Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1353/vrg.2023.a903029
Christina M. Spiker
Abstract:This paper analyzes the role and representation of food in the Japanese manga and anime series Golden Kamuy (Gōruden Kamui, 2014-present) by Satoru Noda. While ostensibly an action-packed narrative about the hunt for indigenous Ainu gold, Golden Kamuy has earned a reputation among fans as a gurume, or gourmet, manga and anime. Cooking scenes of both Ainu and Wajin food feature prominently throughout the series. This paper analyzes the rhetorical role of food in the fictional narrative and its connection to official and unofficial ideologies about ethnic harmony between Ainu and Wajin communities in Japan.
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A. Leong, D. Tsen, Paul Nadal, Roanne L. Kantor, Calvin Cheung-Miaw, Jason G. Coe
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Abstract:This essay argues that Laura Kina’s art series Holding On (2019) makes visible an “oceanic Okinawa”—that is, a discourse in the Okinawan diaspora that draws from Indigenous critiques in the Pacific to challenge the marginalization of Okinawa within the United States–Japan relationship. The methodological approach I use is one that examines Holding On in relation to the larger oceanic context that this series embraces. Yet to analyze Kina’s work this way requires an engagement with Asian American studies’ discussions of Asian settler colonialism given its influence in framing Indigenous and Asian relations in recent years. Holding On affiliates itself with the Pacific to express the collective agency of Okinawans and Indigenous peoples everywhere and disrupt the colonial processes that marginalize Okinawans from their lands.
{"title":"“Finding New Routes”: Visualizing an Oceanic Okinawa in Laura Kina’s Holding On (2019)","authors":"Ryan Buyco","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues that Laura Kina’s art series Holding On (2019) makes visible an “oceanic Okinawa”—that is, a discourse in the Okinawan diaspora that draws from Indigenous critiques in the Pacific to challenge the marginalization of Okinawa within the United States–Japan relationship. The methodological approach I use is one that examines Holding On in relation to the larger oceanic context that this series embraces. Yet to analyze Kina’s work this way requires an engagement with Asian American studies’ discussions of Asian settler colonialism given its influence in framing Indigenous and Asian relations in recent years. Holding On affiliates itself with the Pacific to express the collective agency of Okinawans and Indigenous peoples everywhere and disrupt the colonial processes that marginalize Okinawans from their lands.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117083065","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}
Abstract:Through Tsai Ming-liang's postretirement Walker series (2012–18), I consider Tsai’s ever-further alienation of cinematic conventions and expectations and a continued pursuit of an “aesthetics of passivity” within the illusory form of the moving image. Guided by Levinasian themes of passivity, fatigue, and insomnia, I read the ethicopolitical possibility of on-screen passivity and passive spectatorship through scenes in the series and the 2016 No No Sleep exhibition at the MoNTUE in Taipei. In a pandemic time when self-isolating is a passive action and form of responsibility for the other, waiting together becomes a temporal practice of the will that has collective, political potential.
摘要:通过蔡明亮的“退休后行者”系列(2012-18)，我思考了蔡明亮对电影传统和期望的进一步异化，以及在运动影像的虚幻形式中对“被动美学”的持续追求。在列文式的被动、疲劳和失眠主题的引导下，我通过系列中的场景和2016年台北MoNTUE的“No No Sleep”展览，解读了屏幕上的被动和被动观众的伦理政治可能性。在大流行时期，自我隔离是一种被动行动，也是对他人负责的一种形式，共同等待成为一种具有集体政治潜力的意愿的暂时做法。
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Tina Chen, Nadine Attewell, Anushay Malik, D. Ludden, Michael R. Jin, Mark Chiang, H. J. Tam, A. Leong, D. Tsen, Paul Nadal, Roanne L. Kantor, Calvin Cheung-Miaw, Jason G. Coe, Anne Ma Kuo-An, Lily W. Luo, Elizabeth Wijaya, Shannon Welch, Ryan Buyco
Abstract:This study reconsiders the way in which “folklore,” or “local culture,” was documented and narrated, and thus “discovered” by the increasingly transnational intellectual society of 1940s Taiwan. By invoking the term discover, I propose to trace the historical roots of the construction of legitimacy for such subjects as “folklore,” “local culture and custom,” and the emerging discipline folklore studies/native ethnology in a modernizing society facing colonial rule and the globalizing processes of nation building in mid-twentieth-century East Asia. Ultimately, this study proposes that the act of documenting and discovering “folk life” was not necessarily the product but part of the globalizing process of inventing or reinventing traditions among communities establishing historical narratives in a postcolonial world.
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Abstract:This study reconsiders the way in which “folklore,” or “local culture,” was documented and narrated, and thus “discovered” by the increasingly transnational intellectual society of 1940s Taiwan. By invoking the term discover, I propose to trace the historical roots of the construction of legitimacy for such subjects as “folklore,” “local culture and custom,” and the emerging discipline folklore studies/native ethnology in a modernizing society facing colonial rule and the globalizing processes of nation building in mid-twentieth-century East Asia. Ultimately, this study proposes that the act of documenting and discovering “folk life” was not necessarily the product but part of the globalizing process of inventing or reinventing traditions among communities establishing historical narratives in a postcolonial world.
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{"title":"Of Scrolls and Tears: Trinh Mai’s Archival Art and Organic Ephemera","authors":"H. Tam","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":",","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132169191","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}
Abstract:In this article, I draw out the intimacies between techno-Orientalism, All-under-Heaven (Tian-Xia 天下), and Afrofuturism. Using Lisa Lowe’s framework of “intimacies,” I put together these three different areas of study by linking international relations theory with the study of speculative fiction. I expand on criticisms of the Euro-Modern linear liberal narrative by connecting this to Black scholars who push back against the invisibility of Black people in science fiction. I also complicate the image of an advanced “East” as merely a “Western” imagination by connecting that to Asian political imaginations of their own future, specifically those of Chinese political leaders and scholarly elite. Last, I highlight the radical promise of speculative artwork in creating new political imaginations through a close reading of Afrofuturist philosophy and media productions.
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Tina Chen, Nadine Attewell, Anushay Malik, D. Ludden, Michael R. Jin, Mark Chiang
{"title":"The Problems and Possibilities of Global Asias Pedagogy","authors":"Tina Chen, Nadine Attewell, Anushay Malik, D. Ludden, Michael R. Jin, Mark Chiang","doi":"10.1353/vrg.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127539165","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}
Abstract:While some diasporic subjects may believe that they hold an “eternal” connection with their homeland, Arai Chisato and Tsuchida Machie question this presumption through their stories of postwar Japanese immigrant women in Brazil who return to Japan in the 1970s and find that it no longer feels like “home.” In this article, I bring Arai’s short story “Homecoming” (1974) and Tsuchida’s autobiographical memoir “I Cannot Sing the National Anthem” (2007) into conversation to critique the discursive processes that construct dominant national and diasporic identities through the exclusion of raced, classed, gendered, and sexualized “others.” I particularly consider how the notions of “home” and “family” used as models for community formation facilitate this exclusion, and I reconsider ways of belonging beyond national and diasporic borders.
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