Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/vrg.2024.a922359
Oishani Sengupta
Abstract: Can the archetypal imperial adventurer—the hero of empire's interlinked fictions of discovery and conquest—be brown? This question finds expression in a genre of Bengali literature yet to receive significant scholarly attention. Rather than viewing these novels as a case of Bengal "writing back" to the British genre of the imperial romance, I read them as enquiries into the turbulent shifts of race, migration, and fractured self-fashioning in the age of decolonization. Through a closer look at Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's Chander Pahar or The Mountain of the Moon (1937), the essay demonstrates how traces of indentureship and coolie labor as abject and elided forms of brown/ness fracture both the category of the brown expeditioner and its effect on the stereotypes of the dark continent.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/vrg.2024.a922357
N. Minai, Vanita Reddy, Marissa C. de Baca, Aaisha Salman, Xine Yao, Mira Al Hussein
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/vrg.2024.a922358
Neelofer Qadir, Kelvin Ng, Sabine Mohamed, Sritama Chatterjee, Johan Mathew
{"title":"The Infrastructural Embodiments of Laleh Khalili's Sinews of War and Trade","authors":"Neelofer Qadir, Kelvin Ng, Sabine Mohamed, Sritama Chatterjee, Johan Mathew","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2024.a922358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2024.a922358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"50 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140280169","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/vrg.2024.a922355
N. Minai, Neelofer Qadir, Tina Chen
{"title":"The Possibilities and Limits of Brown/ness(es)","authors":"N. Minai, Neelofer Qadir, Tina Chen","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2024.a922355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2024.a922355","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"192 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140270751","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/vrg.2024.a922361
Arjun Shankar
Abstract: This essay tackles the ontological distinctiveness of brown/ness by locating it within the (neo)colonially emplaced "economies of salvation." Although it is an underacknowledged aspect of the coloniality of power, colonial racial capitalism actually required an economy of salvation that demarcated racialized and gendered difference and hierarchy along the savior–saved binary. The essay elaborates on three ways that the economies of salvation structure the multivalent racial politics of brown/ness for dominant-caste Indians, both on the subcontinent and in its diaspora: (1) as impoverishment, (2) as assimilability, and (3) as (caste) capture. The "as" evinces the degree to which these three dimensions constitute the ontopoetic state that is brown/ness, producing some of its multivalent and contradictory affective intimacies.
{"title":"On the Economies of Brown Salvation: Impoverishment, Assimilationist Imaginaries, and Dominant-Caste Capture","authors":"Arjun Shankar","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2024.a922361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2024.a922361","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This essay tackles the ontological distinctiveness of brown/ness by locating it within the (neo)colonially emplaced \"economies of salvation.\" Although it is an underacknowledged aspect of the coloniality of power, colonial racial capitalism actually required an economy of salvation that demarcated racialized and gendered difference and hierarchy along the savior–saved binary. The essay elaborates on three ways that the economies of salvation structure the multivalent racial politics of brown/ness for dominant-caste Indians, both on the subcontinent and in its diaspora: (1) as impoverishment, (2) as assimilability, and (3) as (caste) capture. The \"as\" evinces the degree to which these three dimensions constitute the ontopoetic state that is brown/ness, producing some of its multivalent and contradictory affective intimacies.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"15 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140268121","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}
{"title":"Indenture, Iteration: Race and the Aesthetics of Contract Labor","authors":"Najnin Islam, Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard, Neelofer Qadir","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2024.a922356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2024.a922356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"29 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140272099","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/vrg.2024.a922360
Jordan Lynton Cox
Abstract: Weaving together literature from postcolonial, cultural, and anthropological studies, this essay traces the historical reethnicization of "Hakka" across nation-states from the nineteenth century to the present as a reflection of the savvy techniques that Afro-Asian communities use to navigate conflicting racial ideologies throughout the African and Asian diasporas and beyond. It argues that "Hakka" serves not only as an ethnic identifier for groups in southern China and Taiwan (primarily) but also as a flexible signifier that is used by Chinese Jamaicans to navigate and resist state-based racial technologies throughout multiple countries and time periods.
{"title":"What Is a Hakka?: Tracing the Development of Hakka Ethnic Identity in Jamaica","authors":"Jordan Lynton Cox","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2024.a922360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2024.a922360","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Weaving together literature from postcolonial, cultural, and anthropological studies, this essay traces the historical reethnicization of \"Hakka\" across nation-states from the nineteenth century to the present as a reflection of the savvy techniques that Afro-Asian communities use to navigate conflicting racial ideologies throughout the African and Asian diasporas and beyond. It argues that \"Hakka\" serves not only as an ethnic identifier for groups in southern China and Taiwan (primarily) but also as a flexible signifier that is used by Chinese Jamaicans to navigate and resist state-based racial technologies throughout multiple countries and time periods.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"232 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140280276","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 : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/vrg.2024.a922362
Soumya Rachel Shailendra
Abstract: The archive of exchanges between Dalit and Black intellectuals exhibits the significance of imagining and translating minoritarian relations in the late twentieth century. The formation of the Dalit Panthers—an anticaste organization that declared its affiliation to the Black Panther Party in 1973—presents one such translational moment, revealing the affective power of brown/ness in consolidating minoritarian worlds that are concomitantly conceived in their opposition to coloniality, caste, and white supremacy. I trace the evolution of the Panthers' relationship through the journey of its iconography, from its initial sketching in Lowndes to its circulation in Marathi little magazines in the 1970s and its reappearance in Rahee Punyashloka's print series The Panthers Is an Elusive Beast (2021).
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/vrg.2024.a922363
Sumita Chakraborty
Abstract: This article theorizes the concept of "compulsory analogy" as a reiterated, compelled speech act that fundamentally structures Brown ontology within white supremacy. The author contends that white interpellation forces Brown subjects to define themselves via similitude to position Brown/ness both as whiteness's subordinate and as whiteness's ally in perpetuating anti-Blackness. Subsequently, the essay pivots to considering the function of literary analogies in the work of the contemporary South Asian poet Kazim Ali, suggesting that it offers a model for an analogical logic that vehemently rejects compulsory analogy in favor of a Brown relationality that confounds white inscription and is predicated on antiracist alliances between Brown and Black subjects.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1353/vrg.2023.a903024
Joshua Schlachet
Abstract:Through an object-oriented history of Japanese foodways on the move, this article explores how a miniature kitchen diorama collected by Jan Cock Blomhoff in Nagasaki in the 1820s situated Japan within the Netherlands’ narrative of post-Napoleonic national sovereignty. Blomhoff’s kitchen blended a display of Japanese culinary craftsmanship—its tools, vessels, and utensils procured from Japanese artisans—with classical Dutch dollhouse design that evoked Golden Age domestic prosperity, a microcosm of a properly functioning state. Everyday life objects like Blomhoff’s kitchen became powerful symbols for continuity throughout the Netherlands’ era of national dissolution. Despite limited mobility outside Japan during the early modern period, representation of cooking and domestic life through miniaturized kitchen accouterments produced an insistent presence of Japanese foodways in the European imagination.
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