Search Results for anachronism

... with the state to condemn Mitsubishi, Taiwan invokes neither the state nor the nation to combat colonial capitalism, drawing instead on anachronism and the leitmotif of kin killing. While tracking the play's counter‐nationalist turn, this article's analysis shows that Li revitalizes past events grounded in world...

... is the author of The Dream of a Contemporary Ayuthaya: Angkhan Kalayanaphong’s Poetics of Dissent, Aesthetic Nationalism, and Thai Literary Modernity (2009). Her book project “Ghostly Desires” examines how Buddhist-­coded anachronisms of haunting figure...

.... The magnetic words (pioneers, westward expansion, settlers, American Dream, etc.) sepa- rate out the dross (queer sexuality, anachronism, women, illicit reproduc- tion, dermal calcification, karma, and religiosity), leaving behind, or making invisible, actual humans who cannot cross a threshold into the PPDA...

... into a dis- cussion of the problem of love in a “transitional society,” where “transition” appears as the temporal anachronism in historicist terms. Qi insisted that the critique of Wang could not be based upon the view...

... as that is possi- ble. Yet even such a conventional historical move away from anachronism is difficult. In this beautifully argued essay that calls into question many histo- riographic conventions of contemporary Heian studies, Yoda systematically...

..., the conversation focuses upon Berlin theatergoers’ dis- dain for anachronism or any divergence from proper time, place, or person- hood: “Such meticulousness in the preservation of illusion on the part of the general management extends not merely...

... constituted by a combination of biopolitical and sovereign power. In Korea, they have been articulated with a politics of the new. During the financial crisis, so-­called violent labor came to embody anachronisms. Laborers cling- ing to the class...

.... In interwar Japan, the gure of the untimely was reduced to the uncanny — a ghostly reminder of the past — a dangerous anachronism that challenged the settled boundaries of the present, a spectral, irrational presence at the heart of a rational...

... on aesthetics, philosophy, and global events. 5 Some of Qiu's Buddhist-inflected interpretations of his own work were presented as rationales ex post facto and changed over the years. This kind of anachronism can be seen as opportunistic or false, but as I have argued elsewhere and below, it is in fact quite...

...” in the face of a moribund socialist system of economic and social planning. However, one should not assume that planning faces a certain demise after 1979 or that the planning mentality is necessarily an anachronism in the age of the “socialist...

... axis of the premodern map of tenderness wherein the most poignant emotions are lived out in the public realms of political loyalty, homosocial friendship, and filial devotion. In its affective illiteracy and anachronism, our scholarship...

... immediately available response is to deny or erase how it is often a central, defining characteristic of the narrators, since this could not be accepted, and would be seen instead in cultured cir- cles as an anachronism not suitable to the modern...

... and religious inspiration (Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon in colonial times and also post- independence until 1972. When speaking of the colonial period, I use Ceylon to avoid anachronism This article is a brief exploration of community formation through and by the ebbs and flows shaping imperial island...

... A. , Szwaja Lynn , and Ybarra-Frausto Tomas , 257 – 85 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Nagel Alexander , and Wood Christopher S. 2010 . Anachronic Renaissance . New York : Zone Books . Nelson Roger . 2018 . “ ‘The Work the Nation Depends On’: Landscapes...

...-an unfinished project- always in the melting pot and never melted. But it is precisely these medical and civic failures, these ‘‘contaminations” of an imagined original, these congruent anachronisms of native and modern, that make possible...

... fully responding to this complexity, far from being an anachronism, should pose vital issues for global debate. Efforts at such a response in South Korea today are centered on what is known as the “national literature movement,” though...

... anachronism.” In “Specters of Marx,” Jacques Derrida maintains that Fukuyama’s arrival has not arrived, and cannot ever quite arrive: “Those who abandon themselves to that dis- course with the jubilation of youthful enthusiasm, they look like latecomers...

... records, then in the jostling anachronisms and spatial juxtapositions that are seen on every street; positions 12:3 Winter 2004 752 that is, history is inscribed in spatial relations.”56 In this regard, the interven...

... in 1922 — see Pekka Korhonen, “The Geography of Okakura Tenshin,” Japan Review no. 13 (2001), 110 — the opposition, as such, is an anachronism. See Sun Ge, “How Does Asia Mean? (Part I Inter-Asia Cultural Studies no. 1 (2000): 15...

... Abjected in the realm of desire, female impersonators are also tempo- rally abjected as an anachronism of a distant past. Effeminate entertainers did have a stronger social presence prior to the twentieth century, as the literature from the period...