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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 526–537.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., they inadvertently created new narratives that exacerbated existing tensions and divisiveness instead. 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...
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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 (2021) 18 (2): 538–553.
Published: 01 October 2021
... explicates the distinctions between Han writers' and Mongol intellectuals' nationalist writings, in order to theorize the dual oppression of the Mongol minority culture under Japanese colonialism and Chinese despotism. Despite the mission of this so-called Mongolian nation-state to write in a Mongolian style...
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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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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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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... is institutionalized as power relations in the cultural and political life, take the form of political marginalization of minority groups, and cause emotional distress and physical harm within and beyond the fictional universe. ajoubin@gwu.edu Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 anti-Asian racism...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 104–126.
Published: 01 March 2020
... by both commentators and practitioners. However, BL's increasing interweaving with homosexuality and sexual minorities in China requires scholars to reread and redefine BL practice in its Chinese context. This article discusses some of the recent transformations of the BL genre in China, examines...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... ecology along national lines inspires my rethinking of Mahua literary history. First, I understand ecology as what Amitav Ghosh calls a “form of emplacement in which the landscape, and its hidden forces” create “commonalities between the people who dwell in it, no matter what their origin.” 10 Minor...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
... people in his work. 38 In contrast, when 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...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 224–235.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of both identities helped me to find my own ground for speaking as a racialized subject. But, as Roshanravan notes, to be an Asian American woman is to live with “how the model-minority discourse cultivates popular perceptions of Asian American women as the least political among Women of Color...
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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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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 474–490.
Published: 01 September 2022
...); it is also part of the same phenomenon 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...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of the People's Republic of China, the Han have been seen as the elevated center 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...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... elsewhere, Reform-era Chinese minority writers exhibit a strong tendency to document, revive, and preserve minority spiritual traditions, especially in the backdrop of China's rapid urbanization and modernization. Minority writers from various ethnic backgrounds constitute a special ally in contemporary...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... inhabitants”), while the People's Republic of China (PRC) term for indigenous is tuzhu 土著, meaning native or local, in contrast to outsider or foreigner (especially ‘imperialists’). The PRC term shaoshu minzu 少數民族 is used to identify indigenous groups, classified as fifty-five “minority nationalities...
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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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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 240–243.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to both emulate their influences and establish their own creative voices in a new language and cultural context. To begin, a few of the basic features of the book itself are worth noting. Clearly this was a dissertation reworked as a monograph, and as such it demonstrates minor awkwardnesses...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
... the mainstream, such as those of minorities or Indigenous people. The Philippine movement is spearheaded by an exciting brood of midcareer writers who have appropriated literary techniques and modes of Western (read: Anglo-American) origin. 1 Their subject matter, nevertheless, stems from native earth...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 181–192.
Published: 01 March 2022
... as a model minority is, of course, fundamentally different from the African American history of slavery and police brutality, but both were race-based systems of discrimination in which US economic growth was facilitated by powerful practices of racial oppression. The legacies of these systemic practices...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 411–427.
Published: 01 September 2022
... 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, yin yi yu—Mahua wenxue yu Magong xiaoshuo ” 衣以風,飲以雨——馬華文學與馬共小說 [Clothed in Wind, Quenched...
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