Pub Date : 2017-05-01DOI: 10.1215/10679847-3852249
Will Bridges
This essay considers the nonfictional writings on black literature and American race relations penned by Nobel laureate Ōe Kenzaburō between the years 1961 (when Ōe attended the Asian-African Writers Conference held in Tokyo) and 1968 (when he delivered a series of speeches in Kinokuniya Hall on American race relations). In these nonfictional musings, Ōe posits an analogous existential dilemma shared by the postwar Japanese and post–civil rights era African-Americans. Ōe's proposed solution to this dilemma—a kind of existential freedom rooted in celebrating ethnic and racial diversity—is highly informed by his reading of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin.
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Pub Date : 2012-12-21DOI: 10.1215/10679847-1472006
C. Robert
Trần Anh Hung is best known for three films: The Scent of the Green Papaya (1993), Cyclo (1995), and Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000), known as his Vietnam Trilogy. In this article I propose the notion of the return of a repressed, painful, and violent wartime past, which takes form narratively through a meditation on uncanny spaces—spaces of wandering, longing, anxiety, and loss. I argue that Hung's Cyclo represents the return of themes that have been repressed in Vietnamese cinema and literature and in everyday life in general in Vietnam, until recently. Nostalgia and loss can now be expressed in film and literature, which was not possible until the 1990s. This stems from a reevaluation of wartime suffering occurring now, a generation after the end of war in Vietnam in 1975. This also results from a gradual easing of state controls on arts and media in Vietnam in the 1990s. Recent Vietnamese films and literature have begun to focus on the massive human costs and painful aftermath of the war. These are articulated through tropes of mourning, silences, and loss. My hypothesis is that the uncanny occupies a privileged place in contemporary Vietnamese visual and written narratives because of this "return" of themes that had been repressed for political reasons since the end of the war. Trần Anh Hung was born in Vietnam in 1962. He and his family left as refugees at the end of the war in 1975. Cyclo , filmed on location in the first large-scale foreign production in Vietnam, marked his return to his birthplace. Hung reembodies his torn Vietnamese identity through montage of spaces of poverty, crime, and loss. The chain-smoking poet, played by Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu Wai, drifts silently through interiors that seemingly bear no relationship to the dangerous, grimy streets outside. I examine the spatial opposition between streets and interiors, and why Hung focuses so strongly on abjection, silences, and failed articulation of desires. The figure of the poor, beautiful woman forced into prostitution to save her family is almost a cliche in Vietnamese fiction—and so is that of her poor young brother, who struggles for survival in a threatening urban underworld. I query whether these familiar narrative tropes of abjection provide new spaces for understanding the shift away from a war-torn society, or whether they replicate a persistent, romantic self-Orientalizing thread in modern Vietnamese fiction.
Trần安雄最著名的三部电影是:《青木瓜的味道》(1993)、《三轮车客》(1995)和《太阳的垂直光线》(2000)，被称为他的越南三部曲。在这篇文章中，我提出了一个被压抑、痛苦和暴力的战争过去的回归的概念，它通过对神秘空间的沉思来叙事——徘徊、渴望、焦虑和失落的空间。我认为洪秀柱的《三轮车夫》代表了越南电影和文学以及越南日常生活中一直被压抑的主题的回归，直到最近。怀旧和失落现在可以在电影和文学中表达，这在20世纪90年代之前是不可能的。这源于1975年越南战争结束后一代人对战争苦难的重新评估。这也是上世纪90年代越南逐渐放松对艺术和媒体控制的结果。最近的越南电影和文学作品开始关注战争造成的巨大人员伤亡和痛苦后果。这些都是通过哀悼、沉默和损失的比喻来表达的。我的假设是，神秘在当代越南的视觉和书面叙事中占据了一个特殊的位置，因为这种“回归”的主题，自战争结束以来，由于政治原因被压制。Trần Anh Hung 1962年出生于越南。1975年战争结束时，他和他的家人作为难民离开了这里。《三轮车哥》是第一部在越南拍摄的大型外国电影，标志着他回到了他的出生地。通过对贫穷、犯罪和失落的空间的蒙太奇，洪重新体现了他破碎的越南身份。由香港演员梁朝伟(Tony Leung Chiu Wai)饰演的这位一根接一根抽烟的诗人，在看似与外面危险、肮脏的街道毫无关系的室内默默地漂流。我研究了街道和室内空间之间的对立，以及为什么洪如此强烈地关注落魄、沉默和欲望的失败表达。在越南小说中，一个贫穷而美丽的女人为了拯救家庭而被迫卖淫的形象几乎是老生常谈了——她可怜的弟弟也是如此，他在一个危险的城市黑社会中挣扎求生。我怀疑这些熟悉的关于堕落的叙事修辞是否为理解从一个饱受战争蹂躏的社会的转变提供了新的空间，或者它们是否复制了现代越南小说中持久的、浪漫的自我东方化的线索。
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Pub Date : 2009-09-21DOI: 10.1215/10679847-2009-006
C. J. Huang
Is the concept of the NGO, or nongovernmental organization, a global catchall? This article tries to respond to the globalization of the concept of NGO by tracing the historical and local development of a Taiwanese grassroots Buddhist organization, the Buddhist Tzu Chi (Ciji) Foundation, in the public sphere of Taiwan since the late 1960s, and particularly the controversies surrounding the group's rapid growth during Taiwan's democratization since the late 1980s. The development of the Buddhist group from an unknown grassroots to a global United Nations NGO, as the article will show, attests to the plural genealogies of NGO-ness. In addition, the article argues that the genealogy of Ciji illustrates the nuanced relationship between society and the Taiwan "state," and that Ciji embodies the shifting cultural "state" of civil society in Taiwan. The concept of the "regime of civil morality" will be introduced for the understanding of the cultural politics of NGO-ness.
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Pub Date : 2009-05-01DOI: 10.1215/10679847-2009-001
Christopher Lupke
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Pub Date : 2009-05-01DOI: 10.1215/10679847-2009-008
S. Lin
This essay examines the current state of Taiwanese culture through the project of restoration of history, focusing on a corpus of literary works that represent Taiwan's 2/28 Incident and its aftermath, the White Terror. Post–martial law Taiwan witnessed the birthing of a new nation with burgeoning writings of a new historiography, particularly in the literary field. Writers have re-created scenes and the effects of atrocity in order to fill in the gaps in history as a new Taiwan is being written into existence. In this body of literature, women as victims have clearly been considered the most powerful trope to convey a sense of injustice. By situating my analysis in the larger context of third-world women and their changing roles vis-a-vis tradition during national crises, I argue that the definition of victimhood is, in fact, never readily transparent, and hence equivocal portrayals of women as victims not only constitute a sign of an evolving understanding of Taiwanese history but become a crucial narrative device that helps to avoid the pitfall of trivialization.
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Pub Date : 2008-05-01DOI: 10.1215/10679847-2008-005
J. Smith
{"title":"Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love","authors":"J. Smith","doi":"10.1215/10679847-2008-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2008-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133695410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-11-01DOI: 10.1215/10679847-2006-029
Hairong Yan, Daniel Vukovich
Introduction to a special issue of "Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique" on the question of "What's Left of Asia?" This essay, co-authored with Yan Hairong, surveys the collected articles within the context of extant work on the meaning and history of the concept of "Asia" within area studies and inter-Asian cultural studies. It also grounds such academic work in the context of past imperial/colonial histories of Asia and within the current globalization of capitalism in the region. "Asia" remains an inherently problematic concept-metaphor for a radically diverse, discontinuous, and conflicted "area" but also remains a term we have to keep using and hopefully re-inventing to meet contemporary intellectual and political needs.
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Pub Date : 2006-12-21DOI: 10.1215/10679847-2006-014
De Boer, C. John
{"title":"Circumventing the Evils of Colonialism: Yanaihara Tadao and Zionist Settler Colonialism in Palestine","authors":"De Boer, C. John","doi":"10.1215/10679847-2006-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127349972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-07-26DOI: 10.1215/10679847-13-1-121
J. trSearsLaurie
{"title":"Declaration of Universal Humanity","authors":"J. trSearsLaurie","doi":"10.1215/10679847-13-1-121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-13-1-121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":131234,"journal":{"name":"Positions-east Asia Cultures Critique","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129553006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-02-01DOI: 10.1215/10679847-13-1-115
S. Mandal
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