Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique最新文献

{"title":"In the Beginning: Blackness and the 1960s Creative Nonfiction of Ōe Kenzaburō","authors":"Will Bridges","doi":"10.1215/10679847-3852249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-3852249","url":null,"abstract":"This essay considers the nonfictional writings on black literature and American race relations penned by Nobel laureate Ōe Kenzaburō between the years 1961 (when Ōe attended the Asian-African Writers Conference held in Tokyo) and 1968 (when he delivered a series of speeches in Kinokuniya Hall on American race relations). In these nonfictional musings, Ōe posits an analogous existential dilemma shared by the postwar Japanese and post–civil rights era African-Americans. Ōe's proposed solution to this dilemma—a kind of existential freedom rooted in celebrating ethnic and racial diversity—is highly informed by his reading of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin.","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116900262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Return of the Repressed: Uncanny Spaces of Nostalgia and Loss in Trần Anh Hùng's Cyclo","authors":"C. Robert","doi":"10.1215/10679847-1472006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1472006","url":null,"abstract":"Trần Anh Hung is best known for three films: The Scent of the Green Papaya (1993), Cyclo (1995), and Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000), known as his Vietnam Trilogy. In this article I propose the notion of the return of a repressed, painful, and violent wartime past, which takes form narratively through a meditation on uncanny spaces—spaces of wandering, longing, anxiety, and loss. I argue that Hung's Cyclo represents the return of themes that have been repressed in Vietnamese cinema and literature and in everyday life in general in Vietnam, until recently. Nostalgia and loss can now be expressed in film and literature, which was not possible until the 1990s. This stems from a reevaluation of wartime suffering occurring now, a generation after the end of war in Vietnam in 1975. This also results from a gradual easing of state controls on arts and media in Vietnam in the 1990s. Recent Vietnamese films and literature have begun to focus on the massive human costs and painful aftermath of the war. These are articulated through tropes of mourning, silences, and loss. My hypothesis is that the uncanny occupies a privileged place in contemporary Vietnamese visual and written narratives because of this \"return\" of themes that had been repressed for political reasons since the end of the war. Trần Anh Hung was born in Vietnam in 1962. He and his family left as refugees at the end of the war in 1975. Cyclo , filmed on location in the first large-scale foreign production in Vietnam, marked his return to his birthplace. Hung reembodies his torn Vietnamese identity through montage of spaces of poverty, crime, and loss. The chain-smoking poet, played by Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai, drifts silently through interiors that seemingly bear no relationship to the dangerous, grimy streets outside. I examine the spatial opposition between streets and interiors, and why Hung focuses so strongly on abjection, silences, and failed articulation of desires. The figure of the poor, beautiful woman forced into prostitution to save her family is almost a cliche in Vietnamese fiction—and so is that of her poor young brother, who struggles for survival in a threatening urban underworld. I query whether these familiar narrative tropes of abjection provide new spaces for understanding the shift away from a war-torn society, or whether they replicate a persistent, romantic self-Orientalizing thread in modern Vietnamese fiction.","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133730272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Genealogies of NGO-ness: The Cultural Politics of a Global Buddhist Movement in Contemporary Taiwan","authors":"C. J. Huang","doi":"10.1215/10679847-2009-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2009-006","url":null,"abstract":"Is the concept of the NGO, or nongovernmental organization, a global catchall? This article tries to respond to the globalization of the concept of NGO by tracing the historical and local development of a Taiwanese grassroots Buddhist organization, the Buddhist Tzu Chi (Ciji) Foundation, in the public sphere of Taiwan since the late 1960s, and particularly the controversies surrounding the group's rapid growth during Taiwan's democratization since the late 1980s. The development of the Buddhist group from an unknown grassroots to a global United Nations NGO, as the article will show, attests to the plural genealogies of NGO-ness. In addition, the article argues that the genealogy of Ciji illustrates the nuanced relationship between society and the Taiwan \"state,\" and that Ciji embodies the shifting cultural \"state\" of civil society in Taiwan. The concept of the \"regime of civil morality\" will be introduced for the understanding of the cultural politics of NGO-ness.","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129574268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fractured Identities and Refracted Images: The Neither/Nor of National Imagination in Contemporary Taiwan","authors":"Christopher Lupke","doi":"10.1215/10679847-2009-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2009-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115128324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Engendering Victimhood: Women in Literature of Atrocity","authors":"S. Lin","doi":"10.1215/10679847-2009-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2009-008","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the current state of Taiwanese culture through the project of restoration of history, focusing on a corpus of literary works that represent Taiwan's 2/28 Incident and its aftermath, the White Terror. Post–martial law Taiwan witnessed the birthing of a new nation with burgeoning writings of a new historiography, particularly in the literary field. Writers have re-created scenes and the effects of atrocity in order to fill in the gaps in history as a new Taiwan is being written into existence. In this body of literature, women as victims have clearly been considered the most powerful trope to convey a sense of injustice. By situating my analysis in the larger context of third-world women and their changing roles vis-a-vis tradition during national crises, I argue that the definition of victimhood is, in fact, never readily transparent, and hence equivocal portrayals of women as victims not only constitute a sign of an evolving understanding of Taiwanese history but become a crucial narrative device that helps to avoid the pitfall of trivialization.","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"1865 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129918257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love","authors":"J. Smith","doi":"10.1215/10679847-2008-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2008-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133695410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Guest Editors's Introduction: What's Left of Asia","authors":"Hairong Yan, Daniel Vukovich","doi":"10.1215/10679847-2006-029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-029","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction to a special issue of \"Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique\" on the question of \"What's Left of Asia?\" This essay, co-authored with Yan Hairong, surveys the collected articles within the context of extant work on the meaning and history of the concept of \"Asia\" within area studies and inter-Asian cultural studies. It also grounds such academic work in the context of past imperial/colonial histories of Asia and within the current globalization of capitalism in the region. \"Asia\" remains an inherently problematic concept-metaphor for a radically diverse, discontinuous, and conflicted \"area\" but also remains a term we have to keep using and hopefully re-inventing to meet contemporary intellectual and political needs.","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128841565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Circumventing the Evils of Colonialism: Yanaihara Tadao and Zionist Settler Colonialism in Palestine","authors":"De Boer, C. John","doi":"10.1215/10679847-2006-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127349972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Declaration of Universal Humanity","authors":"J. trSearsLaurie","doi":"10.1215/10679847-13-1-121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-13-1-121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129553006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"For the Record: An Antiwar Protest in Jakarta Days before the Bali Bomb Attacks (A Photo-Essay)","authors":"S. Mandal","doi":"10.1215/10679847-13-1-115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-13-1-115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126137959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}