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Literature by Other Mediums: Revisiting Lu Xun's Preface to Outcry
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 373–398.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the preface as an act of narration, this article scrutinizes textual choices such as the confusing word dianying 电影 (film) and the outcry metaphor. The emergence of both modern vernacular literature and Lu Xun as a major literary figure, it is argued, should be historicized in a broader transnational media...
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Slanted Allusions: Transnational Poetics and Politics of Marilyn Chin and Russell Leong
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positions (2014) 22 (1): 237–262.
Published: 01 February 2014
... to the
desire for exotica or kowtowing to patriarchal authority. Looking askance
at cultural legacies to convey transnational critique is, in fact, one of the
distinctive features of Chinese American literature. By analyzing Chin’s
“Song of the Sad...
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Manufacturing Dissidence: Arts and Letters of North Korea's “Second Culture”
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 743–784.
Published: 01 November 2015
... examines the ongoing Korean War as the backdrop for the neoconservative emergence of human rights critique of North Korea. Examining the transnational funding matrix behind the publication and international circulation of the North Korean defector memoir, specifically the National Endowment for Democracy's...
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What to Expect When You're Expecting: The Affective Economies of Consuming Surrogacy in India
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 281–302.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Sharmila Rudrappa This article builds from the author's transnational fieldwork on surrogacy in India, based on interviews with seventy surrogate mothers, thirty-one egg donors, and twenty intended parents in the United States and Australia. The author's work on global surrogacy is embedded...
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Cambodian American Memory Work: Justice and the “Cambodian Syndrome”
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 805–830.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Cathy J. Schlund-Vials This essay examines the impact of transnational historical amnesias on Cambodian American genocidal remembrance. Arguing that the “Cambodian syndrome” revises the “Vietnam syndrome” in a manner that legitimizes contemporary US and Cambodian governmental power, this essay...
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From Seoul to Paris: Transnational Character in the Work of the Korean National Council of Women in Authoritarian South Korea
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 575–602.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Katri Kauhanen The Korean National Council of Women, a women’s organization established in 1959, has received criticism in Korean literature for its collaboration with the authoritarian regimes that ruled South Korea for decades. This article, however, argues for a different kind of interpretation...
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Crazy English: Nation Strengthening and the Changing Politics of Neoliberal Selfhood in Reform-Era China
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 143–169.
Published: 01 February 2023
... as the language of competitiveness and entrepreneurialism. While there is a growing body of literature examining the English‐learning craze as a facet of the transnational neoliberalization processes, this anthropological study focuses on the frictions generated in the encounter of English, conceived...
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Children's Bodies Are Not Capital: Arduous Cross-Border Mobilities between Shenzhen and Hong Kong
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 353–375.
Published: 01 May 2022
... of symbolic capital that have international recognition and value, not only in the country of origin but also in the country of destination and especially in the transnational spaces where the itineraries of travelling businessmen and professionals intersect.” However, the existing literature has tended...
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Geometries of Fractals and Power: Transnational Marriages, Translocal Marriages, and Asia's Global Ruralities
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 15–40.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Linh Khanh Nguyen Abstract In much of the mobilities literature, a dichotomy exists between the urban and rural. The bulk of studies view the urban as a receiving center, one that is cosmopolitan, diverse, and dynamic, while conflating the rural into its opposite: a backward, boring, and unchanging...
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Undoing the Nation-State-Capital Trinity: Turning Inagaki's Petition into a Korean Playwright's Taiwan
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 233–258.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., the collaborators in Taiwan are not hesitant to ravage lives of Taiwanese people for the sake of profiting themselves. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 anachronism anti‐colonialism anti‐statism anti‐capitalism transnational literature In May 1930...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 281–289.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Petrus Liu; Lisa Rofel In the introduction to the special issue, the guest editors examine the key issues in the current dialogue on Chinese politics and transnational queer formations. The editors explain the origins of the special volume in a transnational queer conference, emphasizing...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 219–243.
Published: 01 May 2022
... ). The robust literature on transnational families, which has dominated discussions of “children and youth in Asian migration,” suffers, however, from its singular concern with gender, a focus that has arisen with the increase in women's migration. Interestingly, the rise of transnational families from male...
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“I Can't Do Anything but Wait”: The Lived Experiences of Children of Transnational Migrants in Lombok, Indonesia
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 277–300.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and contributes to debates about the micropolitics of mobility and immobility that impact most on the youngest members of society. Results of the research provide new data about a population of children who have received less attention in the literature regarding transnational migration in Indonesia...
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Contributors
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 943–946.
Published: 01 August 2012
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second project examines the role of nongovernmental organizations and development agen-
cies in shaping and producing spaces for transnational youth participation and activism.
Mariam B. Lam is associate professor of comparative literature, media...
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positions (1999) 7 (3): 653–666.
Published: 01 August 1999
... are imagined, citizenship is experi-
enced, and identities are formed. Much of the literature on the transnational
is actually about the movements of finance, commodities, images, ideas, and
people across state borders, and not so much about...
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Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Beyond the Marxism/Poststructuralism/Feminism Divides
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 430–445.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Caren Kaplan; Inderpal Grewal Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Roundtable
Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies:
Beyond the Marxism/Poststructura(/sm/FeminismDivides
Caren Kaplan and lnderpal Grewal
Transnational feminism is neither...
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Contributors
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positions (2011) 19 (3): 799–800.
Published: 01 August 2011
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Language and Literature of Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of Excess and
Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions and Chinese Face/Off: The Transnational
Popular Culture of Hong Kong He is currently working on a book on minority nation...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 771–796.
Published: 01 November 2024
... . Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900–1937 . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Lu Sheldon Hsiao-peng , ed. 1997 . Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press . Martin...
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Editor's Introduction: Conditions of Seeing
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positions (2025) 33 (2): 197–201.
Published: 01 May 2025
... photojournalism, film, animation, visual art, literature, and ethnography. Whether through the speculative visions of transnational adoptees and feminist artists or critical framings of militarisms and disasters, these articles challenge us to look beyond simplistic narratives of success and failure and instead...
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Behind Global Spectacle and National Image Making
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positions (2001) 9 (1): 161–186.
Published: 01 February 2001
... images, can only be considered
a single hue among an array of vivid colors.As domestic products began
to foreground their Chineseness, U.S. or Western transnational companies
were still, nonetheless, viewed as representing the world.In 1997–1998...
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