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... analysis is oftentimes associated with a Hegelian reading of subjectivity. Through a reading of Takeuchi's “What Is Modernity?,” published in 1948, this article examines Takeuchi's discourses on politics from a literary standpoint that is radically nondialectical and “powerless” with regard to “politics...

... and of the refugee and the sociology of the stranger together. The scenes from Mokran Eonni and Toillit Pipeul analyzed in this article acutely illustrate the pain and suffering experienced by North Korean defectors, especially socially powerless groups such as women and adolescents. Their position as refugees...

...Anna Lora-Wainwright Literature on land disputes typically portrays villagers as victims unable to protect their interests. While they sometimes protest against land expropriation, their efforts tend to be met with little success. Undoubtedly, villagers are in a position of relative powerlessness...

... between the empowered colonizer and powerless colonized, this study complicates our understanding of Japanese settler culture by considering the poetic representations of the nonelite Japanese. As a humorous and often vulgar cultural medium widely embraced by the general public, senryu approaches...

... debunked. Here Zhou argues a new thesis, that Lu Xun invented modern Chinese literature using what was closest at hand, the magazine, which allowed him and others to access a multigeneric and multisensory approach to communication. In Literature, Powerlessness, and Modernity: A Reading of Takeuchi...

.... The contents of the categories include power and powerlessness. Nongmin name themselves as those who have no power, those who are nivma (beasts of burden) or bin (slaves) in relation to the state in which power, by definition, resides. Power...

... they failed to do, their missed opportunities.10 Repetitions can facilitate a conscious work- ing through of the trauma since they imply an acting on reality that may gradually cure the sense of powerlessness. The aim...

... has transpired in a series of ad hoc inventions of what Kin Chi Lau will characterize in another context as drawn-out negotiation or exchange among the relatively powerless and a motley group of intellectual activists and students from Tokyo...

... caught in one position. The films must escape because they need to survive. I hesitate to call this a mercenary politics, precisely because this is a defense mechanism of the powerless. It is more appropriate to call it a survival politics...

... and powerlessness are definitively eliminated. To be Maoist, finally, means to be an integral part of the victories of this time. LONG LIVE MAOISM, THE MARXISM OF OUR TIME! LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTIONARY STORM OF MAY ’68! LONG LIVE...

... Culture, and Translated Modernity China, 1900 1937. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Nochlin, Linda. 1971. Why Are There No Great Women Artists? In Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness, edited by Vivian Gornick and Barbara Moran, 344 66. New York: Basic Books...

... discernibility of dust demands the film to instead contemplate mountains, bodies, and breaths in order to find its settled traces in atmospheric pervasion, anti-iconic moments, as well as a scalar narratology. In her “Filming Power and the Powerless: Zhao Liang's Crime and Punishment and Petition...

...- plifies the common phenomenon of development, which is propelled by governments as well as the capitalist economic system. It should be noted that in the process of development it is always the small people, the powerless people, such as women...

... words and homophobic descriptions, while powerless protes- tors are organizing demonstrations on the street. Chen and Wang ❘❘ Obstacles to LGBT Rights in Taiwan 401 In Taiwan, verbal violence is not legally recognized as violence...

... that the readers so addressed were not, and could not, be the aborigines or any of the various powerless peoples.77 5. Knowledge/Power Complexes and the Poverty of State(ist) National Imagery Retrospectively, it is evident that, within a highly limited and regimented...

... of “Village Lunatics,” Li writes, “After hearing these stories, I had the idea to write about these people around me—the ones who are forgotten, who live like wild grass. Facing the weight of these lives, I feel powerless, but I cannot turn a blind eye to them. Because I am unable to help them, I feel...

... two moments in the story. These moments represent the beginning and the end of a trajectory that moves Cao-Cao from the powerlessness of unspeak- ability toward a recognition and deployment of the performative power of her own queer...

... in the blanks in history.”26 One can even argue that her death is inevitable, for the author needs her to die to make a point. Moreover, the narrative strategy renders her a powerless woman who seems to live in the past and for the past. The occasions...

...: [Anger] arising out of a sense of powerlessness takes on the character of an ongoing passion, involving frustration of a more long-lasting kind. Anger takes on an out-of-control, passionate, ineffective character. It is a response...

... on the people. Shibi 's magic, representing the collective power of the local people, could tame the dragon. The Wenchuan earthquake took place, as a shibi explained, because the shibi were powerless to prevent the dragon from departing the region and taking with it Longxi's qi . The weakening of shibi...