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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Nicolai Volland Abstract This article revisits Sinophone literature from the archipelagic region of the western Pacific to understand how thinking with and through the ocean shapes patterns of place-making and identity formation. Scrutinizing stories by Syaman Rapongan and Ng Kim Chew, the article...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 538–553.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., the Han writers in Mengjiang expressed their ethnic identity through Sinophone literature; at the same time, Sinicized Mongol intellectuals failed to revive Mongolian culture through the same vehicle. In the end, both the former Han despots and the new Japanese colonizers tried to instrumentalize Mongol...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 428–437.
Published: 01 September 2022
... 2022 Lingnan University 2022 Sinophone Malaysian Literature minority representation counter-discourse power Since Malaysia was incorporated in 1963, the ethnic Chinese community in Malaysia has lamented its marginalization by the Malay-Bumiputra elite. They have faced widespread...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
... 2022 Lingnan University 2022 Sinophone mesology Nanyang literature xenophone There is an elephant in the theoretical room: while theory is purportedly without boundary lines, Sinophone theoreticians have, by and large, been eager to draw inspiration from anywhere but China. I contend...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... a definitive role in shaping the dynamics and critical terms of Chinese literature and culture as a whole. Copyright © 2019 Lingnan University 2019 border boundary Sinophone Cold War form At the center of Kevin Kwan's (1973−) novel Crazy Rich Asians , which inspired the Hollywood hit film...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
... pseudocolonial aesthetic.” In “Counter-discourse: Strategies of Representing Ethnic Minorities in Sinophone Malaysian Literature,” Boon Eng Khor uses a Foucauldian notion of counter-discourse to examine the interplay of valorizing and pejorative connotations that run through many literary descriptions...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 374–393.
Published: 01 September 2022
... cultural and linguistic dependency on the “other” into a signature asset, as Lai Shihe suggests: “Singapore is small in territory and population, yet its writers are not discouraged by this. . . . They use the small to overcome the big and the many, making flash fiction Sinophone Singaporean literature's...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 409–430.
Published: 01 October 2021
... writer who establishes herself within the dominant tradition of Chinese literature. As one of the few prominent Sinophone Uyghur writers, she inevitably becomes a token that sustains the rhetoric of Chinese literature as inclusive and diverse. Along this line of thought, the article argues that Padi...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Cheow Thia Chan Abstract Recent studies on Singapore Chinese literature have employed analytical lenses such as the Sinophone and postloyalism, which are exogenous to the historical and everyday experiences in the region that produced the texts. This article proposes using the lens of the Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 411–427.
Published: 01 September 2022
... 羅廣斌 and Yang Yiyan 楊益言 . Hong yan 紅岩 [Red Crag]. Beijing : Zhongguo qingnian chubanshe , 1961 . Ng Kim Chew 黃錦樹 . Huawen xiaowenxue de Malaixiya ge'an 華文小文學的馬來西亞個案 [Minor Sinophone Literature: The Case of Malaysia]. Taipei : Maitian , 2015 . Ng Kim Chew 黃錦樹 . “ Yi yi feng...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the “nowness” and “futurity” of the past. In other words, digital configuration has shed new light on the structure of knowledge and feeling in relation to the legacies—as well as the potentials—of tradition. Here are a few examples drawn from recent Chinese/Sinophone literature. Liu Cixin's “Poetry Cloud...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 501–525.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and Sinophone literary studies range from an implicit aversion to non-Sinitic-language texts to their explicit exclusion. The consequence, however, is that texts that would otherwise be considered works of Chinese literature based on their content and/or combinations of other factors are condemned...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 102–124.
Published: 01 March 2022
... discourse should properly be considered Sinophone, for it operates outside of and indeed against mainstream ideologies, conveying a cynicism toward modern society and an ethos of disenchantment. This article has presented examples from Sinophone literature and art across different genres, all...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
Published: 01 September 2022
... relevant, but it does suggest that the sentiments are not real anymore. What is the relevance of a story like this to Sinophone Malaya/Malaysia or Singapore literature? How do we discuss the politics of this specimen of Cold War culture? We could of course consider this story as a case study...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 143–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
... compelling and uncompromising. In contemporary China and the sinophone world, few match Liu Zaifu's fervor for literature. For decades, he has arduously explored “the third space” by gauging the latitude of “the literary heart.” Liu writes with such lyricism and exuberance that he almost presents like...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
... in the area of language and literature. But the extant paradigm of Sinophone studies tends to reject mainland China and embrace overseas Chinese-speaking communities in terms of the postcolonial, dichotomous model, thus simplifying the tentacular relations in between. As a matter of fact, it replicates...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 367–394.
Published: 01 September 2023
... that ways of constructing transnational Chinese identity through digital technology differ substantially from the forms of Sinophone culture that characterize the field's existing emphasis on written literature and film, as a virtual community of players can be called into being through the highly...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
... postcolonial scholarship that highlights the possibility that resistance to hegemonic centers may emanate from geographical or metaphorical frontiers. Shu-mei Shih, for example, treats Sinophone literature—Sinitic literature from Chinese-speaking communities outside mainland China or ethnic peripheries within...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 479–500.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Li Wen Jessica Tan Abstract This article examines Wei Beihua's modernist works, which have receded into the shadows of Sinophone Malayan (Mahua) literary history, in relation to Indonesian poet Chairil Anwar, to excavate a neglected route of transculturation at the height of Southeast Asia's...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
... discussions of leftist literature with his southbound and Sinophone Burmese compatriots with his firsthand experience and observations of brute exploitation and the maltreatment of marginalized figures during his travels, the “street university” enabled the literary emergence of Ai Wu's own “life philosophy...
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