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positions (2006) 14 (3): 535–566.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Hajime Nakatani Duke University Press 2006 The Empire of Fame: Writing and the Voice in Early Medieval China
Hajime Nakatani
Jacques Derrida’s assault on phonocentrism has altered the very ground on
which one addresses the question of orality...
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positions (2006) 14 (3): 633–662.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Margaret Hillenbrand Duke University Press 2006 The National Allegory Revisited:
Writing Private and Public in Contemporary Taiwan
Margaret Hillenbrand
The idea for this article began some time ago when I gave a presentation on
questions...
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positions (2008) 16 (3): 601–628.
Published: 01 August 2008
... and vocabularies specific to a hybrid colonial culture. It is the more contoured and ambivalent dynamics of colonial race relations that the senryu poetry brings forth, which, in turn, questions the existing narratives of Japanese colonialism. Duke University Press 2008 Writing Colonial Relations of Everyday...
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positions (1993) 1 (1): 194–223.
Published: 01 February 1993
...James A. Fujii Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Writing Out Asia: Modernity, Canon, and
Natsume Soseki‘s Kokoro
James A. Fujii
I was invited to present a paper at a symposium held at the National
University of Singapore...
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positions (2012) 20 (1): 159–171.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Rolando B. Tolentino The article maps out a political place for positions based on the idea of “writing to the future” or a political wager on the future precisely because of the valences of failure in the present. Using Alain Badiou's idea of truth and the state, and citing the conditions...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 547–577.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Robert Oppenheim This article makes a case, in the study of Korea's colonial modern transition, for supplementing the examination of writings with attention to historical modalities of writing itself considered as a material inscriptive practice, and thus also for the interdisciplinary engagement...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 801–851.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Press 2013 (ReWriting History of the Second World War: Forgetting and Remembering the
Taiwanese-Native Japanese Soldiers in Postwar Taiwan
Shi-chi Mike Lan
Writing history is more than remembering and recording what happened
in the past...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (2): 517–540.
Published: 01 May 2014
... to an alternate ideological position. Through a close reading of two of his works, “Suzuki, Miyakoyama, Yasojima” (1935) and “The Novelist Who Cannot Write a Novel” (“Shôsetsu no kakenu shôsetsuka,” 1936), this article investigates the “position” Nakano turned “to” and the critical potency of his thinking...
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 250–273.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Thomas LaMarre Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Writing Doubled Over, Broken:
Provisional Names, Acrostic Poems, and the Perpetual Contest of
Doubles in Heian Japan
Thomas LaMarre
It has now become nearly impossible to think of writing in early...
Journal Article
Nakagami Kenji's Mystic Writing Pad; Or, Tracing Origins, Tales of the Snake, and the Land as Matrix
positions (1995) 3 (1): 224–254.
Published: 01 February 1995
...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...
Journal Article
positions (1995) 3 (1): 69–96.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Hu Ying Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 The Translator Transfigured: lin Shu and the Cultural logic of
Writing in the late Qing
Hu Ying
It might seem that the translator ought, despite or perhaps because of his or her
oath...
Journal Article
positions (1996) 4 (3): 595–636.
Published: 01 August 1996
...Carole Cavanaugh Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Text and Textile: Unweaving the Female Subiect in Heian Writing
Carole Cavanaugh
Attention to appearance, design, adornment, and color culminated in the
tenth and eleventh...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 815–840.
Published: 01 November 2020
...’ ” (“ ‘Invisible Families’ under the Spell of ‘Human Rights’ ”) . In Kamen no Kuni , 65 – 92 . Tokyo : Shinchōsha . Miri Yū . 2004 . Hachigatsu no hate (The End of August) . Tokyo : Shinchōsha . Broken Narratives, Multiple Truths: Writing History in Yu¯ Miri s The End of August Kristina...
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positions (2021) 29 (2): 423–450.
Published: 01 May 2021
... cultural consciousness exhibited by the non‐Han people such as the Qiang people from southwest China. The article argues that minority groups like the Qiang are enthusiastic about “enterprising” their ethnic identities by writing minority histories into the foundational myths of a multiethnic, unified...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 865–893.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of hecha ji texts (written recollections of tea–drinking sessions) as a distinctive form of writing that is functional to the construction of counter–public spheres of dissent in the tightening authoritarian environment of Xi Jinping's China today. 11 The “river crab banquet” was a gathering...
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 1 Yokota Hiroshi writing the character for poem followed by his name in a still from Goodbye CP (Hara 1972 ).
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positions (2024) 32 (3): 713–744.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Danzhou Li Abstract As socially engaged art has played a vibrant role in responding to the crisis of the postmodernist art regime, the current post-Occupy condition has manifested itself in artistic interventions in rural China. In contrast to social writing , which encompasses street art...
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positions (1998) 6 (2): 394–438.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Lingzhen Wang Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998
Retheorizing the Personal: Identity, Writing, and Gender
in Yu Luojin’s Autobiographical Act
Lingzhen Wang
Yu Luojin was widely regarded as China’s most controversial woman...
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positions (1999) 7 (1): 253–267.
Published: 01 February 1999
...Venkat Rao Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Commentary
Writing Orally: Decolonization from Below
Venkat Rao
Gaddar is not the name of the person whose work I am discussing here but,
rather, of a movement and of a party...
Journal Article
positions (2000) 8 (2): 465–497.
Published: 01 May 2000
...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...
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