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...Chu Yiu-Wai © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Importance of Being Chinese: Orientalism Reconfigured in the Age of Global Modernity Chu Yiu-Wai In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity...

...—primarily between China and Japan—made this endeavor difficult. The “contemporary” in this context is simultaneously a critical (or postcolonial) modernity that embraces notions of multiculturalism for “rethinking” Asia and a fractured modernity that does not quite manage to be a break from modern East...

...Alexander G. Weheliye Duke University Press 2003 ‘‘I Am I Be The Subject of Sonic Afro-modernity Alexander G. Weheliye We clamor for the right to opacity for everyone. —Edouard Glissant, Poetics...

...Arif Dirlik Arif Dirlik 2005 The End of Colonialism? The Colonial Modern in the Making of Global Modernity Arif Dirlik Over the last decade, discourses of globalization and postcoloniality have...

...Arif Dirlik Duke University Press 2006 Global Modernity, Spatial Reconfigurations, and Global Health: Perspectives from the People’s Republic of China Arif Dirlik The recent tsunami disaster in South...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2007 “The Aesthetics of Minor Affects”: The Other Modernity Daniel T. O’Hara I take the quotation in my title from the last sentence of Sianne Ngai’s Ugly Feelings. It declares...

... I am grateful to Brian Lennon, Özge Serin, and three anonymous readers of an earlier version of this essay for their helpful suggestions. Phonocentrism and Literary Modernity in Turkey Nergis Ertürk In an article dated September 2...

...Donald E. Pease “The Crisis of Critique in Postcolonial Modernity” situates Michel Foucault's method of genealogical analysis within the history of critique, examines the usage to which David Scott has put Foucault to reconfigure the problem-space of postcolonial studies, and explains how Scott's...

... corporate needs. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Transnationalization and the University: The Perspective of Global Modernity Arif Dirlik This essay takes up an important challenge facing higher educa- tion today...

...Yu Keping © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Unless otherwise indicated, all translations are my own. The Developmental Logic of Chinese Culture under Modernization and Globalization Yu Keping Globalization...

...Q. S. Tong; Xiaoyi Zhou Duke University Press 2002 Criticism and Society: The Birth of the Modern Critical Subject in China Q. S. Tong and Xiaoyi Zhou Over the past ten years or so, there have been repeated calls in China...

...Sebastian Veg This article attempts to bring a new perspective to the debate on Chinese modernism and, in so doing, to reflect on the idea of modernism itself. Rather than opposing European “high modernists” and an early twentieth-century Chinese literature defined by Enlightenment and nineteenth...

... a viable modern form of public ceremony that incorporates the transcendental and supernatural into fully immanent forms that are never pro forma but ever disruptive of habit and complacency. The truth of violence for Yeats, as for Wagner or Badiou, is thus not any supernatural transcendence but immortal...

... in fashioning Premsagar ’s Hindi as a language articulated in its spatiotemporal imaginary. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Premsagar (1810) and Orientalist Narratives of the “Invention” of Modern Hindi Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar...

... history identifies recurring patterns, salient concerns, and discursive frameworks. It highlights the persistence of ideas about Irish exceptionalism, the dominance of a modernization narrative, and a continuing problem with conceptualizing the dynamics of transforming sexual subjectivities. This survey...

...Nikky Lin; Shu-jung Chen Taiwanese literature has long been closely related to social movements. In fact, Taiwan New Literature (modern Taiwanese literature) itself was born out of social protest. Taiwan’s longstanding political situation of authoritarian rule has prompted the island’s writers...

...Wang Xiaoming; Lennet Daigle In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the earliest of the modern Chinese revolutionaries were looking beyond the creation of a new polity to the creation of a new kind of person and new ways of living together. At a moment when the political legacy...

... of the psychological romance, the modern psychomachia, of narration amid the personae of character, narrator (and what kind of narrator), implicated author, and a newly activated and yet indulgently consuming reader, participates in a widespread game of aesthetic interpellation that leads to what contemporary...

...Richard Bourke Duke University Press 2004 ‘‘Imperialism’’ and ‘‘Democracy’’ in Modern Ireland, 1898–2002 Richard Bourke ‘‘Violence in Ireland is the result of British Imperialism, of the British connection and the British...

...Lindsay Waters Lindsay Waters 2005 Is Now the Time for Paul de Man? An Address to Members of the Modern Language Association on the Twentieth Anniversary of Paul de Man’s Death Lindsay Waters And so let us then—by light...