Visuality and identity : Sinophone articulations across the Pacific /
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| Author / Creator: | Shi, Shumei, 1961- |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. |
| Description: | xiii, 243 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asia Pacific modern |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6437338 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- About Romanization
- Introduction
- Visuality in Global Capitalism
- Identity in Global Capitalism
- Sinophone Articulations
- 1. Globalization and Minoritization
- The Limits of a Coup d'Etat in Theory
- Flexibility and Nodal Points
- Flexibility and Translatability
- 2. A Feminist Transnationality
- Identity Fragment 1. Feminist Antagonism against Chinese Patriarchy
- Identity Fragment 2. Liberal Antagonism against the Maoist State
- Identity fragment 3. Antagonism of a Minority Subject
- Identity Fragment 4. Antagonism against the Western Gaze
- 3. The Geopolitics of Desire
- Beleaguered Communities
- Sexualizing the "Mainland Sister"
- Feminizing the "Mainland Cousin"
- Gender and Public Sphere
- 4. The Incredible Heaviness of Ambiguity
- A Short History of the "Mainland"
- "Eternal China" in the 1990s
- The "Intimate Enemy" in the Twenty-First Century
- Struggles of the Sinophone
- 5. After National Allegory
- The Allegorical Time and the City-cum-Nation
- The Allegorical and the Mundane
- Refashioning Hongkongness
- 6. Cosmopolitanism among Empires
- The Age of Empires and, Especially, Their Sizes
- Cosmopolitanism, Multiplicity, Danger
- Untranslatable Ethics
- Can Cosmopolitanism Be Ethical?
- Conclusion.: The Time and Place of the Sinophone
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index