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Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Tani Barlow; Brian Hammer Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction: War Capital Trauma
The common agreement among the essays...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (1): 15–37.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Kenneth Surin Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Conceptualizing Trauma, but What about Asia?
Kenneth Surin
Psychiatry knows traumatophile types.
— Walter Benjamin, “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire”
Trauma
It is surely...
Journal Article
positions (2007) 15 (3): 457–486.
Published: 01 August 2007
...Bruce Suttmeier Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Seeing Past Destruction: Trauma and History in Kaiko¯ Takeshi
Bruce Suttmeier
Twenty years ago I watched a man die on a trail near the village of My Khe. I
did not kill him. But I...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (1): 109–130.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Boreth Ly Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Of Performance and the Persistent Temporality of Trauma:
Memory, Art, and Visions
Boreth Ly
Physical pain has no voice, but when it at last finds a voice, it begins to tell a story.
— Elaine...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (1): 131–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Thomas Lamarre Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction
Thomas Lamarre
Images of atomic destruction and nuclear apocalypse abound in popular
culture, familiar mushroom clouds...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (1): 229–258.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Rosalind C. Morris Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Giving Up Ghosts: Notes on Trauma and the Possibility
of the Political from Southeast Asia
Rosalind C. Morris
Ghostly Occurrences
In Bao Ninh’s 1991 novel The Sorrow of War, ghosts of the Vietnam War...
Journal Article
positions (2009) 17 (3): 713–740.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Joseph Jonghyun Jeon This article situates Park Chan-wook's Oldboy (2003) in the wake of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) crisis in South Korea and argues that the film's particular emphasis on forgetting signals a turn away both from traditional, Freudian theorizations of trauma and from...
Journal Article
positions (2010) 18 (1): 19–50.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Sudarat Musikawong The visual artwork produced about Thai contemporary political trauma constitutes a “trauma art” expressing a politics of loss—loss of life, loss of history, and loss of leftist memory. While much of the literature on 1970s violence and traumatic memory in Thailand has focused...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (4): 863–892.
Published: 01 November 2023
... traumatic experiences. This article explores the transformation of the representation of historical trauma within South Korean museums over recent decades. By examining the popularization of VR (virtual reality) and other digital media, this article will argue that the display of violence through this new...
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Journal Article
positions (2002) 10 (2): 365–397.
Published: 01 May 2002
...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...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (1): 165–188.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Marilyn Ivy Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Trauma’s Two Times: Japanese Wars and Postwars
Marilyn Ivy
What is it about the notion of trauma that continues to compel, after so
many years of psychoanalytic attention? Can “trauma...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (2): 301–328.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Kyle Ikeda This article examines two early pieces of literary war fiction by Okinawa's leading contemporary writer, Medoruma Shun, that deal with two kinds of unarticulated memories of the Battle of Okinawa: memory constrained by social consequence and the inexpressible memory of trauma. Both...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (4): 793–814.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of affection connects human and nature, embodying the symbiotic relationship among the people, animals, objects, and natural environment of Taiwan. In this sense, historical trauma is articulated in each character's memory about the generation before in relation to the bicycle. In scrutinizing the way the war...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (4): 1041–1066.
Published: 01 November 2012
... repudiated his racialized body as signifying Oriental perfidy. The consequential trauma then provoked the desire for Oriental purity and drove him toward imaginary identification with the putative original nation. The subject fulfilled desire and drive by fetishizing the Confucian junzi identity. I trace how...
Journal Article
positions (2013) 21 (1): 161–187.
Published: 01 February 2013
... are not to be read only as testimonies of war and personal traumas, this article argues that these two texts represent what critic Rocio G. Davis calls “relational life writing” that aims to intervene in the contested terrains of trans-Pacific memories and geopolitics. It further argues that Pham's and Lam's...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (4): 907–930.
Published: 01 November 2014
... flashbacks from a repressed traumatic memory. It is also a recasting of the Oedipus narrative, which to one degree or another is also about memory. In all of Matsumoto's feature films, a character suffers from some form of delusion and/or trauma that materializes in a surging pulse—the spectral return...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (3): 653–667.
Published: 01 August 2016
... Korea?” Notes from the Divided Country in many ways grapples with this very question and can be seen as an effort to remember the “Forgotten War” through vivid, chilling, moving poems that depict the enduring trauma of wartime violence from the perspective of diasporic postmemory. Taking Hirsch's work...
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positions (2017) 25 (2): 389–429.
Published: 01 May 2017
.... The discussion in the text also illuminates a second idea—how complex is Japan's position toward the trauma of defeat and the specters of war, reflecting the complicated emotions experienced toward war memory and its representation in photographs, films, art, and other visual forms. The analysis of the two...
Journal Article
positions (2020) 28 (4): 729–755.
Published: 01 November 2020
... witness to the physical violence and psychological trauma of the Holocaust. When Anne Frank Met Astro Boy: Drawing the Holocaust through Manga Ben Whaley We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English, or representatives of any country for that matter, we will always remain Jews, but we want...
Journal Article
positions (2020) 28 (4): 815–840.
Published: 01 November 2020
... is tricked into sexual slavery, The End of August is read against a number of discursive paradigms that govern the debate on comfort women both in Korea and Japan. The article argues that, by drawing on postcolonial ways of understanding history, memory, and trauma, The End of August gives voice to those...
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