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positions (2021) 29 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 February 2021
... attached to them, formed in the milieu of overlapping and competing European, US, and Southeast Asian empires and diasporas. By investigating the forms and politics of storytelling in the island South and Southeast Asia, along with parallel and intersecting formations in the Caribbean and diasporic Asian...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 163–182.
Published: 01 February 2021
... is the practice of Penan storytelling ( tosok ), which plays a remarkably effective exogenous role in engaging the attention of everyone from state functionaries to visiting anthropologists while continuing to perform the endogenous function of reinforcing community bonds. The role of storytelling in mediating...
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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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positions (2021) 29 (1): 121–139.
Published: 01 February 2021
... holed up in libraries and walking Manila’s streets. He wrote some of his most powerful stories between the end of US colonial rule and the beginning of the postcolonial era, at a time when the very craft of storytelling was itself endangered. And he did so in another language, American English, which...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 203–224.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Ronit Ricci This article considers the crossings, modes of mobility, and affiliations that have shaped forms and contexts of storytelling within a small yet culturally resilient diasporic community: the Sri Lankan Malays, whose forefathers were sent from across the Indonesian archipelago...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 67–91.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Laurie J. Sears Storytelling brings into vivid focus the emotions and affects that different classes and races of people experienced in the imperial Dutch Indies island worlds. The storyteller explored in this article is Maria Dermoût (1888–1962), a mixed-race Dutch woman ( Indo ) who was born...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 431–450.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Yang Zhan Abstract This article conceptualizes storytelling as epistemic labor that is critical to the everyday meaning-making and future-making of Chinese rural migrants. Compared to stories told by scholars and migrants turned writers and artists, those told by migrants in a quotidian setting...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 729–755.
Published: 01 November 2020
... capitalizes on certain hallmarks of shōjo (girls’) manga culture, such as affective storytelling and character interiority. Moreover, as shown through a primary analysis of two emonogatari (illustrated story) versions of the Diary from 1964 and two manga versions from 1967, among others referenced, Anne...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 47–65.
Published: 01 February 2021
... Benjamin’s essay “The Storyteller,” the analysis in this article examines the aesthetic forms that structure Amir’s films, namely nonlinear narratives, intertextuality, and the use of images and stories as comparative frames. This article argues that Amir’s films enable audiences to recognize how the truth...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 21–45.
Published: 01 February 2021
...J. Francisco Benitez This article explores the works of Philippine author Macario Pineda through the lens of Walter Benjamin’s “The Storyteller.” Following Benjamin, Pineda’s short stories present experience as containing a dialectic “frozen” in time and sutured in narrative. In Pineda’s stories...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 793–814.
Published: 01 November 2022
...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...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 183–202.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Rick Bonus This article engages with practices of ethnographic storytelling to perform a structural critique of US schooling from the perspectives of Pacific Islander students attending a university far from their ancestral homelands. Deploying indigeneity to comprehend how their schooling...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Graeber's ( 2012 ) concept of “interpretive labor,” Zhan argues that these acts of storytelling ought to be considered as a form of hidden “epistemic labor” that burdens the disadvantaged and that is essential to maintaining a positive relationship with the future, in situations where optimism is hard...
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positions (2008) 16 (2): 305–328.
Published: 01 May 2008
... narrative structure. At the opening, Puni
attends Madame Kaya on her deathbed; from there, the moment of recol-
lection and approaching death is split into two sequences. Madame Kaya
emerges as the storyteller of her own life within Puni’s memory...
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positions (2001) 9 (1): 29–68.
Published: 01 February 2001
..., modeled after the form of traditional
storytelling, to promote revolutionary thoughts.18 Regional and reformed
operas were also widely used by sympathizers or members of the revolution-
ary party, either to proclaim what they were going to do...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 255–256.
Published: 01 February 2023
... and the edited book Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia: The Age of Digital Media . He is currently undertaking a book project on anime and related media forms in relation to the history of neoliberalism in Japan. Jay Hetrick is assistant professor of art history and theory in the College of Fine Arts...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 623–648.
Published: 01 August 2023
... the originally bittersweet tales by appropriating melodramatic storytelling for social and moral critique. To accentuate the cosmopolitan features of the Cantonese pictures, I compare them with Sirk's Hollywood melodramas, which are tremendously subversive in deriding the patriarchal family and capitalist...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 811–823.
Published: 01 November 2019
... women got together and shared their desires and stories. Storytelling and sharing desires among marginalized people became one important feature of Pink Space. Another feature of Pink Space was the very positive approach in which we brought marginalized women together to talk about pleasure...
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 259–285.
Published: 01 May 2015
... been established for prose fiction — a history
characterized by relatively fluid understandings of narrators as storytellers
Weinberger ∣∣ Triangulating an Ethos 261
whose position visvis the narration was rarely if ever...
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 767–769.
Published: 01 August 2024
... articles on Eileen Chang's transmedial storytelling, Chinese time-travel romances, and Chinese surveillance cinema. Yu Zhang is associate professor in the Department of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is the author of Going to the Countryside: The Rural...
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