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Literature as Medium: The Development and Cultural Space of New Worker Literature
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 451–471.
Published: 01 May 2023
... labor. Although seen as marginal by many, new worker literature is of great cultural value for contemporary China. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 new worker literature Picun Literature Group contemporary literature...
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Cultivating Citizens: Suzhi (Quality) Discourse in the PRC
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 523–535.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., to new, “postsocialist” forms of state governance and social control, and to contemporary processes of citizenship. This essay first provides some background discussion of the historical development and contemporary significance of suzhi discourse in China and briefly reviews existing literature relating...
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The Return of the Repressed: Uncanny Spaces of Nostalgia and Loss in Trần Anh Hùng's Cyclo
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 389–415.
Published: 01 February 2012
... Vietnamese films and literature have begun to focus on the massive human costs and painful aftermath of the war. These are articulated through tropes of mourning, silences, and loss. My hypothesis is that the uncanny occupies a privileged place in contemporary Vietnamese visual and written narratives because...
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Nakai Masakazu and the Cinematic Imperative
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 483–515.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Philip Kaffen In 1950 Nakai Masakazu, the vice librarian of Japan’s new National Diet Library, and philosopher trained in aesthetics at Kyoto Imperial University, published an essay on cinema and contemporary aesthetics. He saw the developments of the past half century as a massive uprooting...
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Rethinking Feminism in Colonial Korea: Kang Kyǒngae and 1930s Socialist Women's Literature
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 947–985.
Published: 01 November 2013
... women’s literature, accounts for some important
continuities as well as ruptures between the two groups of women writers.
I then move on to a close reading of Kang’s novella Salt. Read against the
contemporary patriarchal glorification of women’s...
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A Taste of Class: Manuals for Becoming Woman
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 489–521.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Stephanie Hemelryk Donald; Yi Zheng This discussion addresses the making of woman as postsocialist class-object, developing our core notions of class-making and spiritual homelessness through an exploration of the forms of the feminine in the taste structures in contemporary urban China. The key...
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Risk, Incorporated: Dr. Love and Mr. Money
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 595–629.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Nandini Bhattacharya In this essay the author traces the mobilization of vocabularies of risk, uncertainty, and insurance within private and public affective worlds in contemporary India, and their aesthetic forms as found in Indian film and literature today. Rituparno Ghosh's film Noukadubi (2011...
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Children's Bodies Are Not Capital: Arduous Cross-Border Mobilities between Shenzhen and Hong Kong
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 353–375.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Johanna L. Waters; Maggi W. H. Leung Abstract This article foregrounds and unpacks the significance of education in the migration of children in contemporary Asia, drawing principally on research undertaken in Hong Kong and across the border with Mainland China (Shenzhen). Using the example...
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Making Contact : Contingency, Fantasy, and the Performance of Impossible Intimacies in the Video Art of Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 769–799.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Arnika Fuhrmann This article examines contemporary Thai artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook's video work on death since 1997. Investigating Araya's willed, long-term artistic history of intimacy and exchange with the dead, the article focuses not on the artwork's relation to mourning but rather on how...
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Art for October: Thai Cold War State Violence in Trauma Art
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 19–50.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Sudarat Musikawong The visual artwork produced about Thai contemporary political trauma constitutes a “trauma art” expressing a politics of loss—loss of life, loss of history, and loss of leftist memory. While much of the literature on 1970s violence and traumatic memory in Thailand has focused...
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Cambodian American Memory Work: Justice and the “Cambodian Syndrome”
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 805–830.
Published: 01 August 2012
... deployment of a “usable past” through the selec-
tive “lesson” of Cambodia’s genocidal history provides an undeniable politi-
cal framework for contemporary Cambodian American lm, literature, and
art about Democratic Kampuchea, which simultaneously...
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Contributors
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 527–528.
Published: 01 May 2006
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work is Han’guk munhak pip’yo˘ngsaron (A Study on the History of Korean Literary Criticism)
(2002).
Ping Liu is an assistant director of the Contemporary Literature Department of the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences (CASS...
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Racializing Area Studies, Defetishizing China
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positions (2019) 27 (1): 33–65.
Published: 01 February 2019
... . 2003a . “ Minor Literature, Polysystem: The Problem of Language and the Meaning of Sinophone Southeast Asian Literature .” In Contemporary Literature and the Ecology of the Humanities (Dangdai wenxue yu renwen shengtai) , edited by Yaozong Wu , 313 – 27 . Taipei : Wanjuanlou chubanshe...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 523–527.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the University of Chicago and has research interests in conceptions of popular and mass cultures in China, the adaptation of Chinese folklore for modern and contemporary literature and performing arts, the reception of Western and Soviet literary and dramatic aesthetics in China, and the relationship of creative...
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The Mirage of “Chinese Postmodernism”: Ge Fei, Self-Positioning, and the Avant-Garde Showcase
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positions (1993) 1 (2): 349–388.
Published: 01 May 1993
...-positioning’’ of contemporary literature. One should pause
here for a moment to note the subtle difference between the subtext for
Wang I The Mirage of “Chinese Postmodernism” 357
“self-positioning” and that for “repositioning...
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In the Beginning: Blackness and the 1960s Creative Nonfiction of Ōe Kenzaburō
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positions (2017) 25 (2): 323–349.
Published: 01 May 2017
... (Weekly Rising Sun) , April 20 . Ōe Kenzaburō . 1974a . “Dai sanbu no tame no nōto.” In Genshuku na tsunawatari (Grave Tightrope Walking), 205–08 . Tokyo : Bungei Shunju . Ōe Kenzaburō . 1974b . “Gendai bungaku to sei” (“Sex and Contemporary Literature”) . In Genshuku na...
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The Market Life of Japanese Literature in Postwar America: Knopf, Translation, and the Archives of Cultural Commerce
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 513–537.
Published: 01 August 2024
... and economic concerns that formed within the American trade publisher Alfred A. Knopf Inc.’s noted postwar Japanese literature translation program. Founded in 1915, Knopf rose to prominence in the American publishing world in part through its translations of contemporary works of literature by prominent living...
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Native Soil of Postmemory and Affective Archives in Wu Ming-Yi's The Stolen Bicycle
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 793–814.
Published: 01 November 2022
... . Fan Ming-ju 范銘如 . 2005 . Xiang yihe qiaokeli dangdai wenxue wenhua pinglun 像一盒巧克力:當代文學文化評論 ( Like a Box of Chocolate: Contemporary Literature Cultural Criticism ). Taipei : Ink . Fan Ming-ju 范銘如 . 2007 . “ Hou xiangtu xiaoshuo chutan ” 後鄉土小說初探 (“A Primary Survey of Post-regional...
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Invisible Women: Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Women's Film
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 255–280.
Published: 01 February 1995
... and contemporary literature and the arts. This is because 1949 not
only triggered a series of political changes and a superseding of one power
by another, but also marked a new historical rupture in China. After 1949,
Chinese culture, art...
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Echoes of Roar, China! On Vision and Voice in Modern Chinese Art
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 467–494.
Published: 01 May 2006
..., superhuman,
mysterious, or that an artwork is mere self expression.” He then criticized
contemporary literature for having failed to represent Chinese revolution
insightfully or movingly and called on progressive writers to grasp the true...
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