... identity for urban youth, by mobilizing the generic convention of hip-hop in representing one's hood. In most studies of globalization and localization, the local appears to be interchangeable with the national. Yet this study presses the issue of localization further, examining local communities...

...Charles Shiro Inouye Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 In the Scopic Regime of Discovery: lshikawa Takuboku’s Diary in Roman Script and the Gendered Premise of Self-Identity Charles Shire lnouye This reading begins with the desire to see. Upon...

...Don Mee Choi 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Korean Women—Poetry, Identity, Place: A Conversation with Kim Hye-sun Don Mee Choi Kim Hye-sun (b. 1955) is a prominent contemporary South Korean poet, who is identified as one of the “women poets...

...Ya-Chung Chuang 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Place, Identity, and Social Movements: Shequ and Neighborhood Organizing in Taipei City Ya-Chung Chuang Introduction: An Urban Legend One summer afternoon in June 1995, a college student on the way home after...

...Samuel Perry Duke University Press 2006 Korean as Proletarian: Ethnicity and Identity in Chang Hyo˘k-chu’s “Hell of the Starving” Samuel Perry “Land of bald mountains, land of red earth” — this is usually how people who have been to Korea...

...Yan Hairong Duke University Press 2007 Position without Identity: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Yan Hairong Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is university professor and director of the Cen- ter for Comparative Literature and Society...

...Allen Chun Identity politics has accented the primacy of subjectivity of all kinds. I deflate the importance of identity in the short term here, as a preamble for arguing that our identities have always been fictions that are shaped by underlying institutional forces; that is, contrary to what we...

... to be displaced by the emerging tongzhi _movement through its political praxis of “coming out.” By tracing the trajectory of identity formation process via the (re)articulation of Crystal Boys , this paper thus highlights the centrality of prostitution in the state production of heteronormativity in Taiwan...

...Tonglin Lu This essay uses a Žižekian concept of parallax view to examine the connection between the formation of Taiwanese identity and the imposed meanings on suffering caused by Japanese colonial history. Taiwanese politicians from different ideological spectra have “parallactically” imposed...

...Yumiko Iida 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Between the Technique of Living an Endless Routine and the Madness of Absolute Degree Zero: Japanese Identity and the Crisis of Modernity in the 1990s Yumiko Iida The aesthetic is at oncethevery secret prototype...

... fiction paints a more realistic picture of the late Ming state by involving heterogeneous voices of the “other.” Collectively, the four narratives represent various images of the Ming Empire, revealing the authors’ deep apprehension of the Mings’ identity, their political criticism of the state...

...Anuradha G. Advani Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 509 The Development of a South Asian American Labor Organization: An Examination of Identity-Based Organizing Anuradha G...

...Lingzhen Wang Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Retheorizing the Personal: Identity, Writing, and Gender in Yu Luojin’s Autobiographical Act Lingzhen Wang Yu Luojin was widely regarded as China’s most controversial woman...

...Cherie Wendelken 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Commentary Pan-Asianism and the Pure Japanese Thing: Japanese Identity and Architecture in the Late 1930s Cherie Wendelken The formation of the architectural profession in Japan in the late nineteenth...

...Hyun Sook Kim 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Commentary Korea’s “Vietnam Question”: War Atrocities, National Identity, and Reconciliation in Asia Hyun Sook Kim The “Vietnam Question” A new space for examining the Korean national identity and culture...

...Paola Zamperini 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 On Their Dress They Wore a Body: Fashion and Identity in Late Qing Shanghai Paola Zamperini Going Somatic And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked...

... of analysis are not the logical and unquestionable developments some authors claim them to be. A third characteristic is the search for an identity for Chinese feminism in a global context. Chinese scholars, under the impact of Western theory, turn to spatial definitions of Chinese feminism vis-à-vis...

...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...