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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 526–537.
Published: 01 October 2021
... 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 by Japanese monetary incentives and imperial propaganda that proclaimed...
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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 (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 (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. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 anti-Asian racism...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... , and Félix Guattari . Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature , translated by Dana Polan . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1986 . Doyle, Laura . Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 October 2021
... was produced from the borderland and how this work exposes the precariousness and contradictions inherent in the grand narrative of modern nationhood. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 Northeastern Writers Group Manchu Manchuria autobiography ethnic minority This article reconsiders...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 224–235.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to how “Asian American studies 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...
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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
... Orientalism (though this tendency was no doubt an inspiration and a reinforcement); 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...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 366–384.
Published: 01 October 2021
... . 7 Gao, Zuihou yige Xiongnu , 346 . 8 Wang, Chinese Visions , 14 . See also Levenson, “T'ien-hsia and Kuo” ; Harrell, “Introduction.” 9 Joniak-Lüthi, Han , 54, 51 . See also Schein, Minority Rules . 10 See Blum, Portraits of “Primitives” ; Fiskesjö, “Rescuing...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... with the industrializing and secularizing metropolitan life in France by resorting to the Indigenes on the island of Tahiti and the cultural energies that they represent. Even though Shen Congwen's fictional work displays similar thematic concerns, since the author himself was an ethnic minority writer well versed...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... groups, classified as fifty-five “minority nationalities” (or “ethnic minorities,” a more recent translation of minzu that weakens the term's territorial connotations). Concerned with unifying the nation-state, the PRC sets ideals of national unity ( minzu tuanjie 民族團結) against national split-ism...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... for Mobile Societies,” 915 . 42 Ng, “Nanian wo huidao Malaiya,” 50–51 . 43 Ibid., 52. 44 Ibid., 50. 45 Ng, “Zuihou de zhanyi,” 318 . 46 Ng, “Minor Sinophone Literature,” 17 . 47 Ng, “Mahua wenxue de guoji,” 228 . 48 Schimanski and Wolfe, “Entry Points...
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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
... portraits of Chineseness, delineate the specificity of the Filipino Chinese experience grounded in minority history, and foreground ethnicity as a key player and vital component of speculative fiction in today's globalscape. Lauriat draws on the conventions of speculative fiction to localize Chineseness...
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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
... instead uses the protagonist Chen Tianzhu's limited viewpoint to depict the experience of being forced into exile in Indonesia. Although this exile has an autobiographical dimension, 26 it only reflects the experience of a small minority of the MCP. Perhaps constrained by He Jin's own empiricism...
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