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The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 505–507.
Published: 01 May 2024
...John T. Sidel The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte . By Vicente L. Rafael . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2022 . xi, 173 pp. ISBN: 9781478015185 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 With the election of Rodrigo Duterte...
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The Sovereign Trickster
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 February 2019
... focused on Europe, Mbembe has written about postcolonial conditions in ways that make critical use of Foucault. Drawing from their writings, this article situates Duterte as a “sovereign trickster” who seeks to dominate death while monopolizing laughter. Finally, this article speculates on the comparative...
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The Munitions Worker as Trickster in Wartime Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 655–674.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Benjamin Uchiyama Abstract Following Japan's invasion of China in 1937, Japanese bureaucratic and intellectual elites constructed a volatile image of the munitions worker as trickster. Within this discursive realm, the worker became an object of hope, fear, and rage for the guardians...
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Tricksters and Cosmopolitans: Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 227–229.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Amy Tang Tricksters and Cosmopolitans: Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production . By Rei Magosaki . New York : Fordham University Press . 2016 . vii, 157 pp. ISBN: 9780823271306 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jātaka in Thailand
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 481–482.
Published: 01 May 2019
... context. First, he is compared with trickster figures such as Sri Thanonchai and Siang Miang. Bowie surmises that the trickster motif might once have been widespread and that this caused the court in central Thailand to depict Jujaka as a simple evil-doer. She also assumes that the Jātaka as a whole may...
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Editorial Foreword 76.3 (August 2017)
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 571–574.
Published: 01 August 2017
... enjamin U chiyama ’s “The Munitions Worker as Trickster in Wartime Japan,” which traces the ways that a particular sort of laborer was alternately celebrated and mocked in wartime texts such as comic strips, newspaper editorials, and satirical commentaries. Drawing on comparative and theoretical work...
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A Careful Village: Comedic Dialogues and Linguistic Modernity in China's Tibet
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 453–474.
Published: 01 May 2018
... faith. Tibet has a long history of satirizing clerics and persons in power, from Skal ldan rgya mtsho (1607–77), a bla ma from A mdo who composed songs chastising clerics for their impure ways (Sujata 2005 ), to Tibetan tricksters, like the famous Uncle Ston pa ( a khu ston pa ) who often targeted...
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Folk Tales from Kammu-III: Pearls of Kammu Literature
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 893.
Published: 01 August 1985
... of culture heroes, and tricksters through etiologies, novellas, and animal fables, to jokes and children's rigmaroles. This skillful narrator also relates another set of tales distinguished from the former on functional rather than thematic grounds, namely, totem tales (designed to keep the clans marrying...
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Lies That Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1411–1412.
Published: 01 November 2008
... trickster figures, official media, and ethnographic encounters, to mention merely a few. The breadth and depth of her research is one of her study's strongest features. A common topic in the contemporary Chinese public sphere concerns the concept of harmony. Colonizing a range of discursive spaces from...
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Himalayan Tribal Tales: Oral Tradition and Culture in the Apatani Valley
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 632–634.
Published: 01 May 2010
... then surveys the Apatani system of oral narrative genres, analyzing its recurring themes and motifs, including the particularly fascinating trickster Abo Tani, who embodies Apatani identity and whose story “is one that Apatanis tell themselves about themselves” (p. 248). After a quarter-century...
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Japan's Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 954–955.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the consternation of a public increasingly exhorted to embrace thrift. Uchiyama casts the munitions worker as a “trickster-like figure” (p. 67) who used his position for cultural and economic gain but did not seek to undermine the system within which he operated. In chapter 3, Uchiyama explores how the returned...
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Transforming Monkey: Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 181–182.
Published: 01 February 2019
... demonstrates that “[i]n many of these cases, the image of Sun Wukong is used as self-representation, and accordingly the monkey's story is revised and the image changed or even manipulated the political agenda of the adaptors” (p. 7). In his rewritings, Sun Wukong thus is turned from the clever trickster...
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Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851–1911
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1091–1092.
Published: 01 November 2014
... at the heart of her study. She offers a solid analysis of how this trickster figure resists many late nineteenth-century stereotypes about Chinese men, including their cunning, savagery, and effeminacy. But she sets up a bit of a straw man here—and throughout the book—when she makes statements...
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Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 547–548.
Published: 01 May 1995
... dedicates this book to his students, and he is very much the professor with a political narrative in mind. Key figures in this narrative are Confucius (formulator of the "basic grammar of politics The First Emperor of Qin (the bad 548 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES counterexample), Zhuge Liang (the trickster...
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Media and Politics in Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 528–529.
Published: 01 May 1999
...." In the first part, Susan Pharr BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 529 discusses the history and contemporary status of media and, in attempting to unravel their role, posits that they might act as tricksters unpredictable, coming from an unfixed social position, mocking at one time and praising at another. D. Eleanor Westney...
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The Myths of Narasimha and Vāmana: Two Avatars in Cosmological Perspective
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 201–202.
Published: 01 February 1993
... general motifs, four of which emphasize the idea of liminality of ambivalence, of being on the boundary and mediating between opposing groups. The author's original expectation was that the motific analysis would testify to Visnu's character as "very much the trickster, liminal and mediating" (p. 155...
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The Discourse and Politics of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 202–203.
Published: 01 February 1993
... general motifs, four of which emphasize the idea of liminality of ambivalence, of being on the boundary and mediating between opposing groups. The author's original expectation was that the motific analysis would testify to Visnu's character as "very much the trickster, liminal and mediating" (p. 155...
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Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 45 (1): 171–172.
Published: 01 November 1985
... is presented in part 2. Feldhaus compares this concept to the theme of "holy folly" in such other religions as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Her discussion is relevant to the ongoing debate concerning the juxtaposition of seemingly opposite trickster-transformer-culture hero roles in a single personality...
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The Deeds of God in Rddhipur
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 45 (1): 170–171.
Published: 01 November 1985
... in understanding the personality of RauJ is presented in part 2. Feldhaus compares this concept to the theme of "holy folly" in such other religions as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Her discussion is relevant to the ongoing debate concerning the juxtaposition of seemingly opposite trickster-transformer-culture...
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Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 892–893.
Published: 01 August 1985
... instruction and sanctions; and a portrayal of the art of storytelling. The scope and character of Kammu oral literature is, of course, the major focus. For fiction, any recognized storyteller must be able to recite materials from ten main categories, ranging from myths, tales of culture heroes, and tricksters...
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