...Chungmoo Choi Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Discourse of Decolonization and Popular Memory: South Korea Chungmoo Choi The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born...

...Venkat Rao Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Commentary Writing Orally: Decolonization from Below Venkat Rao Gaddar is not the name of the person whose work I am discussing here but, rather, of a movement and of a party...

...Shaoling Ma The mergers and separations that shaped the decolonizing third world also made media history. Singapore’s separation from Malaysia on August 9, 1965, after two tumultuous years of union was no exception. Radio and television, which broadcasted the seminal moments, embodied the mergers...

... postcolonial discomfort affected the trajectory of elite hegemony in decolonizing and postcolonial Singapore. The elite initially adopted a hybrid Malayan identity, which emulated the transformative multiracialism of their leftist comrades-turned-opponents. After undesired separation from Malaysia...

.... The Korean National Council of Women came together to join the International Council of Women, a major international women’s organization that was looking for new affiliations in the recently decolonized parts of Asia and Africa in the midst of Cold War competition. Thus, we should view the existence...

...Jan Christian Bernabe The article explores the archive imperative in the 1995 film Bontoc Eulogy by Filipino American photographer and filmmaker Marlon Fuentes. The archive imperative is a decolonizing aesthetic and political strategy that challenges American colonial visual regimes and knowledge...

... “Chineseness” and “queer” are highly contested, overdetermined, heterogeneous, and mobile terms. By showing how boundaries are crossed at all times, the contributors highlight the ways in which transnational queer Chinese politics might contribute to the decolonization of U.S.-dominated theory. Duke...

... will either achieve at last a state of maturity or declare a premature bankruptcy.” That decolonization has remained a living issue even into the 1990s is an argument taken up in the text (here offered as part 2) of a lecture which I...

..., Fanon and Cesaire’s analysis of colonization and decolonization have all been crucial for our own work and, indeed, for an entire generation of feminists such as Chandra Mohanty, Maria Mies, KumKum Sangari, Mary Layoun, Uma...

... Consciousness,” in certain postcolonial societies where emancipation from class and other forms of oppression did not occur after decolonization, colonial structures of domination based on brutal force remain intact. “The Flag” addresses...

... certain questions about the critical languages available to us and how these can be reshaped to our specification: questions pertaining to (among other things) institutional and individual collusion, the project of decolonizing historiography...

...- ing a book entitled The Dixourse of Decolonization: Competing Histories and Contesting National Culrures in South Korea. James A. Fuiii teaches modern Japanese literature at UC Irvine and is the author of Complicit...

... involvement in these changes. Meanwhile, the mood of “indigenization” (ben-tu-hua) provokes me to reflect on the necessity of decolonizing my intellectual work. But it also makes me realize that exclusive indigenization is a sheer dead end. Waver...

... by global waves of decolonization — is summoned back by Niall Ferguson and his backers to legitimize an open imperial ambi- tion. If this nakedly imperialist concept of civilization flags itself for criti- cism by cultural studies and critical area...

... Asian Art. Joanne Leow is an assistant professor of transnational and decolonizing literatures in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Her most recent work has been published in Journal of Asian American Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and University of Toronto Quarterly...

... of decolonization and global flow. In the last few years, writers have begun to recover allegory in both its postcolonial and postmodern forms, demonstrating that there is plenty of life beyond Bun- yan for the allegorical mode.25 This article seeks to show...

... In “The Discourse of Decolonization and Popular Memory: South Kim I Moments of Danger 36 1 Korea,” Chungmoo Choi powerfully argues that the dominant narrative of South Korean history long acknowledged...

... Democracy, Capitalism, Communism The decolonization of Korea occurred in the midst of the change in the regional hegemon in East Asia from Japan to the United States, and it was widely believed that the liberation was given by the victory...

... to be the site of power. The post-­1945 US experiment of putative decolonization on the Korean peninsula hinged not upon the 38th parallel but, rather, the creation of a US military intelligence structure that defined, translated, and invented...

... Anthropological Association’s G.A.D. Award for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship. She is currently working on a book manuscript, “Decolonizing Extinction: An Ethnography of Orangutan Rehabilitation.” Contributors 335 Rhacel Salazar...