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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
...—are subject to radical rethinking. This article proposes a paradigm of border as method for Chinese literary studies, following the lead of Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson's volume by the same title. Border as method refers to a reflexive glance at the cognitive bordering that we as knowledge producers...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... these borderlands of the Eastern Himalayas, burgeoning populations, propelled by sociopolitical agendas, ecological disasters, and other factors, stress borders and resources in areas increasingly open to exploitation by regional and international corporations and governments. Minority poetic voices throughout...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... courage and aesthetic perfection in his vision of a wholesome China. Through his ethnically themed novellas and short stories, Shen is both heir to and questions the Confucian tradition of locating a civilizational “other” in the non-Sinitic/non-Han border regions. The article further reveals how Shen...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
... area of northeastern China that borders Inner Mongolia and was occupied by Japan in the early 1930s. The novel has been read by many as a realistic portrait of the natural and social landscape of the grassland and as an autobiographical account of the author's family history. This article disagrees...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Levi S. Gibbs Abstract This article looks at three contemporary novels where songs sung by rural women from the border region of northern Shaanxi Province evoke cultural and temporal hybridities, fusing social continuity with the threat and promise of change. The novels alternately portray untamed...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 409–430.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the PRC's ethnic minority policy to examine the implications of the protagonist's cultural, linguistic, and geopolitical border-crossing as she comes to terms with ethnic amalgamation as a necessary mode of survival. This allows the novel to be read as a symptom of Padi Guli's status as a Sinophone Uyghur...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
... shadows” at the end of day. And the historical series of its English translations offers a picture of ever more condensed and stripped-down utterance, as if straining at the borders of the sayable in the effort to display an exotic worldview. But the quatrain, famous though it is in isolation, is but one...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 March 2023
... this narrow and still predominant conception of world literature as literature that travels beyond the borders of its nation and language of origin. A literary work need not, however, be translated to participate in a literary context shaped by translation. From its outset in the early 1970s, many years...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 432–455.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., and successors of canonical writers beyond national and imperial spaces. Literature should be seen as conjunctions instead of fixed texts. 70 In other words, world literature could be understood as a set of new practices of literature production and reception without borders. Given that the recent...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., from Inner Mongolia to Tibet, and from Nanyang 南洋 (Southeast Asia) to Nanmei 南美 (Latin America). It reflects on the recent, interdisciplinary growth in understanding the characteristics of borders and frontiers, including migration and settlement, cultural hybridity, and transnationalism. It also...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 157–166.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to border control worldwide, with many countries stringently restricting entry by nonresidents (and, in some instances, even locking out their own citizens and residents for extended periods of time), and this increased vigilance about border security has inevitably helped fuel nationalist and xenophobic...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 244–247.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., Petrus Liu, and Akira Mizuta Lippit, focuses on processes of area and knowledge formation, calling attention to acts of temporal and spatial bordering that implicate the United States and Europe in an ongoing projection of alterity and misrecognition of self. The second, “Politics of the Sensuous: Love...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... system now when borders are closed and when commodity chains and labor markets are disrupted reminds us that Mahua is a node in the global economy, a point of access that also receives, re-creates, and reexports literary ideas and myths, unconstrained by national boundaries and origins. This is how I...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 199–202.
Published: 01 March 2020
... analysis of key works. While tracing the formation and development of the political novel, she asks how stable the conventions of the genre were as it moved across borders via translation and became adapted and reimagined in different cultural, social, and political contexts. In part 2, titled “Bringing...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 211–220.
Published: 01 October 2019
... group all engage with questions of mapping, including not only the assignation of geopolitical borders but also processes of conceptual categorization and differentiation—and particularly how we may understand the categories of China and Asia themselves. The first group of essays attend...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 501–525.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of Chinese literature to be found if not at the very borders of Chineseness? In considering the Chineseness of Chinese literature, there are many approaches that one might take. The one I will focus on in this essay foregrounds the role of language. A critical if often implicit feature of Chinese...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 457–474.
Published: 01 October 2020
... boundaries. Indeed, the very definition of theory —a set of ideas capable of fruition in places other than their place of germination—requires it to cross all manner of borders. 30 For complicated historical, cultural, and political reasons that exceed the scope of this article, China has not generated...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... sent-down youth ( zhiqing 知青) such as Jiang Rong, who moved from urban centers to ethnically diverse border regions during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), appropriates indigenous ecological perspectives to criticize Maoist destruction of the environment and concomitant undermining of neo...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 456–478.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and lived among cross-border opium traffickers), and colonial Rangoon embodied the polemic duality of “an exotic region of profusive color and ahell-on-earth with dark hues.” 7 The volume's early Yunnan-based stories establish a repeating pattern of trespass and eviction: seemingly aimless southbound...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the planetary? One approach, which I explore elsewhere, is inspired by Walter Mignolo, who suggests we think-act from the embodied position of inhabiting the border: “I sensed [the border], and sensing is something that invades your emotions, and your body responds to it, dictating to the mind what the mind...
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