The Rey Chow Reader

Rey Chow

Published by Columbia University Press 2010

The Rey Chow Reader

Rey Chow
Edited by: Paul Bowman

https://doi.org/10.7312/bowm14994

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About this book

Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics, her works produce surprising connections among divergent topics at the same time as they compel us to think through the ethical and political ramifications of our academic, epistemic, and cultural practices. This anthology - the first to collect key moments in Chow's engaging thought - provides readers with an ideal introduction to some of her most forceful theoretical explorations. Organized into two sections, each of which begins with a brief statement designed to establish linkages among various discursive fields through Chow's writings, the anthology also contains an extensive Editor's Introduction, which situates Chow's work in the context of contemporary critical debates. For all those pursuing transnational cultural theory and cultural studies, this book is an essential resource.

Praise for Rey Chow

"[Rey Chow is] methodologically situated in the contentious spaces between critical theory and cultural studies, and always attending to the implications of ethnicity."Social Semiotics

"Rich and powerful work that provides both a dazzling synthesis of contemporary cultural theory and at the same time an exemplary critique of Chinese cinema."China Information

"Should be read by all who are concerned with the future of human rights, liberalism, multiculturalism, identity politics, and feminism."Dorothy Ko

"Wide-ranging, theoretically rich, and provocative... completely restructures the problem of ethnicity."Fredric Jameson

Author / Editor information

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. He is also the editor of several books and journal issues, including The Truth of iek, Reading Rancière, and, most recently, special issues of the journals Social Semiotics and Postcolonial Studies, focusing on the work of Rey Chow.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Editor’s Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxv
Part 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity
1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic R Representation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
5. The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, Miscegenation, and the Formation of Community in Frantz Fanon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
6. When Whiteness Feminizes: Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Part 2. Filmic Visuality and Transcu cultural Politics
7. Film and Cultural Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
9. The Dream of a Butterfly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
10. Film as Ethnography; or, Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth, Sixty Years Later Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
12. From Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
13. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, a Different Type of Migration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
- Other: 2 illus.

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Published: July 1, 2010
ISBN: 9780231520782