... colonial abject parody national literature ...

... this reading of “Pegasus,” the chapter shows multilayered ways in which Japanese-language writing by Koreans takes place in the interstices of national literature and is marked by ambivalence that confounds the desire for a bounded national literature.  colonial abject parody national literature ...

... In this chapter, Celiany Rivera-Velázquez and Beliza Torres Narváez argue that Javier Cardona’s Ah mén parodies and critiques Caribbean and Latin American moralistic discourses that pathologize men who do not conform to normative gender expectations. They focus on particular scenes...

... affair. In these stories, the coming and going of queer sexualities are inconspicuous, nonchalant, and even detached. The imagery of the public toilet, an oft-used queer symbol in Cui’s writing, surfaces here again to provide a duly queer parody of the solemn. queer storytelling urban life...

... Peter Falk described being drawn to the character Lt. Columbo precisely for this quality: “the basic thrust of a guy appearing less than he actually is.” By focusing on the progeny and mutations after its original run (including its reboot, film parodies, tributes, and tie-ins), this chapter...

... that the “problem” of the (white, middle-class) woman’s aging can be treated as a political issue for artmaking (as in the theoretically informed work of Mary Kelly) or, alternatively, in the case of a brilliantly intuitive artist such as Sherman, risk the reduction of the subject to parody or social satire...

... This chapter critically surveys the mid-1990s moment in which the populist irreverence of the Young British Artist phenomenon attracted attention, especially through the 1997 Sensation exhibition, even though it was not widely understood that the self-parodying Britishness put on display...

... This roundtable opens part 4 of the collection, “Inhabiting the Asiatic,” which responds to many of the previous sections’ critiques by considering how players and game makers inhabit Asiatic medias to transform, parody, and queer the traditional and imperial conventions of games and dominant...

... and stories by Bobby Holcomb, André Marere, Cronos, THS!, Alexandre Moeava Ata, and Albert Wendt, this chapter explores how antinuclear artists and writers from Tahiti and Samoa have addressed this plague. These artists stand out for their choice to talk about death and diseases by turning to humor, parody...

... to the photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi and Jin-me Yoon, the chapter argues that their photographic citations of 1920s- and 1930s-era landscape art parody its investment in whiteness during a heightened period of Asian immigrant restriction. Disidentifying with the settler romanticization of the landscape, Tseng’s...