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Politics of Doodling: Tamura Toshiko's “A Woman Writer”
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positions (2007) 15 (3): 487–509.
Published: 01 August 2007
...Shu Kuge Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Politics of Doodling: Tamura Toshiko’s “A Woman Writer”
Shu Kuge
In “A Woman Writer” (“Onna sakusha,” 1913), probably Tamura Toshiko’s
best-known short story, it is odd that, despite the title...
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The “Unlikely Writers” from Picun: Reinventing Literature and Politics at the Migrant Workers Home
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 333–355.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the working-class writing subject and fellow workers a sense of dignity and collective identity. Both the Picun writers and the migrant worker writers in general can be considered “unlikely writers.” The term captures their marginality in the cultural field, as well as the struggle to negotiate...
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Representation Crisis: History, Fiction, and Post Martial Law Writers from the “Soldiers' Villages”
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 375–410.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Peng Hsiao-yen This article centers on Zhu Tianwen, Zhu Tianxin, and Zhang Dachun, writers who were born and brought up in the “solders' villages” and have cultivated a condition of marginality that allows them to position themselves as nonbelievers—those who question the truth of any totalizing...
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in “Flat Surface” as Material Metaphor: “Bad” Cover Design, “Good” Storytelling, and Post-Fordist Sensibility in Chinese Web Novels
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Published: 01 August 2024
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Defining a Female Subjectivity: Gendered Gazes and Feminist Reinterpretations in the Art of Cui Xiuwen and Yu Hong
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 177–205.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Lara C. W. Blanchard Cui Xiuwen (b. 1970) and Yu Hong (b. 1966) are contemporary Chinese artists whose images of women reflect a complicated gendered perspective. This article focuses on Cui’s Ladies’ Room (2000) and Yu’s Female Writer (2004, from the series She ). Both can be construed as feminist...
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Rethinking Feminism in Colonial Korea: Kang Kyǒngae and 1930s Socialist Women's Literature
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 947–985.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Sunyoung Park In the early 1930s, a new group of women writers with a leftist inclination emerged on the Korean literary scene. Some critics have questioned the feminist commitment of these writers, suggesting that their works may have subordinated the cause of women's liberation...
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The Images of Russia and Russians in Colonial-Era Korean Literature: The 1930s
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 287–316.
Published: 01 May 2015
... with a number of radical (often Christian) right-wing nationalists, taking a harshly anti-Soviet stance. In the world of literary imagination, however, the images of Russia and Russians offered by the writers of different ideological and political backgrounds were often converging. This essay shows...
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The Hot Sun and the Mad Moon: Hiroshima in South African Literature
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positions (2017) 25 (3): 507–526.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Daniel McKay In 1926 a new shipping route was established between Durban and Osaka, on which Laurens van der Post and William Plomer, fresh from their collaboration as writers for the literary magazine Voorslag , embarked as privileged passengers. The opportunity to reside in Japan would exercise...
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Racial Slurs and Whispers in Situated Testimonies of Dutch Imperial Fiction
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 67–91.
Published: 01 February 2021
... and raised on Java in the Dutch East Indies and who spent more than thirty years there. This article argues that Dermoût is a key writer for understanding affective economies, because she devotes significant time and effort in her fiction to fleshing out Native characters, something that few writers of her...
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I Speak in the Third Person: Women and Language in Colonial Vietnam
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 579–605.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Ben Tran This essay examines the cultural translation of the Western first-person grammatical category into Vietnamese literature during French colonial rule. In the 1930s, Vietnamese writers began to assimilate the first-person pronoun “ tôi ” into their writing. The prevalence of tôi suggests...
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Representing Radical Difference: Kim Sŏkpŏm’s Korea(n) in Japan(ese)
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positions (2019) 27 (3): 499–529.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Cindi Textor This article considers the politics of representing “Korea” in Japanese-language texts, focusing specifically on the work of “Zainichi” writer Kim Sŏkpŏm (1925–). The author begins by identifying parallels between what Kim calls “the spellbinding of language” ( kotoba no jubaku...
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Archipelagic Optics in Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 839–864.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the fields’ geopolitical imagination largely defined by the category of independent nation‐states. To that end, the author turns to Taiwanese writer Wu Ming‐Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes and develops “archipelagic optics” as a transpacific interpretive framework—one that includes the decontinental...
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Epistemic Labor: Narratives of Hyper-Uncertainty and Future-Making on China's Urban Fringe
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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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Literature as Medium: The Development and Cultural Space of New Worker Literature
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 451–471.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that has come into being in the post-Mao era. Third, the fact that a large number of new worker writers are “borrowing” from the language and style of 1980s literature generates a productive relation between the critical spirit of that literature and the alienating conditions under which the new workers...
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The Worker-Poet as the Ethnographic Partner: Documenting the Emotional Pain of Rural Migrant Women
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 403–429.
Published: 01 May 2023
...-specific social and political context, the article's discussion goes beyond the call for a “literary turn” in anthropology. Instead, it argues that for scholars who are serious about understanding the emotional cost of social inequality in China, seeking partnership with China's subaltern writers...
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Multiethnicity and Multilingualism in the Minor Literature of Manchukuo
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 341–362.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., and Arsenii Nesmelov, through their deterritorialized Chinese, Japanese, and Russian stories, demonstrates the range of indigenous and exiled writers in their diverse imagination of Manchukuo’s ambiguous sovereignty. Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 modern Chinese literature multiethnic...
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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
...Inhye Han Abstract This article is the first study that excavates a Korean writer's Chinese‐language play based on Taiwanese farmers’ real‐life events and that identifies its author as playwright, filmmaker, and novelist Li Kyŏngson. During his Shanghai years (1929–32), Li encountered Japanese...
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A Collective Fantasia of the Financial Age in Early 1990s China: Erotic-Speculative Sensation, Neoliberal Labor Heroine, and Presentist Worldly Wisdom
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 573–600.
Published: 01 August 2024
... entrepreneur-cum-writer Leung Fung Yee (b. 1949) and discusses how “Leung fever” (1992 – 93) provided a medium for a collective imagination of the financial age. Leung's fiction introduced “sensuous and lively” financial knowledge particularly attractive to a financially uneducated mainland readership who...
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Building a Global Feminist Alliance for Peace in East Asia
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 481–495.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., historians, cultural workers, educationists, writers, and scholar activists of different areas must undertake long-term sustained work for reconciliation and peace at the grassroots level as well as networking at the regional and global levels. Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 feminism...
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Telling Times: Nick Joaquin, Storyteller
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 121–139.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Vicente L. Rafael Nick Joaquin (1917–2004) is often regarded as the greatest Filipino writer in English, yet he remains largely unknown outside his country. He published widely in all genres and was awarded the National Artist Award, yet he dropped out of high school and spent much of his youth...
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