The Rey Chow Reader
by Bowman, PaulFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-07-01
Publisher(s): Columbia Univ Pr
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Summary
Rey Chow is one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. She contributes to as many disciplines as she weaves into her elegantly structured, comparative critiques, and her ever-expanding oeuvre confronts the interlocking and overlapping fields of film, sex, gender, ethnography, postcolonialism, visual culture, cultural studies, and Asian society and politics. Chow's essays make connections between topics as dissimilar as ethnic mothers and dinosaurs, avant-garde film and the politics of ethnicity, and high theory and area studies. The first anthology to gather and situate Chow's vitally relevant, transnational thought, this collection not only introduces readers to Chow's most important theoretical explorations but also serves as an ideal entry way into the fields she continues to transform.
Author Biography
Paul Bowman teaches cultural studies at Cardiff University. He is the author of Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies, Deconstructing Popular Culture, and Theorizing Bruce Lee.
Table of Contents
| Editor's Introduction | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxv |
| Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity | |
| The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies | p. 2 |
| Seeing Is Destroying | p. 4 |
| The World Becomes Virtual | p. 9 |
| The Orbit of Self and Other | p. 11 |
| From Atomic Bombs to Area Studies | p. 14 |
| The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation | p. 20 |
| From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions | p. 30 |
| Orientalism and East Asia: The Persistence of a Scholarly Tradition | p. 31 |
| Sanctifying the ôSubalternö: The Productivity of White Guilt | p. 37 |
| Tactics of Intervention | p. 41 |
| The Chinese Lessen | p. 44 |
| Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation | p. 48 |
| The Inevitability of Stereotypes in Cross-Ethnic Representation | p. 49 |
| The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, Miscegenation, and the Formation of Community in Frantz Fanon | p. 56 |
| Race and the Problem of Admittance | p. 59 |
| Community Formation and Sexual Difference: A Double Theoretical Discourse | p. 61 |
| What Does the Woman of Color Want? | p. 64 |
| The Force of Miscegenation | p. 68 |
| Community Building Among Theorists of Postcoloniality | p. 72 |
| When Whiteness Feminizes: Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic | p. 76 |
| Is ôWomanö a Woman, a Man, or What? The Unstable Status of Woman if Contemporary Cultural Criticism | p. 77 |
| Filmic Visuality and Transcultural Politics | p. 82 |
| Film and Cultural Identity | p. 84 |
| Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship | p. 92 |
| The Dream of a Butterfly | p. 124 |
| ôEast Is East and West Is West, and Ne'er the Twain Shall Meetö | p. 127 |
| ôThe Beauty…of Her Death. It's a…Pure Sacrificeö | p. 131 |
| The Force of Butterfly; or, the ôOriental Womanö as Phallus | p. 134 |
| ôUnder the Robes. Beneath Everything, It Was Always Meö | p. 137 |
| ôIt's Not the Story; Its the Musicö | p. 138 |
| Madame Butterfly, C'est Moi | p. 140 |
| Coda: New Questions for Cultural Difference and Identity | p. 145 |
| Film as Ethnography; or, Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World | p. 148 |
| The Primacy of To-Be-Looked-At-ness | p. 152 |
| Translation and the Problem of Origins | p. 154 |
| Translation as ôCultural Resistanceö | p. 160 |
| The ôThird Termö | p. 163 |
| Weakness, Fluidity, and the Fabling of the World | p. 165 |
| The Light of the Arcade | p. 167 |
| A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Regrets for Our Youth, Sixty Years Later | p. 172 |
| Coda | p. 179 |
| From Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility | p. 180 |
| Introduction | p. 181 |
| Highlights of a Western Discipline | p. 182 |
| Image, Time, Identity: Trajectories of Becoming Visible | p. 187 |
| Defining the Sentimental in Relation to Contemporary Chinese Cinema | p. 191 |
| The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, a Different Type of Migration | p. 196 |
| Altruistic Fictions in China's Happy Times | p. 201 |
| How to Add Back a Subtracted Child? The Transmutation and Abjection of Human Labor in Not One Less | p. 206 |
| Notes | p. 215 |
| Index | p. 269 |
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