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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 428–437.
Published: 01 September 2022
... other ethnic minorities, focusing on four approaches to forging counter-discourses used in the literary representation of minorities: binary opposition, rhetorical questions, paradoxical statements, and bystander narration. The discussion of each narrative strategy is supported by examples from works...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... 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 of Malaysia's ethnic minorities...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 456–471.
Published: 01 October 2019
... method a form of counter-actualization. Therefore this approach runs the risk of not being able to extricate itself from the imperial assumptions implicit in the discourse of Asia as entity. With respect to Takeuchi's example regarding concepts of freedom and equality that were developed in Europe...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of creolization and her anti-China agenda. Jing Tsu, meanwhile, has offered a counter-discourse of “Sinophone governance.” 29 That is, insofar as language is an articulation associated less with nativity than with acquisition, Sinophone status need not be a token of ethnicity destined to disappear; rather...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 430–456.
Published: 01 October 2020
... . Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-discourse in Post-Mao China , edited by Jinhua Dai , 2nd ed., rev. and exp. ed. Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2002 . Chengde minzu shizhuan xuebao 承德民族師專學報 [ Journal of Chengde Teachers College for Nationalities ]. “ Quanguo gaodeng shifan yuanxiao...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 248–250.
Published: 01 March 2022
... the internet or social media to build counter-memories. Animated by mesmerizing stories, each of the six chapters of Utopian Ruins exemplifies a model of scholarship that seamlessly interconnects solid archival digging, informed theoretical guidance, and holistic yet nuanced in-depth analysis. Although...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... Chinese cosmological myths to counter the discourse of progress and technoscientific rationality prevalent in the early twentieth century. This opening article aptly exemplifies our collective endeavor to cross boundaries between modern and premodern studies, between Western and Chinese literary...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of pre-modern and prehistorical nature. 8 To counter this new myth, Benjamin resorted to old dreams, ancient cosmology, and ecological traditions. His use of myth to critique modernity exemplifies the dialectic of enlightenment and myth expounded by Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) and Theodor W. Adorno...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
...; instead of dropping seeds from airplanes, it drops incendiary bombs over cities; and through gas warfare the aura is abolished in a new way.” 8 The technoscientific utopia turned overnight into the ruins of dystopia. To counter this new myth, Benjamin resorted to old dreams, ancient cosmology...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., some actors and characters counter the idea that sexualization, as a form of self-performance, is demeaning. This theory holds true for meta-cinematic and meta-theatrical works such as M. Butterfly and Double Happiness . Yellow fever has also led to the bifurcated imaginations of Asian women...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
...). The narrator describes one of these songs as a “lullaby” ( L , 97), alluding to the way that Jialin, although a grown man, is being metaphorically nurtured like a newborn baby by the land and traditions of those who have come before him. This rearing, however, runs counter to the civilizing discourse of urban...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of substantive, holistic rationality. Justifying the recovery of such ancient wish-images, Adorno wrote, “So long as progress, deformed by utilitarianism, does violence to the surface of the earth, it will be impossible . . . to completely counter the perception that what antedates the trend is in its...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of their passions and spiritual pursuits in his fictional work. Rather than proposing that these ethnically themed pieces run counter to his other native soil writing, I argue for how ethnic motifs enrich Shen's literary oeuvre and place him as a unique thinker within the discourse of ethnicity in Republican-era...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 225–247.
Published: 01 March 2023
... is a gendered one. The masculine subject utters the language “I want to shui (take) you” as a way of asserting (sexual) power, evoking an effect of dominion. To counter the symbolic order, the feminine subject of the poem enunciates a speech act violating the normative gender expectations. It is precisely...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in the end to counter Confucian expectations that they behave like a proper woman and a dutiful wife, they can at least move away or step aside, even if temporarily. For instance, the female protagonist of “Lanse xingqiliu” 藍色星期六 (Blue Saturday) travels between Vietnam, Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong after...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 March 2022
... or antirevolutionary,” or “either good man or bad man,” eliminating the neutral position. Such logic abolishes the option of the third route and only leaves two opposing routes: either break or maintain the status quo. 34 Averse to using prevalent terms such as annulling ( qing 清), countering against ( fan 反...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-authored works on a grand and very public scale. 12 Despite the actual Ling Bo's embrace of the Republic of China as homeland, the emotionally charged mass following that she developed on her first and subsequent visits to Taiwan both facilitated and ran counter to the state's narrative of the Republic...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the groundwork for his theoretical injunction of Asia as method. For Mizoguchi, on the other hand, “China as method” amounts to a deliberate strategy for countering Japanese sinology's habitual way of thinking that “took the world as the goal and reckoned China's degree of progress (or disparity) using the world...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2023
.... The translator's intended fidelity in intercultural translating can be interpreted as his countering the receiving culture's yi discourse that insulted the source culture. As Lydia H. Liu points out, although yi was not always used to refer to foreigners historically, that the Chinese character yi...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 9–26.
Published: 01 March 2021
... as if he were his own son” 瑞娘愛若親生. 70 Nonetheless, neither Ruilang's self-castration nor his self-confinement succeeds in countering the homoerotic public. The reason both ways fail to curtail the public desire for him, I argue, is their shared rootedness in the realms of si . On the one hand...
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