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positions (2019) 27 (4): 773–798.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Yun Li; Rong Rong Through the autobiographical poetry of contemporary Chinese female peasant workers, this article studies how Chinese migrant workers are dis-identified by the identifying hukou system and thus become bodies of non-identity drifting in cities. Driven by the urban desire intrigued...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 601–621.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Dian Li Abstract In his poetry and fiction, Alai creates a historiography of Eastern Tibet replete with the grandeur and magnificence of the past occasionally interposed with some oppressive cultural practices. It is a historiography motivated and energized by nostalgic lyricism, which helps locate...
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positions (2003) 11 (3): 529–539.
Published: 01 August 2003
...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...
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 113–136.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Dian Li Duke University Press 2007 Paradoxy and Meaning in Bei Dao’s Poetry
Dian Li
Poetic language is the language of paradox.
— Cleanth Brooks
Paradox exists in order to reject such divisions as those which...
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positions (2000) 8 (2): 559.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Paik Nak-chung 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Commentray
Zen Poetry and Realism: Reflections on Ko Un’s¯ Verse
Paik Nak-chung
The following essay was originally written in Korean as a contribution to
the Festschrift volume celebrating...
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in Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) and the Apocalypse of Ecological Visibility
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 4 The eloquent breaths as innate poetry.
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positions (2007) 15 (1): 91–111.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Claudia Pozzana Duke University Press 2007 Distances of Poetry: An Introduction to Bei Dao
Claudia Pozzana
“A poet,” writes Bei Dao, “must establish his world through his poems — a
sincere and unique world, a world of justice and humanity.”1...
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 21–28.
Published: 01 February 2025
.../v42/n10/clare-bucknell/instapoetry . CAO Collective 离离草 . 2023 . “ Translator/Artist Statement .” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal , July 18 . https://chajournal.blog/2023/07/18/poetic-intimacies/ . CAO Collective 离离草 . 2024 . “ Undying Springs: Translated Community Poetry and Photography...
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Published: 01 February 2025
Figure 3 “Shroud.”Collective poetry handwritten on rice paper with hand-drawn Palestinian keffiyeh patterns. December 2023, Joshua Tree, CA. Photo courtesy of the CAO Collective.
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 629–659.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Dean Brink This essay argues that Tawara Machi's poetry both sustains the intertextual bias of classical court poetry and uses it to incorporate some of the most ubiquitous texts of our age: advertising and other consumer discourse. Tawara's reinvention of contemporary tanka is based...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., exploitation, alienation. To counter the pressures of this life, he wrote poetry. In 2016 he settled in Picun, a village on the outskirts of Beijing made famous by an NGO called the Migrant Workers Home. The Home aims to advance migrant workers’ social identification through cultural education. To this end...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 653–667.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Sandra So Hee Chi Kim Regarding her highly acclaimed first book of poetry, Notes from the Divided Country , second-generation Korean American poet Suji Kwock Kim has stated that she considers the representation of the traumatic experiences of the Korean War as “the responsibility that one has...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 687–711.
Published: 01 November 2019
... circulation of the poetry of Gu Cheng 顾城, whose verse and biography have circulated widely and been intensively transformed in the past thirty years. The partial and mutated versions of his life and verse that circulate via film, television, print, calligraphy, and especially the Internet produce a shared...
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positions (2017) 25 (2): 351–387.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... In examining a sequence of Tanigawa's poetry and certain of his critical essays, the author tries to disrupt such readings by arguing that his attempt to conceive of a practice of writing, not focused on the substantialization of “the people” or the region but, rather, on the dynamic flux of energy produced...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 735–762.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the ideologies that justified killing disabled people and the construction of disabled society and culture, as well as several books of poetry. In his poems, he aimed not only to shed light on the oppression and dehumanization of disabled people but to rethink dominant conceptions of embodiment and “able...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 601–628.
Published: 01 August 2008
... and vocabularies specific to a hybrid colonial culture. It is the more contoured and ambivalent dynamics of colonial race relations that the senryu poetry brings forth, which, in turn, questions the existing narratives of Japanese colonialism. Duke University Press 2008 Writing Colonial Relations of Everyday...
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 1 Photo of Xiao Hai in 2017, in the Migrant Workers Home library/reading room, holding a copy of Haizi's collected works. His hat says “Work hard play hard.” The white front cover of Howl in the Factory , his own collection of poetry, published in the unofficial Picun series, is visible
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positions (2000) 8 (2): 465–497.
Published: 01 May 2000
.... The appearance and the
rapid development of vernacular prose literature occurred at a time when
Japanese poetry, which the popularity and prestige of Chinese poetry at the
court in the early Heian period had virtually eclipsed, was gaining new le...
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positions (2005) 13 (2): 411–439.
Published: 01 May 2005
... of the literary world), both women occupy
important roles in Vietnamese literature and history. There are references to
them in anthologies of Vietnamese poetry, histories of Vietnam, the names of
Vietnamese buildings and streets, and the halls...
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positions (2025) 33 (1): 7–19.
Published: 01 February 2025
...Figure 3 “Shroud.”Collective poetry handwritten on rice paper with hand-drawn Palestinian keffiyeh patterns. December 2023, Joshua Tree, CA. Photo courtesy of the CAO Collective. ...
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