scholarly journals Connecting the Plots: The Extension of Return and Korean Ethnic Nationalism in Jane Jeong Trenka’s 'Fugitive Visions'

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan Waddell
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Korean Adoptees ◽  
Media And Identity

Thousands of overseas Korean adoptees return to Korea temporarily each year in search of their true origin, but few choose to stay permanently. A prominent member of this small community is Jane Jeong Trenka, author of two memoirs: The Language of Blood (2003) and Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee’s Return to Korea (2009). This article analyses Trenka’s literary struggle for permanence in Fugitive Visions through theories on Korean ethnic national identity. Using Marshall McLuhan’s idea of media as the ‘extension of man’, it explores the symbiotic relationship between literary media and identity, connecting colonial-era writings on Korean ethnic nationalism to Trenka’s portrayal of transnational return.

scholarly journals COMPARISION COGNITIVE IDENTITY BETWEEN HONGKONG CITIZENS AND CHINESE DIASPORA IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhang Guannan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Cognitive Problem ◽  
Chinese Citizen

In this paper, my topic is related to the cognitive identity case in Hong Kong. To research this topic, the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia will also be discussed and compared to illustrate what factors may caused the case occurred in Hong Kong. The topic of this paper will be discussed in terms of historical development, with this comparison, I will explain how the historical development of cognitive identity in Hong Kong from the colonial era to the present. Meanwhile, unlike the case of Hong Kong which is disappearing their cognitive identity which is national identity in China, there are Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia who still consider themselves as the successors of Chinese culture. With this comparison, I want to find a solution to avoid cases like this that occur in Hong Kong so that the cognitive problem of identity of people who has followed the Hong Kong case will also be changed and also truly be considered their identity as Chinese citizen. To research this topic, I will use the literature review method.

Introduction to The Indonesian Legal System: Major Developments in the Past Decade

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Hesti Setyowati ◽  
M. Harris S. Toengkagie
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legal Foundation ◽  
National Ideology ◽  
Customary Laws ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law And Justice

Abstract Indonesia is an archipelagic country that has endured 350 years of western colonization. Its people comprise diverse ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds, all living in more than 17.000 islands spread throughout the archipelago. The development of the Indonesian legal system are considered as unique since it comprises the legacy of colonization, combined with the customary laws of various tribes. It is heavily infl uenced by Islam-the religion of the majority of its citizens, and the people’s own perception of law and justice following the colonial era. The undisputable fact on the variety of ethnic groups, cultures and religions formulate the desire for national ideology which promotes a unity of such diversity. As the result, each of the laws is formulated with reference to the principle of unity and democracy carried out in accordance with the national ideology. 60 years after its independence, the Law in Indonesia has shown great strides in its development. All of the developments are claimed to fulfi ll its goal of achieving a modern nation with solid legal foundation, without sacrifi cing its national identity.

The Role of Zimbabwean Museums in Creating National Identity during Post-Colonial Era: A case study of Zimbabwe Military Museum

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Jagero ◽  
Walter K. T. Chisedzi ◽  
Nevermore Sithole ◽  
Shadreck Simbarashe Chitima
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial

Modernism as Postnationalist Politics:

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 532-549
Author(s):  
Adnan Morshed
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
The United States ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Secular Humanist ◽  
Dual Commitment

After completing architectural studies in the United States in 1952, Muzharul Islam returned home to Pakistan to find the country embroiled in acrimonious politics of national identity. The young architect began his design career in the midst of bitterly divided notions of national origin and destiny, and his architectural work reflected this political debate. In Modernism as Postnationalist Politics: Muzharul Islam's Faculty of Fine Arts (1953–56), Adnan Morshed argues that Islam's Faculty of Fine Arts at Shahbagh, Dhaka, embodied his need to articulate a national identity based on the secular humanist ethos of Bengal, rather than on an Islamic religious foundation. With this iconoclastic building, Islam sought to achieve two distinctive goals: to introduce the aesthetic tenets of modern architecture to East Pakistan and to reject all references to colonial-era Indo-Saracenic architecture. The Faculty's modernism hinges on Islam's dual commitment to a secular Bengali character and universal humanity.

Joseph Kasa-Vubu, ABAKO, and Performances of Kongo Nationalism in the Independence of Congo

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Covington-Ward
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Belgian Congo

When most people think about the Belgian Congo and its path to independence on June 30, 1960, the figure that most frequently comes to mind is that of Patrice Lumumba and his strategy of uniting people across different ethnic groups. While Lumumba’s contributions have been well documented and recognized, this essay argues that the Kongo ethnic association–turned–political party, ABAKO (Association des BaKongo), and its leader Joseph Kasa-Vubu, were the driving force behind the independence movement in colonial Belgian Congo. ABAKO, however, used a completely different approach that successfully privileged ethnic nationalism, demonstrating that ideas of ethnic identity were often more important than a burgeoning national identity. Through the application of a performative analysis to three key events—the ABAKO countermanifesto of 1956; the Léopoldville rebellion of January, 1959; and the civil disobedience campaign advocating for an autonomous Kongo state in mid-1959—the author shows that members of ABAKO and its leadership effectively used performances of ethnic and territorial nationalism to greatly impact and lead the movement for Congolese independence.

The Sokol and Czech Nationalism, 1918–1948

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Dimond
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Foreign Minister ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
Red Army ◽  
Split Personality ◽  
Post War ◽  
Ethnic Policy

Jan Masaryk, the foreign minister of Czechoslovakia and son of the country's first president, pointed out just before his death in March 1948 that the gymnastics festival organised by the Sokol gymnastic movement was an opportunity for Czechoslovakia to show off its post-war socialist reforms that had ‘aroused considerable global interest’. The Sokol was not only a gymnastics organization; it was also an outlet for the expression of Czech national identity. Judging by Masaryk's comments, the Sokol appeared to be supportive of the Czech Weltanschauung of socialism that had emerged after the Red Army had liberated Czechoslovakia from Nazi rule in May 1945. This chapter argues that the Sokol had a split personality, one part based on socialist-thinking Jindřich Fügner's concept, the other on that of the nationalist-minded MiroslavTyrš. In addition to its pursuit of ethnic nationalism, this chapter examines the Sokol's ethnic policy, relationship with Slovakia, and support of the Communists.

scholarly journals Reconstructing Multiculturalism in Malaysia through Visual Culture

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-1) ◽  
pp. 99-105
Author(s):  
Noraini Md. Yusof ◽  
Z. J. Esmaeil
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The State ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
The Road ◽  
Ethnicity And Race

Abstract The terms ‘ethnicity’ and ‘race’ bear social and political importance in a multicultural society. Introduced in Malaysia by the British back in the colonial era, these terms have been influencing the politics of the state and everyday life of the grassroots. Since the early days of independence, Malaysia has been witnessing ethnic conflict and right from the very beginning of making a new Malaysia, the Malaysian governments have introduced concepts and plans to eradicate the ethnic conflict but it has not been very successful although the country boasts of its racial stability. Multiculturalism in Malaysia still remains an ambivalent nationalist project. In fact, the road to a collective national identity through multiculturalism is paradoxical. This paper examines how visual culture can help reconstruct a multicultural society and argues that Malaysia’s plan in creating a national identity will remain a myth as long as one ethnicity and its values are more important than other ethnicities. It also investigates whether a collective identity is really needed for a multicultural country such as Malaysia.

scholarly journals Kim and Kip in the Mirror of Mimicry: A Postcolonial Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Dr. MD Rakibul Islam ◽  
DR. Nazia Hasan
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Interesting Aspect ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Comfort Zone ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Postcolonial Study

The research paper aims to give an accurate account of how Kirpal Singh/Kip in The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje copies the socio-cultural and linguistic norms of the Europeans (colonizers) unlike Kipling’s Kim who emulates the Eastern people (colonized) and their culture. They are examples of going through a long drawn process of growing up, looking into the mirror of mimicry. Kip joins the English army as a grown up, learns the need to show affinity to the new culture by way of imitation, adopting their ways to weave a comfort zone. Being different could be an assaulting fact for both sides, Kip is quick to realize that. But his childish view of looking down upon his native culture is the irony of mimicry. It wipes out the original being to rewrite a new identity. Kip leaves the small community sprouted accidentally in the Italian monastery, showing traces of a stricken conscience. Kim, by the virtue of living in close company of Indians, adopts their habits and manners without any qualm, in a most unconscious manner. He never worries to look or sound his original self which he has not experienced for long. Thus, a kind of reverse mimicry is his fate and character when we look at him as an outsider living as an Indian native. The ambivalence of their characters, presented by both, is an interesting aspect of mimicry. In the paper, we have used the views of postcolonial and cultural literary theorists on mimicry, deliberating upon how with the effect of both the processes, Kip and Kim, consciously or unconsciously, get their national identity peeled off, affixing new hybrid identity.  

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