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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 144–162.
Published: 01 May 2023
... to leave the fact of the bombings in a colonial past. [email protected] © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Science War atomic bomb postcolonial erasure In early October 1945, three researchers from Kyoto University took the train to Hiroshima. Pak Ch’ŏlchae, Ree T'aegyu...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 222–224.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the narrative thread of the manuscript. And that's a thread that Fuller weaves very expertly, moving with intellectual nimbleness through the century and ably mastering a large set of very disparate sources, tracing the modern's epistemic erasures up to what he calls “the epistemic destruction of the Cultural...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 661–687.
Published: 01 August 2014
... among ideologues of the Arya Samaj and other such groups, where there was both an erasure and a representational heightening of Dalit female desire. However, they also provide one with avenues to recover in part Dalit women's aspirations in this period. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (3): 570–573.
Published: 01 August 2022
... and identity in the face of both Islamic revivalism and state coercion, she describes how images of dancing and smiling Uyghurs alienate some members of the diaspora community. The final chapter, “Erasure and Trauma,” discusses the current situation in Xinjiang. As a Uyghur who monitors news about...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 761–763.
Published: 01 August 2015
... personhood and of the erasure of the Korean past and tradition, are applicable to the beliefs and orientation of the Korean churches. Although Korean Christianity as a whole has historically been associated with modernity, Korean Christian culture, as it has come to be indigenized and “Koreanized...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 584–587.
Published: 01 May 2018
.... xxi, 9). Larasati navigates conflictive continuities—potent court and village dances versus state-constructed replicas, and naming genocidal history versus state erasure of this history. 2 Of interest to performance, postcolonial, and Indonesian studies scholars, as well as performing artists...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 292–293.
Published: 01 February 2014
.... The author does not find revenge to be the most salient feature of the Khmer moral landscape, as suggested by others. She notes rather that erasure and the social recourse to amoral subjectivities are the important frameworks that ease the past into the present, smoothing over the fault lines of collective...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 279–280.
Published: 01 February 2018
... of a populist Hindu neo-fascist government that is committed to the erasure of minority difference. ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 235–236.
Published: 01 February 2015
... ethnographic observation in family courts in Kolkata and Dhaka, she considers the possible occlusions and erasures in mandates to produce commensurability between intimate acts and the language of the law. Scholarly attention to sexual politics in India is important in the aftermath of the Supreme Court...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1208–1210.
Published: 01 November 2010
...: “what happened in the Cultural Revolution was not the erasure of gender and sexuality from public . . . discourse, but a shifting of gender parameters along political lines,” with masculinity being revolutionary and femininity counterrevolutionary (p. 23). As is obvious, I do not share all...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 914–916.
Published: 01 August 2010
.... The title lays out its concerns: Japan, cinema, and history, and in particular how history is constructed through film in Japan. In the introduction and periodically thereafter, these terms appear as [Japan], [film], and [history], bracketed as if under erasure, the terms themselves and all they signify...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 822–823.
Published: 01 August 2016
... in twentieth-century China makes this history visible for the first time. The erasure of concubines from the Guomindang Civil Code became an opportunity for concubines to tell their stories through police and court records. On the one hand, concubines engaged with the court through the mediation of jurists...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1208–1210.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Schüssler Fiorenza, for instance, recounts the high cost to Judaism and to human civilization of the near erasure of Miriam, sister of Moses and Aaron, from the Hebrew Jewish scripture and tradition, one becomes aware of the importance of feminist perspectives for a hermeneutics of retrieval and recovery...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 787–788.
Published: 01 August 2021
... representations: they must be seen as poor and vulnerable, while also empowered and market-savvy, with limited ability to shape their own narrative. In her ethnography, Huang's attention to these young women works to undo some of this erasure by focusing on their rich and complex lives and words. The second...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1492–1494.
Published: 01 November 2008
... suffering and indecision of Devdas as metaphor. Ali Mir carefully charts the decline of a social-critical voice in Hindi lyrics toward “escapist fantasies and commodity fetishism played out in chimerical dreamscapes” (p. 217), while Cecelia Cossio observes a more positive emendation, the erasure...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 740–742.
Published: 01 November 2023
... (89) that reduced Indians to “natives,” whereas Venkataswami “peopled” his narratives with “vernacular abundance,” acknowledging his numerous relatives as resourceful informers. His biography of his father M. Nagloo (Nagaya) restored him as one of the four founders of the Nagpur city, refusing erasure...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 877–879.
Published: 01 August 2011
... (an important theme throughout the essays, see especially pp. 214, 231, 246, 260, 266), Professor Markovits ruefully remarks, “The erasure from the historical record of a group which basically represented indigenous agency in the economic field results…in the return to a strangely ‘Orientalist’ reading...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 490–491.
Published: 01 May 2024
... occasionally and uneasily in literature, newspapers, and other narratives from the time, except for Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi (226). The chapter ends with a sober reminder of the contemporary dangers of these acts of erasure and forgetting. The book's exploration of plague in India echoes many...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 254–255.
Published: 01 February 2017
... and performance related to the production of Thangmi identity—together with an erasure of the nature of relations with non-Thangmi groups and institutions, such as the Nepali state—has led to a hyper-ethnicized narrative that does not quite serve the Thangmi cause. The “Other,” without which a “Self” cannot exist...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1288–1290.
Published: 01 November 2010
...), Markovits ruefully remarks, “The erasure from the historical record of a group which basically represented indigenous agency in the economic field results … in the return to a strangely ‘Orientalist’ reading of the trajectory of Indian society under colonial rule” (pp. 263–64). Such a remark is nothing less...
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