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Counter-discourse: Strategies of Representing Ethnic Minorities in Sinophone Malaysian Literature
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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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The Cultural Creation of the Ethnic Korean Minority in China: Focusing on the Portrayal of Local Landscape in Post-1949 Korean-Chinese Literature
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 526–537.
Published: 01 October 2021
... . Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 Korean-Chinese literature 1950s literature local landscape political agency minority identity Before the Japanese empire collapsed in 1945, a significant number of Korean writers had moved to Japanese-occupied Manchukuo (1932–1945), inspired...
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Conciliatory Amalgamation: The Politics of Survival in Sinophone Uyghur Writer Padi Guli's A Hundred Years of Bloodline
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 409–430.
Published: 01 October 2021
...E. K. Tan Abstract Published in 2015, Padi Guli's A Hundred Years of Bloodline tells the story of Fatima, a Uyghur woman's journey to unpack her family history while struggling to understand the status of ethnic minorities in the larger fabric of multiethnic China. The novel concludes...
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Treading Poetic Borders in Southwest China and Northeast India
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Mark Bender Abstract Since the 1980s ethnic minority poets writing in the borderlands of Southwest China and Northeast India emerged on the world stage from within currents of dramatic environmental, political, economic, and demographic change, cresting in momentum by the 2010s. Within...
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Between Colonialism and Despotism: Sinophone Nationalist Literature in Japanese-Occupied Inner Mongolia, 1936–1945
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 538–553.
Published: 01 October 2021
...” or “written in Sinographs.” Shu-mei Shih coined the notion of the Sinophone to designate both ethnic minority cultures in China and cultures of settlement and immigration outside China that speak a Sinitic language. 2 Until now, most research on Sinophone literature has looked at literature written outside...
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The Making and Unmaking of Nationalist Literature from the National Margin: Rereading Duanmu Hongliang's Ke'erqin Qi caoyuan (The Korchin Banner Plains) as Borderland Writing
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Duanmu was giving interviews in the 1980s, the circumstances concerning the Manchus and other ethnic minorities in China had changed drastically. Newly implemented minority policies after the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) had induced a surge of self-identified ethnic populations and a heightened...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 315–320.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of China (ROC) in 1911; and from the Soviet-inspired “ethnic minorities” ( shaoshu minzu 少數民族) system, implemented after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), to the latest promotion of China as a solidarity of “Multinationalities” ( duominzu guojia 多民族國家). Meanwhile, scholars have...
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“Natural” Disasters and Disaster Relief: Ecoethnic Politics in Alai's Epic of Ji Village
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 50–76.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the brigade leader denounces Wang for “offending the customs of ethnic minorities,” Wang, surprisingly, “feels relieved and the sense of guilt in his heart disappeared.” 30 How does this accusation on the grounds of ethnic relationships make Wang feel reassured and justified about his behavior instead...
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Shen Congwen's Idealized Ethnic: Borderland, Ethnicity, and the Spiritual Enchantments of a Modern Master
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as “imaginary spatial representations of the geographical and physical aspects of minority regions,” Shen creates an ethnic heterotopia; such a heterotopia is an alternative cultural and spatial locale, which questions the center's social, cultural, and political order, problematizing dominant narratives...
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Ecology as Method
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... (Mongoliya, 2014), attempts to broach taboo subjects such as the exploitation of pasturelands by ruthless coal mining firms and self-immolation among ethnic minorities to protest policies aimed at acculturation. It features the narrator's spiritual quest for his shamanic roots; adventures of Henning Haslund...
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The Cultural Hybridity of Chineseness: Regional Transgression in Stories of Northern Shaanxi
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of the nation—a civilized, Confucian, cultural, and technological vanguard. 9 Chinese intellectuals have not only envisioned China's ethnic minorities as below yet moving upward through vertical stages toward the “modern” Han, 10 but have also extended the “backwardness” formerly ascribed to barbarians...
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Grief, Translation, and the “Asian American Woman” in Hong Kong
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 224–235.
Published: 01 March 2022
... as a minority discourse de-essentializes the meanings of race when the discipline is transplanted in a place where Asians constitute a racial, if not ethnic, majority.” 7 The constructed nature of the “Asian” of Asian American identity becomes particularly clear within the actual region of Asia...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
... by its focus on failure, specifically the Malayan Communist Party's ultimate failure to carry out a revolution. 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...
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Border as Method
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... in place its own borders that are yet to be critically confronted. It remains a matter of controversy, for instance, whether the term Sinophone literature should be reserved for “the Sinitic-language communities and cultures outside China as well as ethnic minority communities and cultures within China...
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Ethnic Loyalty versus Spring Fancy: Gender and Southeast Asia in Hei Ying's Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 474–490.
Published: 01 September 2022
... that ultimately produces the transgressive PRC ethnic minority women of, for instance, Gao Xingjian's 高行健 Lingshan 靈山 (Soul Mountain). In the words of Dru C. Gladney: “The objectified portrayal of minorities as exoticized, and even eroticized, is essential to the construction of the Han Chinese majority...
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Of Wind, Soil, and Water: On the Mesology of Sinophone/Xenophone Southeast Asian Literature
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of Sinitic-language cultures rather than of ethnicity and nationality. One discerns in Shih's endeavor a complex of theoretical efforts, from postcolonial criticism to minority studies, from humanist Marxism to multiculturalism. Of these theories, postcolonialism stands out as her main stake. Shih...
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Future Emotions and Senses: Chen Qiufan's Science Fiction of the Anthropocene
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 196–218.
Published: 01 March 2024
... theme in Chen Qiufan's recent stories. Environmental injustice is closely linked to the hierarchical structures of our present world, determined by gender, race/ethnicity, class, and species. The empowerments of female subjects, ethnic minorities, the underprivileged, and the precarious human...
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Fluid Horizons: Oceanic Epistemologies and Sinophone Literature
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to a remote island, inhabited by some of Malaya's ethnic minority peoples. He learns that a “most cherished friend” belonging to the royal family has secretly intervened to spare his life, but only on the condition that he sign a pledge to live forever on the island, to never again contact his friends...
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Recreating the World in Twenty-First-Century Philippine Chinese Speculative Fiction
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., 1662, 1762, and 1820. 33 “Fold Up Boy” is a recovery of the repressed minority past—a Filipino Chinese speculative narrative of incomprehensible ethnic violence and death, forgotten in the murky recesses of Philippine colonial annals, and twisted and trashed in the cobwebs of the Spanish...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 181–192.
Published: 01 March 2022
... contemporary Asian American hate requires a more explicit focus on countering invisibility. This objective, necessitated by the ways in which ethnic Asians have been systematically elided and rendered as foreign throughout US history, should focus exclusively on educating Americans about Chinese Exclusion...
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