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“Flat Surface” as Material Metaphor: “Bad” Cover Design, “Good” Storytelling, and Post-Fordist Sensibility in Chinese Web Novels
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 655–684.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Renren Yang Abstract The article deploys the material metaphor of “flat surface” to read the unexpected cross-modal affinities between amateurish cover design and professional storytelling in Chinese web novels. Canvassing the ways visual and verbal artifacts put into play metaphoric associations...
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The Politics of Mirrored Metaphors: Flor Contemplacion and The Maid
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 463–498.
Published: 01 May 2011
... the conditions in which the other can render visible the self. The article calls for an abandoning of essentialism, vulgarities, and cultural misrepresentation for a genuine dialogue to ensue. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The Politics of Mirrored Metaphors: Flor Contemplacion and The Maid...
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From Metaphors of Empire to Enactments of State: Popular Religious Movements and Health in Rural North China
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 573–602.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., the idea of the imperial metaphor points to an intimate relation between religious practices and the state that merits attention. This article examines how the state—not only the long-defunct imperial bureaucracy but also the Maoist state—is imagined as a central provider of cosmic order in religious...
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Literature by Other Mediums: Revisiting Lu Xun's Preface to Outcry
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 373–398.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the preface as an act of narration, this article scrutinizes textual choices such as the confusing word dianying 电影 (film) and the outcry metaphor. The emergence of both modern vernacular literature and Lu Xun as a major literary figure, it is argued, should be historicized in a broader transnational media...
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The Making of Homo Socialist : The Discursive Analysis of the Ideological Production of Class in China, 1949–1976
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 111–136.
Published: 01 February 2022
... Revolution, “class” changed from a socioeconomic designation to a political behavioral metaphor, and in the end a purely symbolic gesture; personal experiences were transformed from hallmarks of class privilege to virtual identification with imagined class struggle. And the peasants went from being “owners...
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The Fruits of Demolition: Generative Neglect in Zhengzhou's Urban Villages
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positions (2022) 30 (3): 571–594.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of the year. This article examines key players in the demolitions, such as the chaierdai 拆二代 (rich-through-demolition), zhengfu 政府 (government), renmin 人民 (people), residents of the urban core, and evicted migrant workers. Looking at who benefits from the literal and metaphorical fruits of demolition reveals...
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Virus as Hermeneutic: From Gu Cheng to Xie Ye
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 687–711.
Published: 01 November 2019
... stories that can travel and concepts whose circulation may contribute to antipatri-archal goals. The piece concludes by arguing that the metaphor of the virus reveals the position of the scholar who reproduces texts for study, and that thinking through the virus implicates scholars in the ethics...
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Filming the Queerness of Comfort Women: Byun Young-Joo's The Murmuring , 1995
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 February 2014
... of Sharing) metaphorically mirrors the psychological state of its inhabitants. Physical interactions between the women of the House of Sharing are shown to challenge the regulations of gender and sexuality, and bodies that resist the silencing in the name of father are hauntingly featured. With an indepth...
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The Incognito
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positions (2018) 26 (1): 151–183.
Published: 01 February 2018
... of rhetoric, in particular his metaphors (Baude-
laire’s “correspondances He develops a contrast between those metaphors,
fantastic and projective, and a countervailing sense of historical decay and
destruction, as expressed in allegorical images...
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Zen Poetry and Realism: Reflections on KoŪn's Verse
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positions (2000) 8 (2): 559.
Published: 01 May 2000
... / they merely die off.”25
The connection between such a sense of history on the poet’s part and
the spirit of realism is also manifested in his poetic meditation concerning
metaphors and figures of speech [piyu]. Songs of Tomorrow already had...
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Trouble in New Utopia
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positions (2004) 12 (3): 667–686.
Published: 01 August 2004
... as iconographies calibrated according to subjectively held perceptions
of the artist’s specific cultural, national, and racial backgrounds. This process
is founded on the immediate verification of the images as metaphorical rep-
resentations of the external...
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The Enola Gay on Display: Hiroshima and American Memory
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positions (1997) 5 (3): 863–878.
Published: 01 August 1997
... inadvertently so at the National Air and Space Museum, is a kind of
imaginative empathy that Cynthia Ozick calls “metaphoric memory” and
sees as one basis of Jewish moral civilization. Leviticus, she points out,
teaches us to “love thy neighbor...
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“Face”: An Adaptable Discourse of Social Surfaces
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 119–148.
Published: 01 February 1995
... interviewees had a wide vari-
ety of occupations and educational levels. My questions were open ended
and designed to elicit as many metaphors regarding stories about and com-
mon usages of the terms mianxi and lian as possible...
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The Translator Transfigured: Lin Shu and the Cultural Logic of Writing in the Late Qing
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 69–96.
Published: 01 February 1995
... loyalty to his emperor is frequently compared to a
woman’s love for her man. It is curious because the translator has
revamped the metaphor. Typically, in the position of the vehicle of the
metaphor, a woman’s love, especially...
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“As Natural as the Partnership of Sun and Moon”: The Logic of Sexualized Metonymy in Pictures from the Water Trade and The Lady and the Monk
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positions (1996) 4 (2): 321–341.
Published: 01 May 1996
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an asymmetrical relationship of which he is the beneficiary. And yet, the
discourse of selflother clearly manifests itself in the metaphors of seeing
that run through both narratives. Rey Chow argues in her theory of “ethnic
spectatorship...
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Editor's Introduction
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 February 2007
... the ‘Cradle of Smallpox’: Transformations in Discourse,
1726 – 2002” places the question of disease and its metaphors into a global
context. Heinrich handily shows the intricate relation of learned bibliogra-
phies, medical knowledge, state...
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Homestyle Vinaya and Docile Boys in Chinese Buddhism
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positions (1999) 7 (1): 5–50.
Published: 01 February 1999
... that constructing
monkhood as a new kind of sonship to the Buddha was very common in a
range of texts dating from different eras and locales.9 In the numerous texts
that promote the Buddha-as-father, the paternal metaphor does exactly...
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Archipelagic Thought and Theory's Other: Traveling Theory in Japan
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positions (2014) 22 (2): 461–487.
Published: 01 May 2014
... is the subconscious of/as the island metaphor. The underlying
stratum in the tectonics of Imafuku’s thought implies a reversal of the (self
imposed uniqueness of the island-country Japan into an archipelago dissolv
ing in postcoloniality.
Gabrakova...
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“And They Would Start Again”: Women and Struggle in Korean Nationalist Literature
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positions (1995) 3 (2): 392–417.
Published: 01 May 1995
... not
turn their bodies into mere signifiers and metaphors. They could not objec-
tify or allegorize their bodies because they were confronting the bodies of
their loved ones as well as their own, and not the bodies of the “mob,”
Park I “And They Would Start Again...
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The National Allegory Revisited: Writing Private and Public in Contemporary Taiwan
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positions (2006) 14 (3): 633–662.
Published: 01 August 2006
... as metaphoric mode and, more particularly,
exploring the rich play of meaning showcased in the postmodern and post-
colonial forms through which the allegorical impulse now so often mani-
fests itself. Here I argue that the incompatibility...
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