... in which culturalism came to displace the more agonistic framework of class analysis, the essay explores transformations in the concept of political subjectivity, and the degree to which theatricalized expressions of discontent came to stand in for other kinds of politicization. I suggest...

..., incorporates multiple female gazes: not only that of the artist but also those of the subjects, who look at each other and at their own mirror reflections. Female Writer , a diptych consisting of a photograph and painting of the writer Zhao Bo, recalls paintings from the “beautiful women” genre. Though both...

... in the Japanese New Left's conception of shutaisei 主体性 (subjectivity). This article first presents the theories of subjectivity of some of the most influential thinkers in the shaping of the Japanese New Left ideology (Umemoto Katsumi, Nakai Masakazu, Yoshimoto Takaaki, Tanigawa Gan, Tokoro Mitsuko...

...Nina Cornyetz 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Amorphous Identities, Disavowed History: Shimada Masahiko and National Subjectivity Nina Cornyetz “I am my own, independent (hitori no) Tower of Babel,” proclaims Akuma Kazuhito, the protagonist...

... emphasizes an approach to governmentality that examines its reliance upon media production and its projection. In particular, it addresses the role of the voice and a ventriloquizing function of subjectivity conveyed through the mechanically iterative nature of narrative media. It is within these terms...

... against the Okinawans, who were “real Japanese.” Subjected to ethnic discrimination which, in practice, associated them with subjugated peoples, Okinawans tended to insist on their legitimate “Japaneseness,” using a variety of arguments...

... by Duke University Press 2015 digital culture visual culture power display lantern slide massively open online course Lantern Slide Moments and the Taught Subject, 1906 and 2006 Winnie Won Yin Wong Lu Xun’s lantern slide moment looms large in the history of modern...

...Sheng-mei Ma Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Immigrant Subjectivities and Desires in Overseas Student Literature: Chinese, Postcolonial, or Minority Text? Sheng-mei Ma Immigrant literature’s peculiar absence as a category in U.S. academic dis...

... institutional structures. Part 2 analyzes the impact of textile productivity on the narrative construction of the female subject. 1. Clothing and the Power of Difference In Heian fiction it is romantic, rather than economic, political, social...

...Christopher Hill 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Mori Ogai’s¯ Resentful Narrator: Trauma and the National Subject in “The Dancing Girl” Christopher Hill The career of Mori Ogai,¯ in its most common interpretation, appears to be a symbol...

...Ōe Kenzaburō; Kim Chi-ha Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 An Autonomous Subject’s long Waiting, Coexistence be Kenzaburd and Kim Chi-ha This conversation between Japanese novelist and Nobel Laureate Oe Kenzabur6 and South...

...Jing Tsu 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Perversions of Masculinity: The Masochistic Male Subject in Yu Dafu, Guo Moruo, and Freud Jing Tsu The celebrated Chinese poet Xu Zhimo once compared the writings of his contemporary Yu Dafu to the sores...

...Shuqin Cui Taking Liu Manwen’s self-portraiture series, especially her Ordinary Life and Monologue , as examples, this article argues that the self-subject via self-portraiture comes to terms through social-cultural constitution and visual articulation. With face masked and body wrapped, Liu...

...Inderpal Grewal Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Traveling Barbie: Indian Transnationality and New Consumer Subjects lnderpal GrewaI In the extensive field of cultural studies of Barbie, there are only some cur- sory...

...Kang Chao; Marshall Johnson 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Nationalist Social Sciences and the Fabrication of Subimperial Subjects in Taiwan Kang Chao and Marshall Johnson Nationalist Imagination and Positivist Social Sciences A distinctive feature of imperial...

... form of subimperial gaze. As war induces movement of soldiers and refugees, war forges contacts among empire, subempire, and neocolonial subjects, not only on the battlefield but also in refugee camps. Providing a corrective view to the overly humanitarian or legalistic approaches taken in some...

...Anita Koo; Ngai Pun Abstract Accompanying the “China Dream” as a symbol of the advent of Chinese transnational infrastructural capitalism, a new project of subject making is emerging: an increasing number of Chinese youth, especially those from working-class backgrounds, have entered the expanded...

...Minh-Ha T. Pham This article draws together communications and media studies with feminist theory and refugee scholarship to closely consider Vietnamese-American subject and community formations from the reference point of sound and audition. Specifically, it examines the ways in which...

... in Beijing and I Graduated! serve both to construct the documentary subject as an “internal witness” to the events of 1989 and also — by suggesting the uncontrolled and contingent nature of filming “in the present” — to validate this act of witnessing as unofficial, and therefore truthful. While this form...

... by the nation to its subjects presents the figure of the “citizen” as its teleology, nonnational resources are mobilized to configure the subject of the region. Rather than a historical development, this performative subject, who works with multiple horizons of universality, is foundational to the formation...