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...Serk-Bae Suh This essay examines the controversial staging of a Japanese-language version of the popular Korean romance Ch'unhyangjŏn ( The Tale of Spring Fragrance ) by the Japanese theatrical company Shinkyô in 1938. By analyzing the arguments of Japanese and Korean intellectuals about the play...

...Long Nguyen Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Portfolio Long Nguyen positions 5:2 All artwork is reprinted with the permission of the artist, Tales of Yellow Skin #2 Oil on canvas, 66 x 66 inches (1991). Tales of Yellow Skin #6 Oil...

...Nina Cornyetz Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Nakagami Kenji‘s Mystic Writing Pad; or, Tracing Origins, Tales of the Snake, and the land as Matrix Nina Cornyetz The celebrated medieval poet Matsuo Bash8 is most famous for his...

...Ruth Barraclough Duke University Press 2006 Tales of Seduction: Factory Girls in Korean Proletarian Literature Ruth Barraclough In the 1920s, when authors of proletarian literature were becoming some of Korea’s leading literary avant-gardes, people...

..., an ahistorical rendition of premodern tales and therefore undeserving of critical scrutiny, as opposed to a handful of politically sensitive and worthy examples of social fiction. In this line of thinking, Tears of Blood has been classified as social fiction that openly depicts urgent political issues...

... of the region. This article, using two Malayalam language films from the South Indian state of Kerala, Arabikatha ( Arabian Tale ) and 16 MM: Memories, Movement and a Machine , attempts to think through how mistranslation of the “world” is central to the formation of the regional subject. Copyright 2016...

... of sex and violence in the urban underground, while offering an ethnographic view into the lives of hustlers and gangsters, confidence artists and street lawyers. This article examines two usury manga titles as morality tales that speak to the widespread anxiety caused by the personal debt crisis...

... and absolve the residents of all earthly memories. As the tale progresses, the coder learns that he is the sole survivor among test subjects who received neurosurgical implants that use the human brain as an encryption mechanism, while the librarian realizes that he is the coder’s imaginary alter ego born out...

..., nonessentialist difference. The author examines Kim Sŏkpŏm’s specific solutions to this critical impasse in his works of fiction, particularly Karasu no shi ( The Death of a Crow , 1957) and Mandogi yūrei kitan ( The Curious Tale of Mandogi’s Ghost , 1970), demonstrating that Kim is able to destabilize...

...Brian Tsui This article revisits reformatories set up under Nationalist China from 1928–37 to transform former Communists into loyal nationalist subjects. By examining confessions attributed to inmates and scandalous tales of Communists published by reformatories, it argues that these institutions...

... to colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), beginning in the late seventeenth century, as exiles, slaves, and soldiers. Two storytelling contexts set in mid-to late nineteenth-century British Ceylon are discussed: the first centers on the Qur’anic tale of the prophet Nuh (Noah) and his ark, typically viewed...

... generation's trauma is received by the generation after in the form of family tales, journals, recordings, strained parent‐child relationships, invested sentiments in family bicycles, and even supernatural experiences, the article discusses the way the historical past is invoked as “affective archives...

... that her writing of Springtime Tale [Chuntian de tonghua] was intended to continue and com- plement Zhang’s “Love Must Not Be Forgotten3 It was a continuation not just in terms of their similar thematic concerns about love, marriage...

... , 227 – 44 . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press . Cormack Bradin . 2011 . “ Shakespeare’s Other Sovereignty: On Particularity and Violencein The Winter’s Tale and the Sonnets .” Shakespeare Quarterly 62 , no. 4 : 485 – 513 . Gabriel Sharmani Patricia . 2011...

... of translations into Chinese of European classics like Grimm’s Fairy Tales (undertaken by Zhou Zuoren) or Alice in Wonder- land (completed in 1922 by Zhao Yuanren) or the creation of original literary and musical works for Chinese children...

... 364 The tale was written in 1990This fact in itself prompts one to ask what violent intervention the crackdown of June 4, 1989, potentially brought about. The surface text of “Whistling” and, in fact, most...

...Tomiko Yoda 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Literary History against the National Frame, or Gender and the Emergence of Heian Kana Writing Tomiko Yoda A number of narrative tales and diaries written during the mid-Heian period are counted among...

... literary treatments of catastrophes and examines how each author instead of affirming a unified affective economy, fractures it. My primary texts draw from Yang Xianhui's Dingxi gu'er yuan jishi 定西孤儿院纪事 ( Tales of Dingxi Orphanage ) (2007), a collection of oral history accounts of the Great Famines...

... by Fischer Joseph , 140 – 41 . Berkeley : University of California . Joaquin Nick . 1978 . “ The Filipino as English Fictionist .” Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 6 , no. 3 : 118 – 24 . Joaquin Nick . 2017 . The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical...