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positions (2013) 21 (3): 607–636.
Published: 01 August 2013
... on the work. First, the concept of hysteria is used to describe the thematic use of symptoms in the novella, to theorize the modernist text itself as symptom, and finally to propose the hystericizing force of the text on the reader or critic. The article understands hysteria beyond individual etiology...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 449–466.
Published: 01 May 2001
...Joan Kee 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Claiming Sites of Independence: Articulating Hysteria in Pak Ch’˘ol-su’s 301/302 Joan Kee The first fifteen minutes of Pak Ch’˘ol-su’s 301/302 (1995) is a veritable mélange of stylized poses, lush...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 537–554.
Published: 01 May 2010
... imperative, a series of new laws, litigation, and regulations has been put into place that criminalizes practically all sex-related publications and video images, more specifically any sex-related information, contact, and even inquiries on the Internet. How are we to understand such sexual mass hysteria...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 205–230.
Published: 01 February 2016
... to the moral hysteria around bar dancing was the perception that bars were places where cash was hypervisible. The uneasy and contradictory relationship between unregulated and “unproductive” cash and “productive” capital was highly visible in the debates around the ban. The control of space required to make...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 67–89.
Published: 01 February 2023
... is constructed through exploitative capitalism and the division hysteria in South Korea. This representation leads audiences to examine how the latter two phenomena expose South Korean people as potential refugees. In other words, both plays do not just tell particular stories about North Korean defectors...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 491–495.
Published: 01 August 2013
... Hanscom’s essay, “Modernism, Hysteria, and the Colonial Double Bind: Pak T’aewo˘n’s One Day in the Life of the Author, Mr. Kubo,” tarries with colonial discourse longer. It focuses on a key modernist novel because, Hanscom argues, “the colonial...
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positions (2008) 16 (1): 165–188.
Published: 01 February 2008
... to indicate, by metaphorical transposition, almost any form of psychological wounding and its attendant effects, ranging from and through dissociation and amnesia in multiple personality, to melancholia, to hysteria, to forms of neurosis...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2023
... allows analysis of the social reality presented in the political and cultural particularity of Korean theater and demonstrates that cultural praxis can provide a valuable way to grasp in group and out group hysteria as well as forge possible ways to diminish the border and soften the boundary...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 279–286.
Published: 01 May 2001
... from men. By making a lan- guage out of hysteria instead of becoming hysterical, Kee points out that the single woman who insists on independence in an all-encompassing “patri- archal continuum” has blurred the distinction between...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 329–344.
Published: 01 February 2012
... (198.1 x 15.2 x 12.7 cm) Figure 2 feed/kill, 2010. Stillinstallation, from single-channel 8:12 minutes video Figure 3 Group Catalepsy orfromIconography The Hysteria—Nouvelle Ship of from Fools the Salpetriereblackphotographspaper,2007–09.ofMumbai the andartist 127 Imageswhite...
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positions (2008) 16 (1): 189–219.
Published: 01 February 2008
... an acceptance of the contradictory idea subsequently collects. The splitting of consciousness in these cases of acquired hysteria is accordingly a delib- erate and intentional one, at least often introduced by a volitional act. The actual outcome...
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positions (2007) 15 (3): 451–455.
Published: 01 August 2007
..., Tamura insisted on conjuring the hands that make the world. Hysteria, emotional volatility, and the erratic bodily movement of using hands for doodling inside the parameters of lines com- prise, Kuge claims, a violent political effort by Tamura...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 369–399.
Published: 01 May 2001
... dissatisfaction with himself make him look outside himselffor a positive image and draw him inexplicably closer to Ki-y˘ ong, who appears ethical and just. Kim Male Crisis in New Korean Cinema 389 The hysteria...
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 February 2005
... of American militarism—a culture of masculine strength and bravado at a time when, ironically, physical strength has never been less important for American troops—was well in evidence at the Republican convention with all its hysteria over “girlie men...
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positions (2015) 23 (1): 41–48.
Published: 01 February 2015
...? How can our discussions on the MIT incident in particular and past wars in general help construct a more meaningful past and a more civil, just, and enlightened future? Considering all the hypocrisy, ironies, and hysteria...
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positions (2007) 15 (3): 487–509.
Published: 01 August 2007
... desires realized through encounters with oneself in a combination of orgasmic and identificatory experiences.”5 Hysteria is therefore not really a symptom of the lack of power, but a condition of learning how to achieve a private mode...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 335–345.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to a dialectic or locked in an antinomy. It is a plane where no hysteria reigns, only the compelling fatalisms of an errant faithful who cannot completely comprehend, are irreducibly incommensurate, sometimes fooled and some- times...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 645–667.
Published: 01 November 2017
... : 2873 – 88 . Peterson Kristin . 2014 . Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Roy Ananya . 2011 . “Conclusion: Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams.” In Roy Ong , Worlding Cities , 307...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 853–884.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., imagined, scripted, and repre- sented by rage and violence in Japanese ero manga. These schizoid projec- tions lead to body-­fragmented hysteria. Their nexus is difficult, yet they are localized and can be traced to the dynamics of gender relations...
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positions (1999) 7 (1): 239–252.
Published: 01 February 1999
... because we can imagine ourselves adopting a similarly detached, skeptical attitude in episodes of mass hysteria. We like to think that we, too, as sensitive individ- uals, would avoid violence and would be among the first to challenge...