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Chinese-Language Memories under the Conflagration of War 战火下的汉语记忆

PRISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966707

Ko Chia-Cian, Sun Pingyu

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Becoming Semi-wild 成为半野马

PRISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966737

C. Rojas

{"title":"Becoming Semi-wild","authors":"C. Rojas","doi":"10.1215/25783491-9966737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966737","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article borrows Juno Salazar Parreñas's concept of the “semi-wild” as an entry point into an analysis of Malaysian Chinese author Zhang Guixing's novels Elephant Herd (1998) and Monkey Cup (2000). Set in Sarawak, both works feature a relatively simple plotline interwoven with an intricate web of flashbacks. More specifically, each work's primary plotline features an ethnically Chinese protagonist searching for a relative who has disappeared into the rainforest, while also becoming romantically interested in a young Indigenous woman whom he meets during his quest. In each case, a fascination with the relationship between humans and Sarawak's various “semi-wild” flora and fauna is paralleled by an attention to the relationship between the region's ethnic Chinese and its various Indigenous peoples—and particularly two subgroups of Sarawak's Dayak ethnicity, the “Sea Dayaks” (also known as the Iban) and the “Land Dayaks” (who are often simply called “Dayaks”). Each work uses a set of quasi-anthropomorphized plants and animals (including silk-cotton trees, Nepenthes pitcher plants, elephants, crocodiles, rhinoceroses, and orangutans) to reflect on humans' relationship to the local ecosystem, while simultaneously using Indigenous peoples to reflect on the way in which overlapping colonial legacies have shaped the region's sociopolitical structures.","PeriodicalId":33692,"journal":{"name":"PRISM","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77721755","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}

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Urban Life in Two 1920s Sino-Malay Poems 两首20世纪20年代华人马来诗歌中的都市生活

PRISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966747

T. Hoogervorst

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Of Wind, Soil, and Water 风、土和水

PRISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966647

D. Wang

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Inter-imperial, Ecological Interpretations of the “Five Coolies” Myth in Penang and Medan 槟城与棉兰“五苦力”神话的跨帝国生态学解读

PRISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966667

Nicholas Y. H. Wong

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Counter-discourse Counter-discourse

PRISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966727

Boon Eng Khor

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PRISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966657

Shuang Shen

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Ethnic Loyalty versus Spring Fancy 民族忠诚vs春天幻想

PRISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966757

Josh Stenberg

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Iridescent Corners 彩虹色的角落

PRISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966697

Brian Bernards

{"title":"Iridescent Corners","authors":"Brian Bernards","doi":"10.1215/25783491-9966697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966697","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Starting in the 1970s, flash fiction developed into an outsized literary practice relative to other Sinophone forms in Singapore. Flash fiction's smallness and brevity cohere with the fast pace of urban Singaporean life and transformation of its cityscape, the compartmentalized relationship between the nation's four official languages, the marginality of literary spaces and challenges to maintaining literature as a profession, and Southeast Asia's relative obscurity as a world literary center (with Singapore as a small but important connective hub). Taking Yeng Pway Ngon's fleeting scene of Speakers' Corner (a flash platform of “gestural politics”) as a point of departure, this article charts a short history of Sinophone flash and its relationship to literary community building in Singapore through integrative readings of representative works by Jun Yinglü, Ai Yu, Wong Meng Voon, Xi Ni Er, and Wu Yeow Chong, recognizing their formal and thematic intersections not as “big ideas in tiny spaces” but as iridescent corners that traverse the state's cultural, political, and geographical out-of-bounds (OB) markers. Rather than privileging professional mastery, their works trace flash fiction's iridescent literariness and worldliness to hyperlocality (the physical and literary “corners” they illuminate), compressed temporality, a participatory culture of authorship, and a spirit of amateurism. This amateurism is derived not from a sense of linguistic underdevelopment or technical lack among these authors, but from their passionate and vulnerable engagement with the flash form, as well as the dissident moral conscience of their thematically and stylistically intersecting critiques of Singapore's sociopolitical OB markers.","PeriodicalId":33692,"journal":{"name":"PRISM","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81467659","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}

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Off-Center Articulations 偏心连接

PRISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1215/25783491-9966687

C. Chan

{"title":"Off-Center Articulations","authors":"C. Chan","doi":"10.1215/25783491-9966687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966687","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Recent studies on Singapore Chinese literature have employed analytical lenses such as the Sinophone and postloyalism, which are exogenous to the historical and everyday experiences in the region that produced the texts. This article proposes using the lens of the Chinese-educated to bridge local self-understandings with extralocal modes of interpretation, in order to better illuminate place-specific writing practices. As a salient category of both lived experience and analysis by local researchers, the category of the Chinese-educated occasions a form of “off-center articulation” that maintains strategic distance from Sinophone studies while also enriching the field's conceptual repertoire. Specifically, this analytical perspective highlights how literary representations of social class play a significant role, alongside language and ethnicity, in registering the historical diversity of the Singapore Chinese community. Through examining Singaporean Chinese writer Chia Joo Ming's novel Exile or Pursuit (2015), this article reinterprets the novel's gallery of characters and depictions of interpersonal relations to elicit fading memories of socioeconomic divides and gaps in cultural attainment among ethnic Chinese Singaporeans and their migrant predecessors. It ends by charting future directions for Southeast Asian Chinese literary studies that collectively track a broader locus of “Chinese-educated” literary and cultural practices, and that promote critical inter-referencing within the region.","PeriodicalId":33692,"journal":{"name":"PRISM","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83897437","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}

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