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Author Bowman, Paul, 1971-
Title Reading Rey Chow : visuality, postcoloniality, ethnicity, sexuality / Paul Bowman
Publisher New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, [2013]

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 MEMORIAL LVL 4 UPPER  HM623 .B696 2013    AVAILABLE



Description xii, 175 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) and index
Subject Chow, Rey
Culture -- Study and teaching -- China
Postcolonialism -- China
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- China
Sex role -- China
Group identity -- China
ISBN 9781433119286 (hardcover alk. paper)
1433119285 (hardcover alk. paper)
9781433119279 (pbk. alk. paper)
1433119277 (pbk. alk. paper)
9781453910894 (e-book)
1453910891
9781453910894
OCLC # 835597801

Table of Contents

 Acknowledgementsvii
 Prefaceix
 Introduction. Reading Rey Chow: Visuality, Postcoloniality, Ethnicity, Sexuality1
ch. One Rey Chow Reading Postcolonialism and Poststructuralism9
 In Fidelity to Deconstruction15
 Rey Chow and the Receptions of Poststructuralism18
 Derrida's Cat18
 Poststructuralism Translated22
 Born in the USA: "French" Poststructuralism23
 Merely Academic (or) Hyper-Political25
 The General T-Shirt of Force and Signification27
 Cultural Studies and "Theory"30
 Feminist (Language) Differences32
 Alterity: Don't Even Go There33
 Disjointed Connections: Postcolonialism and Poststructuralism36
 Visual Pleasure and Poststructuralism Disciplined38
 From Poststructuralism to Post-Foundational Thought41
ch. Two Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Visual Culture43
 Introduction: Film as a Cultural Technology43
 What's the big deal about cinema? Or: What does film "do"?47
Case Study 1 Activity, Passivity, Gender and Sexuality47
 The Commodification of Sex and Ethnicity52
Case Study 2 Ethnicity, Sexuality, Identity and Coercive Mimeticism53
 Visible Space and/as Power60
ch. Three Cultural Politics before China; or "the foundation of contemporary cultural studies"63
 Rey Chow and Cultural Studies70
 Visualizing Postcolonialism versus Area Studies76
ch. Four Rey Chow's Method and the Orientations of Cultural Studies87
 Introduction: Politics and Cultural Criticism87
 The Partition of the Pedagogical90
 Against Satisfying Method92
 "Postmodern" Aims, Objectives and Outcomes94
 Training and Event97
 All that was solid101
ch. Five Rey Chow's Cultural Translation107
 Literal and Non-Literal Translation107
 The Queerness of Cultural Translation128
ch. Six Rey Chow's Alter-Native Conclusions139
 Cultural Studies after China139
 Rey Chow after Cultural Studies143
 Reiter(n)ation151
 AlterNatives154
 Notes161
 Bibliography167
 Index173
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