Dubai. "What do I see? Neon contours of a building at night. A near-empty walkway with a flashing monitor that reads: "Dubai Digital Park"; in the morning I see a concrete expanse of flat apartment rooftops amidst a humid, sand-infused horizon, the steaming heat of the desert temperature in August. Plasma screens along a walkway show various scenes of people eating, exercising, shopping, the only people I see. I am in an area called Silicon Oasis. Dubai, a city where 70% of the world is within an 8-hour plane flight from its airport, was built to represent the geographical factuality of its being a crossroads between East and West. A contemporary city of spectacle and the spectacular, it caters to all manner of the gaze"