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positions (2018) 26 (1): 111–150.
Published: 01 February 2018
... military intervention in South Vietnamese cities. In the novel, the character of the Vietnamese superspy appears as a figure for the ambivalent political situation of the Republic of Vietnam within the geopolitics of the Cold War. Sovereignty, Surveillance, and Spectacle in South Vietnamese Spy Fiction...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 623–652.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Yuanfei Wang In the late sixteenth century, thriving private maritime trade brought forth maritime trouble to the late Ming state. In times of rampant “Japanese” piracy and Hideyoshi’s invasion of Korea, Chinese literati composed unofficial histories and vernacular fiction on China’s foreign...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 67–91.
Published: 01 February 2021
... and raised on Java in the Dutch East Indies and who spent more than thirty years there. This article argues that Dermoût is a key writer for understanding affective economies, because she devotes significant time and effort in her fiction to fleshing out Native characters, something that few writers of her...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 601–621.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Dian Li Abstract In his poetry and fiction, Alai creates a historiography of Eastern Tibet replete with the grandeur and magnificence of the past occasionally interposed with some oppressive cultural practices. It is a historiography motivated and energized by nostalgic lyricism, which helps locate...
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 311–343.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Brian Bergstrom Duke University Press 2006 Revolutionary Flesh: Nakamoto Takako’s Early Fiction and the Representation
of the Body in Japanese Modernist and Proletarian Literature
Brian Bergstrom
Introductions: Nakamoto Takako as Modernist Writer,
Proletarian Writer, and Woman...
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 427–447.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Bert Scruggs Duke University Press 2006 Narratives of Discomfort and Ideology:
Yang Kui’s Short Fiction and Postcolonial Taiwan Orthodox Boundaries
Bert Scruggs
Colonial Taiwan and a Postcolonial Problem
Taiwan and the Taiwanese became subjects of the colonial...
Journal Article
positions (2006) 14 (3): 687–715.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Howard Y. F. Choy Duke University Press 2006 “To Construct an Unknown China”:
Ethnoreligious Historiography in Zhang Chengzhi’s Islamic Fiction
Howard Y. F. Choy
China is a polyethnic country with the Han as the dominant majority...
Journal Article
positions (2007) 15 (3): 580–608.
Published: 01 August 2007
.... Gerald Fabian
and Guy Wernham, illus. Nemi Frost [San Francisco: Alamo
Square, 1991 Courtesy of Bert Herrman and Alamo Square
Press
Performers of the Paternal Past: History, Female Impersonators,
and Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
Ta-wei Chi
In Emerging from...
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 May 2009
... experiences, whereas the inability to grab a unifying self results in the questioning of language as a useful means to convey meaning; language or narrative as a signifier of an external referent is put into question. I demonstrate how these writers put into relief the fictional quality of both fiction...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 351–372.
Published: 01 May 2010
... for well-intentioned readers. We propose that both the narrative form and content of Hung's science fiction address the homophobic deployments of what we term reticent schadenfreude. By exposing how it renders oppositional or deviant sexual positionalities impossible or off the map of civil discourse...
Journal Article
positions (2010) 18 (3): 727–769.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Sarah Frederick This article analyzes interactions between text and photographic image in works of photographic fiction ( shashin shôsetsu ) printed in Japanese women's magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s, including their interaction with cinema and print culture. The essay considers the complex...
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 301–328.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Kyle Ikeda This article examines two early pieces of literary war fiction by Okinawa's leading contemporary writer, Medoruma Shun, that deal with two kinds of unarticulated memories of the Battle of Okinawa: memory constrained by social consequence and the inexpressible memory of trauma. Both...
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Yoon Sun Yang Yi Injik's Tears of Blood (1906) is the pioneering piece of “new fiction” ( sin sosŏl ). As many works of this male-authored genre revolve around women's conflicts regarding marriage, family, and home life, literary critics often condescendingly disregard them as domestic fiction...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 665–694.
Published: 01 November 2015
... The Borderlands of the Korean War and the Fiction of Rolando Hinojosa
Daniel Y. Kim
The Korean War played a significant role in the US history of race relations
because it was the first conflict fought by an integrated military in which
African...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (2): 279–303.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Huei-chu Chu Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 “Fictionalizing” Indigenous Mourning:
Taiwanese Funerals under Japanese Imperialization
Huei-chu Chu
In 1941, a year when the Japanese wartime campaign of kminka (imperi-
alization...
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positions (2008) 16 (2): 359–387.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Janet S. Shibamoto Smith Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary
Japanese Men in Love
Janet S. Shibamoto Smith
Introduction
This essay is a study of one emotion, romantic love, in a single literary...
Journal Article
positions (2002) 10 (3): 525–546.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Jian Xu 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Radical Ethnicity and Apocryphal History:
Reading the Sublime Object of Humanism in Zhang Chengzhi’s Late Fictions
Jian Xu
Zhang Chengzhi is a well-known contemporary Chinese writer whose sen-
timents...
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in The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege (A Photo Essay)
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 2 Tong Lam, untitled (2015), from the series Where There Is No Room for Fiction . Light box. Prior to its urbanization in the 1980s, Xian Village was made up of picturesque farmlands and tranquil fishing ponds. After its partial demolition, the village began to look more like a scene
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in The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege (A Photo Essay)
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 7 Tong Lam, untitled (2014), from the series Where There Is No Room for Fiction . Light box. An image of a rural migrant renter projected onto a half-demolished building. Courtesy of the artist.
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 321–349.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Ding Naifei Imagined concubinage refers to fictional representations of urban marriage and romantic love in crisis in early 1980s Taiwan by women writers in short stories, novellas, and novels featuring female protagonists. This article's main question arises from a Taiwan context wherein...
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