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...Bliss Cua Lim 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Spectral Times: The Ghost Film As Historical Allegory Bliss Cua Lim Ghosts call our calendars into question. The temporality of haunting, through which events and people return from the limits of time...

...Margaret Hillenbrand Duke University Press 2006 The National Allegory Revisited: Writing Private and Public in Contemporary Taiwan Margaret Hillenbrand The idea for this article began some time ago when I gave a presentation on questions...

...Xudong Zhang 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Shanghai Nostalgia: Postrevolutionary Allegories in Wang Anyi’s Literary Production in the 1990s Xudong Zhang Prologue: The City at a Standstill In Zhang Ailing’s now classic 1943 short story “Sealed Off ” (“Fengsuo...

... ) and the unresolved debate over Frederic Jameson’s statement that “all third-world texts are necessarily . . . national allegories.” Kim’s “spellbinding” refers to the dual impossibilities faced by postcolonial Korean writers in Japan, who can neither maintain a distance from the Japanese language nor take full...

... politics? Reading select Sinophone literary texts as allegories of area studies, in this case the Sinitic script as the fetish object, further illuminates the imperative to defetishize the area and bring race squarely into area studies. References Ashcroft Bill Griffiths Gareth Tiffin...

... Margaret Hillenbrand argues forcefully in “The National Allegory Revisited: Writing Public and Private in Con- temporary Taiwan” that Fredric Jameson’s allegorical mode starts to mean something rather different in the work of Taiwan writer Zhu...

...,” is not furnished in advance by common sense, or by received ideas. A meaning has to fit an image, an image has to fit a meaning, and their fit is not given in advance. Such is the work of the allegorist reading allegories. Supple, deliberated, fluent...

... of meaning and perform the pedagogical function for the pre- sent. In this process, a fictional text about personal survival is appropriated, as a Jamesonian “national allegory into the metanarrative of the nation’s cultural survival...

... published story, “The Dancing Girl” [“Maihime”] (1890), indeed was a sig- nificant intervention in the transformation of literature under way in the mid-Meiji decades. In contrast to the strained allegories of Meiji political positions 10:2© 2002by...

... possible experiences. Rather, it is and takes place as a linguistic event in which the evanescent “originary history” (Urgeschichte) performs or takes form in time as allegory. Indeed, for Benjamin, truth is always historical, and allegory is its...

... allegories that “make incon- gruous use of the vocabulary of the supernatural to articulate historical injustice, referring to ‘social reality’ by recourse to the undead.”35 In Lim’s analysis, the temporality of colonial modernity rests...

... in state subjectivity, the subject’s “accession to nationality” is resentful because in Ogai’s¯ literature (literature is the site where desire is fully played out according to this critical convention), as in his politics, the national allegory...

... is Tagore’s desire to refashion an erotic economy of love, conceptualized not only as a culturally specific idiom but also as a universal humanist allegory of community. This erotic economy was not limited to the register of emo- tion but open...

... of Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945–1970 (2000). Wynn Wilcox, an assistant professor of history and non-Western cultures at Western Con- necticut State University, is working on myth and allegory in Vietnamese...

..., and Park Kwang-su do not always comply with the scope of national allegories previously conceived to be intractable and incontestable. With transnational cultural and capital flows and newly refigured cosmopolitanism permeating the youth cultures...

... or forced her into prostitution. She sacri ces herself out of love for him, a love we cannot be sure he reciprocates, or at least not visibly so. This suggests that the work of Hùng could be read as an allegory.18 Against an allegorical reading...

... to a political allegory (Jameson 1986: 69) that glosses over the local environmental constitution of the camps. My analysis of Tales of Dingxi Orphanage, Yang s second major volume on the theme of famine but one less attributable to the underlying logic of political persecution of dissent, agrees with Veg...

... individual destiny is always an allegory of the embattled situations of the public third-world culture and soci- ety.”15 Jameson’s politicization of all third-world cultural productions, how- ever, does little justice to the eminent between...

... allegories.27 Jaffrey’s first book, Invitation to Indian Cooking, is most clearly haunted by the strains of exilic poignancy, telling as it does the story of gustatory and familial loss, longing, and (partial) return through the ceremonies of gendered...

... examples of a collective “obsession with China.”13 Pai’s Crystal Boys, whose Chinese title (Niezi) literally translates as “bad sons,” has been interpreted time and again as an allegory of the rivalry between the authoritative, unrelenting...