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positions (2013) 21 (4): 853–884.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 “Kawaii” and “Moe” — Gazes, Geeks (Otaku), and Glocalization of Beautiful Girls (B i s h o¯ j o ) in Hong Kong Youth Culture Wai-­hung Yiu and Alex Ching-­shing Chan Gazes, Geeks, and Glocalization of Manga-­Bisho¯jo In Spring 2009...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 159–187.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Erica Kanesaka Abstract This article explores the ties between anti-Black racist kitsch and kawaii culture through the history of the Dakko-chan doll. In what came to be called the “Dakko-chan boom” of 1960, tens of thousands of Japanese people lined up to purchase an inflatable blackface doll...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2022
... and nonambivalent message. Ambivalence is also central in Erica Kanesaka's piece on the Dakko-chan craze in Japan, “Racist Attachments: Dakko-chan, Black Kitsch, and Kawaii Culture.” Created in the 1960s, the Dakko-chan doll, an inflatable blackface doll, with a circular red mouth, grass skirt, and winking...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 487–513.
Published: 01 August 2015
... their own unique versions of cute and specific styles of emotional labor. Yomota Inuhiko has argued that while cute in English denotes some- thing childish, in contemporary Japan, cute (kawaii) can describe practi- cally anything ranging from...
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positions (2004) 12 (2): 401–429.
Published: 01 May 2004
... kawaii, he or she must also experience grinding poverty, pollution, urban decay, incivility, and per- haps even danger. Even so, the reader might well ask why this magazine shocked me so. After all, the cute-ification and sanitization of Third World...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 763–767.
Published: 01 November 2013
... a politicization of belong- ing would at last allow conditions for mourning. Lest “ ‘Kawaii’ and ‘Moe’ — Gazes, Geeks (Otaku), and Glocalization of Beautiful Girls (Bishjo) in Hong Kong Youth Culture” appear to be a harmless bit...
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positions (2001) 9 (2): 467–493.
Published: 01 May 2001
.... Feminine, innocent, and cute in the quintessentially Japanese form of cuteness known as kawaii, the shojo serves as an appeal- ing alternative identity in contrast to the image of the hardworking, highly pressured Japanese male. In the works...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 629–659.
Published: 01 August 2008
...: ‘That’s it! That’s it exactly (which I love ”44 He goes on to speculate on the “failure of language” that this word adorable engenders or reflects. Tawara’s tanka exemplify this sense of overwhelming adoration of the cute, the oft-heard kawaii...
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positions (2008) 16 (2): 359–387.
Published: 01 May 2008
... gets around to finding her kawaii (cute) (Kekkon no toki, 63) and to exhibit- ing protective feelings — he takes her arm in a crowded place and urges her to stay close to him: “Hanarenai de kure. Sekkaku, aeta n da” (Please stay close to me...
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 667–686.
Published: 01 August 2004
... LisaCorrin,“MarikoMori’sQuantumNirvana,”inMarikoMori,exhibitioncatalog(Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art; London: Serpentine Gallery, 1998), 24. 19 Yuko Hasegawa, “Post-identity Kawaii: Commerce, Gender, and Contemporary Japanese Art...
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positions (2008) 16 (1): 165–188.
Published: 01 February 2008
... annihilation. Perhaps from this national trauma did kawaii and otaku cul- tures emerge in contemporary Japan.”33 In the exhibition Little Boy, the bomb is ever-present, traumatically deter- mining all the wildly improbable fixations and fetishizations...
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positions (2000) 8 (2): 423–464.
Published: 01 May 2000
... emerging near the end of the 1980s was the “ultra-cute (cho-kawaii) girl’s manga written by and for men,” typically featuring “a girl heroine with large eyes and a body that is both voluptuous and child-like” who is often a tough fighter for justice...