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positions (2012) 20 (3): 713–736.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Anh Thang Dao Focusing on the idea of the homeland as a central aspect of exile and using Linda Lê's novel Slander as an entry point, this essay argues that exile often functions as a continuation of the original place, which remains under the control of a nation-state that is necessarily exclusive...
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positions (1999) 7 (1): 165–191.
Published: 01 February 1999
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 831–850.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Khatharya Um As a meditation on our longing for relationality across time and rupture, “Exiled Memory” examines the relationship between history, memory, and identity in the Southeast Asian diaspora. It situates the politics and art of remembering against the ravages of genocide and displacement...
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positions (2002) 10 (2): 399–429.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Jon Solomon 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 The Sovereign Police and Knowledgeable Bodies: Liu Xiaobo’s Exilic Critique of Politics and Knowledge Jon Solomon The questions I will raise in this essay concern the status of the exile-refugee...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 203–224.
Published: 01 February 2021
... to colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), beginning in the late seventeenth century, as exiles, slaves, and soldiers. Two storytelling contexts set in mid-to late nineteenth-century British Ceylon are discussed: the first centers on the Qur’anic tale of the prophet Nuh (Noah) and his ark, typically viewed...
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positions (2017) 25 (2): 351–387.
Published: 01 May 2017
... by this tension of exile itself, inaugurates a series of potential moments through which the possibilities of resistant mappings can be understood. For Tanigawa, the political potential of this mapping rather lies in mobilizing the histories of the affective memory of struggle that are sedimented...
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positions (2010) 18 (1): 89–143.
Published: 01 February 2010
... a number of wars, especially those of India and the United States, the Tibetan exiles' two chief patrons. Western political elites and media have reciprocated by making a major contribution to the construction of the Dalai Lama's pacifistic persona. The Dalai Lama's advocacy of nonviolence is associated...
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 341–362.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and Arsenii Nesmelov, through their deterritorialized Chinese, Japanese, and Russian stories, demonstrates the range of indigenous and exiled writers in their diverse imagination of Manchukuo’s ambiguous sovereignty. Multiethnicity and Multilingualism in the Minor Literature of Manchukuo Yue Chen Introduction...
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 113–136.
Published: 01 February 2007
... of the poet himself — from an uncompromising young rebel in pre-1989 China to a mellowing and meditative poetic voice in exile in the West. Born in Beijing in 1949 (the year of birth for the People’s Republic of China...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 943–946.
Published: 01 August 2012
... her PhD in American studies and ethnicity from the University of Southern California. Dao’s dissertation, titled “Writing Exile: Vietnamese Literature in the Diaspora,” conceptu- alizes a deterritorialized notion of exile through the example...
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positions (1997) 5 (2): 467–489.
Published: 01 May 1997
... early on in the novel, seems to signal that the text can be comfortably contained within a conven- tional genre of exile literature, one that evokes from the vantage point of exile an idyllic, coherent, preexilic past shattered by war...
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positions (1999) 7 (3): 697–731.
Published: 01 August 1999
...: It is Hmong New Year in Fresno. This year is special. Certain Hmong American leaders have invited two representatives of the Lao royal fam- ily, now living in exile in France, to join the festivities. They have, not surprisingly, become...
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 91–111.
Published: 01 February 2007
... their contemporary cultural scene.17 Since the 1989 disaster in Tian’anmen Square, Bei Dao, like other Chi- nese poets, has being living in exile.18 Consequently, the issue of a relation- ship with the Chinese language registers a particular personal...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 671–684.
Published: 01 August 2012
... and exile, dependency and freedom, for their measures of sovereignty and selfhood; and its economy of affects, including happiness and sorrow, for their somatic and psychic reso- nances, holding out as a possibility, or impossibility, a “good life...
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 687–710.
Published: 01 August 2004
... in exile: Ocampo does not claim greater purity, but, rather, greater defilement: he would like to be the Devil. But Ocampo does not stop with a simple act of one-upmanship; instead, he confounds the hermeneutic altogether...
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 February 2007
...- tation. Poetry is language. Bei Dao’s primal disbelief in language’s capaci- ties and its alleged cultural qualities has, Pozzana illustrates, enabled this exilic poet to think distance and thus to inhabit the void. A possible reason why void...
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positions (2002) 10 (2): 239–243.
Published: 01 May 2002
... and Knowledgeable Bodies: Liu Xiaobo’s Exilic Critique of Politics and Knowledge,” the intellectual stakes are comparable though the method of explication and engagement is not. Decidedly nervous about the relation of the critic, himself, to the subject...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 653–667.
Published: 01 August 2016
... conceptu- ally. Hirsch observes that although the children of exiled survivors have Kim ∣∣ Suji Kwock Kim’s “Generation” and the Ethics of Diasporic Postmemory 655 not themselves lived through the trauma of separation from home...
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positions (2007) 15 (2): 319–343.
Published: 01 May 2007
... in political allegiances echoes Kondo’s feminist emphasis on “homing,” which is in opposition to the privileged position that male theoreticians, such as Appadurai, give to exile.41 Just as her “anagrammatical translation” challenges...
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positions (2023) 31 (4): 893–918.
Published: 01 November 2023
.... 9 Giles Ji Ungpakorn is son of the rector Puey Ungpakorn, who went into exile due to the October 6 massacre, who himself is currently in exile due to lèse-majesté. 8 Office of the Council of State, Phrarachbạnỵut Likhsit 2537 พระราชบัญญัติ ลิขสิทธิ์ ๒๕๓๗ (Copyright Act 1994), Section 4...