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Victoria Adukwei Bulley
VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and has held artistic residencies internationally in the US, Brazil and at the V&A Museum in London. A Complete Works and Instituto Sacatar fellow, her pamphlet Girl B (Akashic) forms part of the 2017 New-Generation African Poets series. She is a doctoral student at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is the recipient of a Technē studentship for doctoral research in Creative Writing.

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On Water

ESSAY

Issue No. 29

VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY

ESSAY

Issue No. 29

& we say to her what have you done with our kin that you swallowed? & she says that was ages ago, you’ve drunk...

INTERVIEW

Issue No. 26

Interview with Saidiya Hartman

VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY

INTERVIEW

Issue No. 26

The first time I encountered Saidiya Hartman, she was a voice in salt., an award-winning play by artist and...

The CCTV New Year’s gala broadcast, known in Mandarin as Chunwan, is probably the most massive media event you’ve never heard of: with an audience of 700 million, it has few rivals for sheer reach A China Central Television institution since 1982, the show provides an annual bromide of light-hearted comedy, music, and choreographed patriotism on the eve of the country’s most important festival In a nation reeling from frenetic development and riven by social tensions, it’s a reminder of the cultural ties that bind (most of) China together This year, Chunwan rings in the Year of the Rabbit on the evening of 2 February But even in China, this throwback to a bygone era of modernist spectacle is not immune to larger shifts in the way we consume media The show is losing its younger viewers: according to a recent online poll on Sinacom, 50 percent of respondents who saw the show called it ‘bad,’ while only 13 percent said it was ‘good’ It seems that colourful ethnic minority maidens singing about social harmony just don’t cut it any more for the post-‘80s generation Alarmed over declining ratings, broadcasters have turned to the internet for the first time this year to infuse new life into the old Chunwan beast, planning to draw several musical performers from the online ‘grassroots’ CCTV and other Chinese media have long had a troubled relationship with the 380 million ‘netizens’ who comprise China’s online population Of course, this comes as no surprise to those familiar with the overall status of internet speech in China A small army of censors regularly scrub references to sensitive topics like Falun Gong, Tibet and Liu Xiaobo from bulletin boards Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, among other social networking platforms, are blocked: in this visualisation of global Facebook connections, there’s a conspicuous hole where China should be Historically, censors have also intervened to halt the careers of apparently harmless internet celebrities, which China produces in spades With a massive online population isolated by the so-called Great

CONTRIBUTOR

October 2018

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

CONTRIBUTOR

October 2018

VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and...

Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s ‘Heads of the Colored People’

BOOK REVIEW

October 2018

VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY

BOOK REVIEW

October 2018

Somewhere on the internet is a two-hour video of a lecture by the late writer and filmmaker Kathleen Collins, author of the short story...

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The Story I'm Thinking Of

Jonathan Gibbs

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April 2013

There were seven of us sat around the table. Seven grown adults, sat around the table. It was late. We...

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Return After Earthquake

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December 2011

although left for months my house is still standing here on terra firma branches broken by snow fallen into...

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April 2015

Heavy

Chris Newlove Horton

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April 2015

It is a two lane road somewhere in North America. The car is pulled onto the shoulder with the...

 

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