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Who owns the trauma blanket? Tracing Kader Attia's ghost and the "couverture de survie" in transit

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dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Comparative Literature
dc.contributor.kuauthorMacDonald, Megan Catherine
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:01:19Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn 2016 French-Algerian artist Kader Attia filed a lawsuit against the French rappers Dosseh and Nekfeu, accusing them of plagiarizing Attia's 2007 installation piece Ghost in their music video "Putain d'epoque." Looking closely at both artists' work, I ask: what is at stake in Attia's claims of plagiarism, especially for an artist who traffics in bricolage, memory, and, in his own words, "les blessures" of history? I argue that, with the current refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and elsewhere, the trauma blanket (couverture de survie) is an object that travelsand appears, without plagiarism or copyrightin both real life and artistic productions depicting Mediterranean crossings.
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dc.description.volume22
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17409292.2018.1475366
dc.identifier.eissn1740-9306
dc.identifier.issn1740-9292
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2018.1475366
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/8213
dc.identifier.wos435671100015
dc.keywordsKader Attia
dc.keywordsMediterranean
dc.keywordsRefugee
dc.keywordsFrance
dc.keywordsContemporary art
dc.keywordsTrauma blanket
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofContemporary French And Francophone Studies
dc.subjectLiterature
dc.subjectRomance literature
dc.titleWho owns the trauma blanket? Tracing Kader Attia's ghost and the "couverture de survie" in transit
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