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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Prologue, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoNamed the Writer of the Millennium, Shakespeare has come full circle and become a cliché, embraced by marketers and contested by intellectuals. Similar narratives about China’s rise in global stature have been told with equal gusto, championed and denounced in turn by optimists and critics. If Shakespeare now has worldwide currency, how is the se…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Prologue, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoNamed the Writer of the Millennium, Shakespeare has come full circle and become a cliché, embraced by marketers and contested by intellectuals. Similar narratives about China’s rise in global stature have been told with equal gusto, championed and denounced in turn by optimists and critics. If Shakespeare now has worldwide currency, how is the se…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Epilogue, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
The epilogue tackles the ramifications of these new modes of inscribing temporally and visually ambiguous articulations of Shakespeare and China into a global vernacular in theater (Lin Zhaohua’s Richard III) and cinema (Feng Xiaogang’s The Banquet). A paradox of infatuation with Asian visuality and rejection of ethnic authenticity emerged in the…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Chapter 1, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
This chapter, “Owning Chinese Shakespeares,” pursues the critical concept of localization and critiques the fidelity-derived discourse about cultural ownership. How were Chinese Shakespeares used as a kind of staged utopia of modernity?
Underlying this study are three related lines of inquiry united by what might be called locality criticism, t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Prologue, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
Named the Writer of the Millennium, Shakespeare has come full circle and become a cliché, embraced by marketers and contested by intellectuals. Similar narratives about China’s rise in global stature have been told with equal gusto, championed and denounced in turn by optimists and critics. If Shakespeare now has worldwide currency, how is the se…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook Volume 18 in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThanks to Karl Marx’s references in his political treatises, Shakespeare held a significant place in a number of communist and other left-authoritarian countries, including China and the USSR. And although there were themes in Shakespeare that turned out to be inconvenient for communist ideology, other Shakespearean plays were put into service. I…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook Volume 18 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThanks to Karl Marx’s references in his political treatises, Shakespeare held a significant place in a number of communist and other left-authoritarian countries, including China and the USSR. And although there were themes in Shakespeare that turned out to be inconvenient for communist ideology, other Shakespearean plays were put into service. I…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook Volume 18 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThanks to Karl Marx’s references in his political treatises, Shakespeare held a significant place in a number of communist and other left-authoritarian countries, including China and the USSR. And although there were themes in Shakespeare that turned out to be inconvenient for communist ideology, other Shakespearean plays were put into service. I…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook Volume 18 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThanks to Karl Marx’s references in his political treatises, Shakespeare held a significant place in a number of communist and other left-authoritarian countries, including China and the USSR. And although there were themes in Shakespeare that turned out to be inconvenient for communist ideology, other Shakespearean plays were put into service. I…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook Volume 18 on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
Thanks to Karl Marx’s references in his political treatises, Shakespeare held a significant place in a number of communist and other left-authoritarian countries, including China and the USSR. And although there were themes in Shakespeare that turned out to be inconvenient for communist ideology, other Shakespearean plays were put into service. I…[Read more]
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Vin Nardizzi created the event "Watershed" (ALECC 2020) in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months ago
Title: “Watershed” (ALECC 2020)
Description: We are pleased to announce and invite participation in the upcoming July 8-22, 2020, online conference of the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) on the theme Watershed, lit., fig. Please browse the conference program at https://conferences.usask.ca/alecc2020/.…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar's profile was updated on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 Pandemic, GW Today, April 20, 2020 in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoAsian Americans have been spat on, verbally assaulted and physically attacked in more than a thousand race-related incidents in the United States as a result of fear evoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexa Alice Joubin, professor of English and international affairs, women’s studies and East Asian languages and cultures, provided a historical c…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 Pandemic, GW Today, April 20, 2020 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoAsian Americans have been spat on, verbally assaulted and physically attacked in more than a thousand race-related incidents in the United States as a result of fear evoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexa Alice Joubin, professor of English and international affairs, women’s studies and East Asian languages and cultures, provided a historical c…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 Pandemic, GW Today, April 20, 2020 on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months ago
Asian Americans have been spat on, verbally assaulted and physically attacked in more than a thousand race-related incidents in the United States as a result of fear evoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexa Alice Joubin, professor of English and international affairs, women’s studies and East Asian languages and cultures, provided a historical c…[Read more]
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Martine van Elk's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months ago
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III in the group
Shakespeare on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIn this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]
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