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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 11. A reference to recognition technologies and the chair as a material signifier of authority in Two or Three Things about Interrupted Dream , 2021. Courtesy of Zuni Icosahedron.
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
... readers in our age of eco-crisis. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Lingnan University 2024 dystopia humanism posthumanism materialism crisis As ecocatastrophe becomes an increasingly greater possibility, so will the occasions for environmental apocalyptic expression. . . . Can...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 March 2023
... author as the “face” of an entire genre, in this case Zheng Xiaoqiong. Next, it proposes the notion of hypertranslatability, and it shows how this helps explain the ubiquity of Zheng in foreign work on battler poetry to date. The article mostly dwells on material in English, but the subject matter...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 271–284.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the cruelties of biopolitics but nevertheless celebrate the fact that “life” is never bare. For them, ionizing radiation acts like the COVID cough did for many of us: not as an invitation to critique the state but as a material intrusion that forces an awareness of what Rocco Ronchi, in his response to Agamben...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 157–173.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Michelle Yeh Abstract This article provides the first comprehensive study of the use of ancient Greek and Roman allusions and motifs in the poetry of Yang Mu. By focusing on representative works from Yang's oeuvre, the study sheds light on how the poet's appropriations of Greco-Roman materials...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 119–134.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and furnishing building material, the brick testifies to a practice that combines labor and art and a biological rebirth associated with the fertility of the earth. The brick is not only useful but also aesthetically resonant. Working closely with the workers in the fields and workshops rather than from urban...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 163–176.
Published: 01 March 2023
... that deals with the problem of the incommensurability of the material conditions of languages to one of translation as transcending such incommensurability. In fact, the poem is here to be considered as both an original and a translation at the same time. Primary questions include: Where does this poem begin...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... These authors find speculative fiction a fruitful genre for combining Western literary techniques and material gleaned from Philippine myth and folklore. References Alip, Eufronio M. The Chinese in Manila . Manila : National Historical Institute , 1993 . Botting, Fred , and Justin D. Edwards...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 442–461.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Liang Luo Abstract This article examines the 2019 Cantonese opera film White Snake as an important case of an evolving “digital classicism,” making use of audience-based digitally produced and transmitted Chinese-language materials, among other sources. The article contextualizes the Cantonese...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 297–314.
Published: 01 September 2023
... novelist invokes the radical belief in the power of wen 文 (letters) to intervene in sociopolitical crises. It is a belief that aligns with the avant-garde's core spirit of coming to the rescue of a society through aesthetic means. In deconstructing the temporality and materiality of literary texts, Chen...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 54–76.
Published: 01 March 2023
... for illustrating how Chinese writers like Zhou took pains to embrace the world of Romanticism beyond China through traditional Chinese sensual and sentimental lyricism. Through an examination of Zhou's selection and discussion of the poems and stories, as well as the paratextual materials included...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 33–61.
Published: 01 March 2019
... later became known as the author Lu Xun 魯迅, and his disparaging reminiscence about Meiyu caused the magazine to be all but forgotten for nearly a century. In this article, the authors use a wide variety of archival material to reconstruct the complex publishing history of the magazine, as well...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 346–367.
Published: 01 October 2019
... series throws critical light on Hong Kong's coerced “swallowing” of a China excessive in its material aggrandizement, restoring the power of imagination of possible futures not dictated by Hong Kong's increasing integration with China. Finally, this essay suggests that cannibalism, viewed through...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 432–455.
Published: 01 October 2019
... bifurcation of the Chinese written language, which should not be considered as unified vis-à-vis the diversification of the verbal languages. Supported with many concrete examples, the essay demonstrates the different kinds of political struggles involved in the publication of the same materials in the two...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 298–319.
Published: 01 October 2019
... that posits an imaginary vantage point. Panorama as method notes the use of scale, recording of the skyline, and mediation of the cityscape. The article asks what material conditions and ideological circumstances allow for the existence of the images at hand and what brings us to identify them as panoramic...
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in The Logic of the Void: Translation, Indigeneity, and Islands in Taiwanese Ecological Fiction
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1. Stills from Karrabing Film Collective, The Jealous One , 2017, film, color, 29 min. The top right and left stills represent settler colonial Newtonian void aesthetics and material governance of land rights; the bottom right and left images embody Indigenous QFT aesthetics
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 3–18.
Published: 01 March 2019
... a thorny affective knot: the relationship of happiness and pleasure to material wealth. The utopian blueprint of socialist societies assumed that, once the relationship of production was changed, citizens would be liberated and happy. But the Chinese debate suggests that young people questioned...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 75–86.
Published: 01 December 2022
... endeavor to change the environment to produce material goods stands condemned as aggression and violence. If socialist economic production is to achieve material prosperity, intellectual advances, and aesthetic enrichment for all citizens, it is imperative to focus on ecological implications...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 251–254.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Sinclair thanks Xiao for her “beautiful gift which Agnes Smedley brought to me” and tells her that with the letter he encloses “a copy of my book” as well as “some of my recent pamphlets” (25). Following this strikingly material evidence of literary exchange, Iwasaki explores the literary networks formed...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... . . . Myth is already Enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology. For Enlightenment, anything that does not conform to the standards of calculability and utility must be viewed with suspicion. The urge to rescue the past as something living, instead of using it as material for progress, has been...
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