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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 170–187.
Published: 01 March 2021
... engages with Jia's film Shijie 世界 (The World; 2004) and examines the portrayal of the migrant workers and their performances in the World Park in Beijing, China. Focusing on political economy and social class, he suggests that The World renders visible the dialectic of mobility and immobility...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 210–234.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and deterritorialized exploitation. In light of this worldview, Miyoshi promotes a new sense of intellectual and political totality, a “true totality that includes everyone in the world.” 4 Ironically, Miyoshi says, it is precisely the global neoliberal economy that lays the only realistic foundation...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
... . Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew , ed. The Monster Theory Reader . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2020 . Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J . Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2019 . Yu, Kenneth...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Yunte Huang; Hangping Xu Abstract This article, introduction to the special issue, lays out the theoretical groundwork for reading Chinese poetry. Situating critical discussions of Chinese poetry within the larger discourse of world literature, the introduction examines key concepts and concerns...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 225–247.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Hangping Xu Abstract This article advances a critical account of Chinese internet poetry as performative speech acts by focusing on the rise of Yu Xiuhua as a “crip” figure. Then, discussing Yu's poetry as world literature via translation, it posits a performative framework of translation...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 139–162.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Jacob Edmond Abstract The term world literature is often used to name the small subset of literary texts that are translated into many languages and circulate globally. One might see the work of the widely translated, globe-trotting poet Bei Dao 北島 (pen name of Zhao Zhenkai 趙振開) as epitomizing...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 26–53.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Shengqing Wu Abstract Focusing on two sets of classical-style poems describing the experience of climbing up the Eiffel Tower and gazing upon the moon in exploratory overseas voyages, this contribution explores the visual imagination of the world ( shijie ) found in late Qing poetry. Instead...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 199–202.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and the new media. Moving beyond the allegorical use of women characters to signal weaknesses of China in the world, they took up substantive women's issues, such as women's education, their political role, their economic contribution and independence, and marriage. In chapter 4, titled “‘Reform...
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Published: 01 October 2019
figure 10 . Yang Yongliang: From The New World (Laizi xindalu), 2014. Look closer and rubble reveals itself amid the timeless peaks and rivers.
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 10–25.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Haun Saussy Abstract Readers of Chinese poetry in English translation have long been accustomed to seeing Wang Wei's quatrain “Lu zhai” as a microcosm of the Chinese poetic tradition. Thematically, it is also a world in miniature, including an “empty mountain,” “human voices,” and “returning...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Carlos Rojas Abstract Opening with a discussion of Singaporean artist Charles Lim Yi Yong's multiyear art project SEASTATE (2005–), this introduction uses Singapore's recent land reclamation efforts to reflect on more general processes of world building in Sinophone Southeast Asia. More...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Robin Visser Abstract In “China as Method,” Mizoguchi Yūzō argues that “a world that takes China as method would be a world in which China is a constitutive element.” Similarly, a world that takes ecology as method is a world in which humans are a constitutive element, one of “the ten thousand...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 430–456.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Xiaolu Ma Abstract Since Edward Said published his seminal study on Orientalism, the notion of the Orient has been heavily discussed and hotly debated in both the Eastern and Western worlds. While early studies of Orientalism mainly underline Western fantasies of an exotic East as the West's “other...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Jie Guo Abstract Reading the Taiwanese author Wu Jiwen's 1996 novel Fin-de-siècle Boylove Reader (Shijimo shaonian’ai duben), this essay considers the age-old figure of the male dan and the critical role it played in the emerging gay scene in the Sinophone world at the turn of the twenty-first...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Maghiel Van Crevel Abstract China's battler poetry ( dagong shige 打工詩歌), also known in English as migrant worker poetry, projects images of China as the workshop of the world in the age of global capitalism. The recent product of a world-renowned tradition in which poetry has been a social practice...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 March 2020
... provide extra insights into the perceptions, expectations, and constrictions of both producing and consuming literature in a global era. Recent debates on world literature have centered mainly on issues of reception and circulation, preferring to define its scope in terms of the reader and the reading...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in critiques of modernity. Similarly, Lu Xun conjured up images of the ancient world where rural folks lived in reciprocity with nature, worshiped supernatural beings, and observed time-honored rituals. Lu Xun linked the myth of progress and technology to a destructive chorus of “malevolent voices...
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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 (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... Here, the article rethinks Ba Ren's legacy within a Mahua corpus, and Zeng Huading's fiction within a cross-straits history of labor. This ecological reading of their works also highlights their critique of Mahua's peripheralization within a world economy and global literature. Mahua literature Ba...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 301–318.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and immigrant stories, I show how the stories signify a geopolitical reckoning with the Cold War patterning of the world. This perspective offers more ways for us to evaluate how the regional literary field intersected with the Cold War beyond the singular defense of its “literariness.” To conclude, we may...
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