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Book Review: Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce, and Communication in the Long Eighteenth Century
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title: Book Review: Oriental Networks: Culture, Commerce, and Communication in the Long Eighteenth CenturyBook Review: Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations
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title: Book Review: Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of SensationsEnlightenment Fact, Orientalist Fantasy: Dialogues of Colonial Encounter in Sydney Owenson’s The Missionary (1811)
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title: Enlightenment Fact, Orientalist Fantasy: Dialogues of Colonial Encounter in Sydney Owenson’s The Missionary (1811) abstract: Dialogue dominated the cultural life of eighteenth-century Britain. It embodied what Jürgen Habermas describes as “communicative reason” and, as a literary genre in its own right, it played an important role in the evolution of the English novel. The formal dialogue appears as an embedded genre within many novels of the period. Romantic-period novels often take this armature but complicate it.
In Sydney Owenson’s The Missionary, two voices confront each other through the characters Hilarion and Luxima, a Western missionary and an Indian woman and seer. Formal dialogues do appear as means of communicating their faiths to each other but there is also that sense of dialogue where opposing perspectives become reconciled as the lovers themselves overcome cultural barriers. The novel also performs an implicit examination of dialogue by its concentration on the uses of persuasive language.
<br>Queering Cyborg Chronotope: Humanness unraveled in Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes
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title: Queering Cyborg Chronotope: Humanness unraveled in Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes abstract: Drawing on the concepts of queer temporality, cyborg, and posthumanism with reference to queer inhumanism, this article examines a trans-cyborgized protagonist’s non-linear life splices to unravel humanness within the queered narratives of Chi Ta-wei’s dystopian novella The Membranes, a renowned science fiction produced in 1990s Taiwan that features anthrodecentrism. Unlike the common practice to cripple compulsory heteronormativity, The Membranes imagines a cyberpunk world underpinning cyborg chronology, such that the central figure Momo, a transgender synthesis of a “male human brain” and a fabulated “female cyborg body,” embarks on a self-inquiry journey to situate her fluid, flexible, and unsettled identities, which are obfuscated somewhere between the human brain and a prothesized bodily container. Analyzed in this article is Chi’s existentialist questioning of the hierarchies and default forms of humanhood. The locus of this article, accordingly, is to debunk the deferred, converged chronotope of a transgendered, anthropomorphized cyborg in the sense of Chi’s transqueering posthuman conceptions.
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