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Xi'an incident

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(December 1936) The kidnapping of the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek while visiting disaffected Manchurian troops at Xi'an. Chiang was captured by conspirators headed by Zhang ...

Aisthēsis

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David Vichnar and Louis Armand

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory

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...observed. This despite Pierre Corneille’s Discourse on Tragedy ( 1660 ), where Aristotle comes in for a bashing on account of his conception of catharsis , defined in his Poetics as achieving, “through the representation of pitiable and fearful incidents, the purgation of such pitiable and fearful incidents.” 14 Departing from this, Corneille maintains that pity is felt toward the person regarded as suffering, and fear with respect to ourselves. This inter-subjective emotion only takes place under Aristotle’s condition of having a hero who is neither...

Feminist Theory

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Pelagia Goulimari

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory

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...to female solidarity”—promises to bring out, through the reader, “the ‘unity’ to that ‘scattered, broken’ object that is her life.” 46 An example of the role of the reader is Fricker’s 2007 reading of Beauvoir’s under-written account of an early epistemic clash with Sartre. 47 Beauvoir’s first-person narrative voice does not quite say that Sartre undermined her as a knower, but Fricker interprets this incident as an epistemic attack by Sartre that Beauvoir had the resilience to survive, and which contributed to her self-identification as a writer rather...

Networks

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Patrick Jagoda

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory

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...K. Chun , Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016), x, 15, and x–xi. 67. Cadigan, Synners, 29. 68. This idea is drawn from Network Aesthetics (2016). For the idea of nonsovereignty, I draw primarily from Hannah Arendt , The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998); and Lauren Berlant , Cruel Optimism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011). 69. Cadigan, Synners, 321. 70. For an extensive discussion of the body in William Gibson’s Neuromancer , see Katherine Hayles , How We Became...

Comparative African American and Asian American Literary Studies

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Julia H. Lee

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture

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...Encounters , 139–141. 35. Mullen, Afro Orientalism , 76. 36. Vijay Prashad, “Bandung Is Done: Passages in AfroAsian Epistemology,” in AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics , ed. Heike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon Steen (New York: New York University Press, 2006), xi . 37. Kevin Gaines, “Revisiting Richard Wright in Ghana: Black Radicalism and the Dialectics of Diaspora,” Social Text 19, no. 2 (2001): 80. 38. Jeffrey J. Folks, “‘Last Call to the West’: Richard Wright’s The Color Curtain ,” South Atlantic Review 59, no. 4 (1994): 78. 39. ...

Circumventing Racialism through Mulataje

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José F. Buscaglia-Salgado

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature

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... Arcadio Díaz Quiñones , “De cómo y cuándo bregar,” in El arte de bregar (San Juan, PR: Ediciones Callejón, 2000), 32. 31. Michaeline A. Crichlow , Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009), xi. 32. See Superselected, “Art. Polariods. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Identity through Surrealism,” Super.selected., July 15, 2014. 33. Edouard Glissant , Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays , trans. J. Michael Dash (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992), 23...

The Korean War and Its Literary Legacies

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Daniel Y. Kim

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture

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...East Gate/M. E. Sharpe, 2001. Notes 1. King-Kok Cheung , “Re-Viewing Asian American Literary Studies,” in An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 1. 2. Frank Chin , Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong, “Preface,” in Aiiieeeee! : An Anthology of Asian American Writers, ed. Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong (New York: Mentor–Penguin, 1991), xi–xii. 3. Jeanine Basinger , The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre (New York: Columbia...

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