Literary Indianizing: Discourses of Native Cultural Subjectivity

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-119
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Subjectivity

“Dear Friends”: From People’s Cultural Exchange to People’s Cultural Production

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 33-59
Author(s):  
T Tu Huynh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Shared Beliefs ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Cultural Subjectivity

Abstract The article explores how the politics of South-South cooperation, namely between Africa and China, play out at the level of cultural subjectivity, implicating modes of affect and identities that are not captured by the more commonly employed binary framework of “friend” or “enemy.” It asks whether it is possible for the Africans and Chinese to imagine each other without the West as its geocultural dominance diminishes; and if so, how is this being made possible? As modes of transmitting and learning, cultural initiatives under the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and “Belt and Road Initiative” provide a window into both people’s understandings of one another. While necessary for building people-to-people relations, the article, relying on an analysis of data collected from Chinese websites, argues that the state-sponsored cultural exchanges largely reify existing racialized ideas of “the African” and Orientalist views of “the Chinese.” However, building on Simbao’s (2019) point about artists’ works that “push back” against dominant discourse, the article further argues and demonstrates through the journey and works of three artists (Chinese, Kenyan, and Ghanaian) that radical imaginaries reflecting the inner states of acting subjects of China-Africa engagements are available in local cultural productions, uncompromising in communicating shared beliefs and posing challenges to power relations on multiple scales.

Enacting the “Incomprehensible China”: Modern European Jurisprudence and the Japanese Reconstruction of Qing Political Law

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (04) ◽  
pp. 955-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng‐Yi Huang
Keyword(s):  
Administrative Law ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Qing Empire ◽  
Japanese Colonialism ◽  
Chinese Law ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
Japanese Colonial ◽  
Japanese Enterprise ◽  
Cultural Subjectivity ◽  
Colonial Government

The great ambition of Japanese colonialism, from the time of its debut at the end of the nineteenth century, was the reformulation of Chinese law and politics. One of the most extraordinary examples of this ambition is The Administrative Law of the Qing Empire [Shinkoku Gyōseihō], a monumental enterprise undertaken by the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan intended not only to facilitate Japanese colonial administration of Taiwan but also to reorder the entire politico‐juridical order of China along the lines of modern rational law. This article examines the legal analysis embraced in The Administrative Law of the Qing Empire and recounts its attempt to reconstruct the Qing's “political law” (seihō) by a strange, ambiguous, and hybrid resort to “authenticity.” The strangeness of this Japanese colonial production comes from Japan's dual position as both colonizer of Taiwan and simultaneously itself colonized by “modern European jurisprudence”(kinsei hōri). In uncovering the effects of modern European jurisprudence on the Japanese enterprise, we will discover Japan's pursuit of its own cultural subjectivity embedded in The Administrative Law of the Qing Empire, epitomizing the campaign of national identities observable in the process of East Asian legal modernization.

scholarly journals Language and Colour of Skin: A Frantz Fanonian Cultural Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-49
Author(s):  
Sujoy Barman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Study ◽  
Black People ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
White People ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Cultural Subjectivity ◽  
Language Literature

This study is an extraction from the cultural theory of Frantz Fanon, who is regarded as the father of the theory of violence. In the Frantz Fanonian cultural study, discrimination is noticed on the basis of the colour of skin and the exercise of languages and literature, and these are the proposed areas and explained in this article. In the cultural study, for the indigenous background, the black people lead an absurd life in the white cultural society and as well as in the black cultural community in the presence of their white masters. The present study attempts to find out Fanon’s ideologies on the roles of languages, literature, and colour to explain the relation between black and white people and the cultural subjectivity and objectivity. It attempts to fill the gap of the neglected areas in the Frantz Fanonian study in the Manichean society. These neglected areas are the roles of language, literature, and skin colour for the cultural discrimination in the postcolonial cultural study. It also finds out the reasons behind abolishing the black culture at the presence of the white culture and recognising the issues for the black cultural revival after its abolishment in newly liberated countries. Submitted: 26 January 2021; Revised: 28 February 2021; Accepted: 9 April 2021

That’s All It Does

2019 ◽  
pp. 303-322
Author(s):  
Michael Tenzer
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asian ◽  
West African ◽  
African Music ◽  
The West ◽  
Oral Transmission ◽  
Balinese Gamelan ◽  
Interactive Behaviors ◽  
Cultural Subjectivity ◽  
Insight Into

Though integral to his formation as a composer, Steve Reich’s studies of Balinese gamelan have been overlooked. In part this is because of a certain redundancy: features of Balinese overlap significantly with the West African music whose impact on Reich’s formative works of the 1970s has been amply demonstrated. These include predominance of percussion, repetitive cyclic structures, interlocking rhythms, systems of oral transmission, and the nonprofessional ethos of the performing ensemble’s interactive behaviors. But what of the features of the Balinese music Reich studied and did not assimilate? Among these are malleable tempo, extended and minimally repetitive cycles, and tonally hierarchic melodies rooted in Southeast Asian traditions of sung poetry. Their eschewal opens pathways for insight into Reich’s music, as well as his cultural subjectivity, in the process illuminating unsuspected aesthetic affinity between his detractors among “uptown” composition apologists of the time and traditional Balinese musicians.

Hegemonic Mimicry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung Hyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Identity ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Korean Cinema ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Korean Wave ◽  
Cultural Subjectivity

In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture—the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu—from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of mimicry to think through hallyu's adaptation of American sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of Korean popular culture has upended the familiar dynamic of major-to-minor cultural influence, enabling hallyu to become a dominant global cultural phenomenon. At the same time, its worldwide popularity has rendered its Koreanness opaque. Kim argues that Korean cultural subjectivity over the past two decades is one steeped in ethnic rather than national identity. Explaining how South Korea leaped over the linguistic and cultural walls surrounding a supposedly “minor” culture to achieve global ascendance, Kim positions K-pop, Korean cinema and television serials, and even electronics as transformative acts of reappropriation that have created a hegemonic global ethnic identity.

scholarly journals Effect of Egyptian Culture on the Design of Jewelry (Cultural Design Based on Ancient Egyptian Patterns)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eman Ramadan ◽  
◽  
YuWu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Behavior Patterns ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Cultural Design ◽  
Egyptian Culture ◽  
Satellite Channels ◽  
Cultural Subjectivity ◽  
And Behavior

We are now living in an era in which modern media and advanced technology, including satellites, satellite channels, and the information network, are intensifying, all of which are working to dissolve cultural subjectivity and remove popular legacies to replace them with Western cultural values ??and behavior patterns. Hence, the Egyptian researcher sees the necessity of reviving contemporary inspired, where every civilization in history has its own culture and pattern which always reflects civilization and expresses their lives and beliefs. Herein, we will mention about the ancient Egyptian civilization, in northeastern Africa that dates from the 4th millennium BCE. It has many achievements, which preserved in its art and monuments. It holds a fascination that continues to grow as archaeological finds expose its secrets. This article focuses on ancient Egyptian culture through the patterns of their beliefs, and how did these patterns affect the designs of the jewelry, and how we can benefit from these patterns in the creation of innovative designs. Here, we focused on the Egyptian pattern because of its great importance in ancient Egypt. Besides, its distinctive shapes enable us to create new modern designs for this era.

scholarly journals The Greek Educational Policy Model towards the Reinforcement of Democracy: From the Marginalized Citizen to the Active Political Individual

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Kalerante E. ◽  
Eleftherakis Th.
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Operational Model ◽  
Policy Model ◽  
New Organizational Forms ◽  
Institutional Organization ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Cultural Subjectivity ◽  
Exemplary Model

<p><em>The present study is an attempt to define the legalizing process of a differentiated operational model for schools, emphasizing and reinforcing democratic values. In this respect, new organizational forms of students and teachers are being proposed, aimed at formulating a bio-political environment characterized by new communication networks—of both social and personal appeal. These will be conducive to transforming authoritative structures and domination relations into democratic forms of organization, taking into consideration the individuals’ social and cultural subjectivity within their social environment. More specifically, explicit and implicit forms of domination and authority are transcended with a focus on the forming correspondence of structures and relations, rendering democracy a new interpretation regarding its social and political content.</em></p><em>This proposal is expected to serve as an exemplary model for democratic education beyond the needs emanating from the Greek reality. The institutional organization and operation of the education bureaucratic mechanism is emphasized in order that schools operate as areas of consideration and political reflection on democracy.</em>

scholarly journals Textual Representations of Chicana Identity in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo or Puro Cuento

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Alonso Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Chicana Literature ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Textual Representations ◽  
Identidad Cultural ◽  
Female Consciousness ◽  
Textual Representation ◽  
Cultural Subjectivity ◽  
Literatura Chicana

Resumen:El principal objetivo de este estudio es el de analizar la representación textual de los distintos rasgos distintivos presentes en la producción literaria Chicana en Caramelo or Puro Cuento de Sandra Cisneros, publicada en 2002. Para este propósito se tendrán en consideración cuestiones relativas a la subjetividad cultural, la naturaleza femenina, la historia, el racismo y el machismo, así como aspectos lingüísticos con el fin de explorar algunos elementos significantes en esta obra de Cisneros que podría ser considerada como un ejemplo de conciencia femenina en la literatura Chicana.Palabras clave: literatura chicana, identidad cultural, nueva mestiza, folklore mexicano.Título en español: Representaciones textuales de identidad chicana en Caramelo o Puro Cuento de Sandra Cisneros.Abstract:The main purpose of this study is to analyse the textual representation of the various distinctive features present within Chicana literary production in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo or Puro Cuento, published in 2002. In order to accomplish this, issues such as cultural subjectivity, female nature, history, racism and machismo, as well as linguistic aspects will be taken into consideration in order to explore some signicant elements within Cisneros’s work, which could be considered as being an example of a new female consciousness in Chicana literature.Keywords: Chicana literature, cultural identity, new mestiza, Mexican folklore.

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