... him to discover deep flaws in the novel's capacity for mimesis. I agree, but not with their conclusions that he therefore abandoned the form. On the contrary, I suggest that it was the very power of the novel to hold competing conventions of representation in tension, and to work through the epistemic...

...Deborah Shamoon Chijin no ai ( Naomi , 1924) and Nikukai ( A Lump of Flesh , 1923), by Tanizaki Jun'ichirô, were seminal texts in forming the image of the “modern girl” in Japan in the 1920s. In both novels, Hollywood actresses famous for playing vamp roles are central to the construction...

... effects of shifting technologies of visual reproduction on national and gendered identities, with particular attention to the significance of the “fictional” status of such photographic images during this era of intense historical reality. Duke University Press 2010 Novels to See/Movies to Read...

...Hans Tao-Ming Huang This article proposes a historically and movement-wise contextualized reading of Pai Hsien-yung's Crystal Boys , known as the first “gay” novel in Taiwan. As the novel was taken up as a signifier in the new tongzhi politics in 1990s Taiwan, the article shows, its legacy...

...Charmaine Carvalho Although chick lit, epitomized by novels such as Bridget Jones’s Diary , has been analyzed by feminist critics as an example of postfeminist culture, the transnational spread of the genre has resulted in transformations that invite fresh consideration. In the Indian context...

...Youngju Ryu The Guest ( Sonnim ), Hwang Sok-yong's 2001 novel, offers a sustained meditation on conditions of possibility for inter-Korean reconciliation. Featuring memories of what happened in Sinchon, a North Korean town where an estimated thirty-five thousand civilians were killed during...

... a shift from Vietnamese collectivism to individualism during this period. However, through a reading of Khái Hưng's novel Nửa chừng xuân ( In the Midst of Spring ), this article argues that although male Vietnamese writers adapted the European first-person grammatical category to express individual...

...Duy Lap Nguyen This essay develops a reading of Bùi Anh Tuấn’s Ian Fleming–inspired Specter over Red Square ( Bóng Ma trên Công Trường Đỏ ). Published during the war in Vietnam, the novel was one of the most successful examples of the new forms of mass culture that emerged in the context of the US...

...Chialan Sharon Wang Abstract This article focuses on Wu Ming‐Yi's 2015 novel, The Stolen Bicycle , and examines the way individuals’ storytelling is interwoven with scientific and historical facts to construct cultural memory and reinscribe the meaning of native soil. The novel unfolds...

...Anh Thang Dao Focusing on the idea of the homeland as a central aspect of exile and using Linda Lê's novel Slander as an entry point, this essay argues that exile often functions as a continuation of the original place, which remains under the control of a nation-state that is necessarily exclusive...

... initial directive was fueled by New Deal liberalism. This article examines a work that revisited Bauhausian philosophy, Jikken Kōbō's 1955 The Future Eve ( Mirai no ivu ), an experimental ballet theater based on a science fiction novel written in 1886 by the French novelist Villiers de l'Isle-Adam...

.../anti-Japanese movement. More recently, however, the novelist Wuhe has highlighted its ambiguous nature in his award-winning novel The Remains of Life ( Yusheng , 2000). For Wuhe, the incident is an entangled web of conflicting impulses: a violent confluence between modern politics and traditional...

... to an alternate ideological position. Through a close reading of two of his works, “Suzuki, Miyakoyama, Yasojima” (1935) and “The Novelist Who Cannot Write a Novel” (“Shôsetsu no kakenu shôsetsuka,” 1936), this article investigates the “position” Nakano turned “to” and the critical potency of his thinking...

...” or “poststructuralist” turn, the historical transformation of the political signifier of “China” already provided an occasion for a critical theory of the subject for queer Chinese writers. Beginning with a close reading of Chen Ruoxi's Paper Marriage , one of the earliest full-length queer novels in Chinese...

...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...

...Theodore Hughes Beginning with The Square ( Kwangjang , 1960) and the linked novel Voice of the Governor-General ( Ch'ongdok ŭi sori , 1967, 1968, 1976) and moving through two early 1970s works, A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist ( Sosŏlga Kubossi ŭi iril , 1970–72) and The Tempest ( T'aep'ung...

... or adheres to hegemonic beliefs and practices. This article analyzes 1970s South Korean radio culture by juxtaposing one of the most popular radio docudramas of that decade, Pŏpch’ang yahwa ( Anecdotes of Law and Order ), with Ch’oe In-hun’s linked novel The Voice of the Governor General to suggest that even...

... the Japanese language of his novels by creating a tension between the main text and the fragments of Korean language embedded within. In this way, Kim carves out a space for the performance of a Korean identity that is ultimately only imaginary, and it is through this process that a potentially empowering...

...登 composed a vernacular novel Sanbao taijian xiyangji tongsu yanyi 三寶太監西洋記通俗演義 ( Vernacular Romance of Eunuch Sanbao’s Voyages on the Indian Ocean ) (1598). This article examines how the imminent maritime realities reminded the late Ming authors of one cross-border war and two genocides in Java...

...Takehiro Watanabe In late 1980s Japan, loan sharks surfaced as heroes in graphic novels set in the world of predatory moneylending. A genre of manga about usury gained popularity as monthlies began to run serialized stories that parody class inequality through gratuitous, chauvinistic depictions...