Submitted by Kelli Shapiro on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 1:19pm
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Reading the Politics of Refugeehood and Marginalization in Post Partition India through Garam Hawa, Mammo, and Ramchand Pakistani
Partition of the Indian subcontinent indisputably generated intensive cultural trauma. This as yet unresolved trauma dominates the collective consciousness and continues to invade the national space. Though in the immediate aftermath of Partition there was an abundance of discourses on Partition (either literary, oral history or official accounts), yet in all these accounts a lot has remained ‘unsaid’. In this paper I seek to analyse why cinema in particular has been reluctant to represent the traumatic experience of Partition.
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Asian Popular Culture/The Asian American Experience (Scally)
The shoujo category of manga is primarily marketed towards women under twenty years of age. Designed around the concept of wish-fulfillment, primarily through love relationships, shoujo reinforces traditional gender roles. One sub-genre of shoujo, known as Boys-Love (BL), or depictions of homosexual and homoerotic relationships between men. By taking the female completely out of the equation, BL works can reinforce traditional gender roles and utilize Orientalist ideology in a way that essentially hides politics and has less potential to detract from fantasy, in that the r
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Asian Popular Culture/The Asian American Experience (Scally)
Japanese Manga Culture: A Source of Lexical Innovation
Slang use among adolescents and college students has long been of interest to those studying language and society (cf. Munro 1989, 1997; Eble 1998). In some cases, slang terms which originated as “youth-speak” have evolved semantically and may even find their way into the general public discourse. In this paper, I show how Japanese popular culture contributes to the propagation of slang terms in the Taiwan society. Through manga, young consumers of this medium are receptive to creative terms and expressions which they then could add to their linguistic repertoire.
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Topic area:
Asian Popular Culture/The Asian American Experience (Scally)
