44 research outputs found
Intersectional Incoherence
No full textIntersectional Incoherence stages an encounter between the critical discourse on intersectionality and texts produced by Korean subjects of the Japanese empire and their postwar descendants in Japan, known as Zainichi Koreans. Arguing for intersectionality as a reading method rather than strictly a tool of social analysis, Cindi Textor reads moments of illegibility and incoherent language in these texts as a product of the pressures on Zainichi Koreans and their literature to represent both Korean difference from and affinity with Japan. Rejecting linguistic norms and representational imperatives of identity categories, Textor instead demands that the reader grapple with the silent, absent, illegible, or unintelligible. Engaging with the incoherent, she argues, allows for a more ethical approach to texts, subjects, and communities that resist representation within existing paradigms.
“Intersectional Incoherence offers an expansive critical curation of a significant but silenced Korean minority literature in Japan. By globalizing intersectional critique on race, gender, and disability, this book is a welcome development beyond Euro‑American postcolonial and critical race studies.” — Nayoung Aimee Kwon, author of Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan
“This rich and self‑reflective study aims to tell an anti‑essentialist literary history of the Zainichi community. The fruits of Cindi Textor’s close readings will be relevant to many other literary histories of communities around the world.” — Janet Poole, author of When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea
“A powerful intervention that forces us to rethink what literature is, what history is, and what identity is.” — Sonia Ryang, author of Language and Truth in North Kore
Intersectional Incoherence
No full textIntersectional Incoherence stages an encounter between the critical discourse on intersectionality and texts produced by Korean subjects of the Japanese empire and their postwar descendants in Japan, known as Zainichi Koreans. Arguing for intersectionality as a reading method rather than strictly a tool of social analysis, Cindi Textor reads moments of illegibility and incoherent language in these texts as a product of the pressures on Zainichi Koreans and their literature to represent both Korean difference from and affinity with Japan. Rejecting linguistic norms and representational imperatives of identity categories, Textor instead demands that the reader grapple with the silent, absent, illegible, or unintelligible. Engaging with the incoherent, she argues, allows for a more ethical approach to texts, subjects, and communities that resist representation within existing paradigms.
“Intersectional Incoherence offers an expansive critical curation of a significant but silenced Korean minority literature in Japan. By globalizing intersectional critique on race, gender, and disability, this book is a welcome development beyond Euro‑American postcolonial and critical race studies.” — Nayoung Aimee Kwon, author of Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan
“This rich and self‑reflective study aims to tell an anti‑essentialist literary history of the Zainichi community. The fruits of Cindi Textor’s close readings will be relevant to many other literary histories of communities around the world.” — Janet Poole, author of When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea
“A powerful intervention that forces us to rethink what literature is, what history is, and what identity is.” — Sonia Ryang, author of Language and Truth in North Kore
Enhancement and integration for CINDI system
No full textThe CINDI system is an assembly of inter-related subsystems, working together as a digital library for academic documents in the field of computer science. These subsystems include the CINDI Robot, which downloads scientific documents including theses, technical reports, FAQ's, academic papers and discussion groups, the CINDI Conference system and the CINDI Registration and Upload subsystem, where authors upload academic documents. In addition, there is the Gleaning subsystem that converts the non-PDF documents to PDF format and filters out the documents that are more appropriate, the Automatic Semantic Header Generator which locates information about the author, title, keywords, subject and abstract from the documents, and the CINDI Search subsystem which enables users to search for resources in the CINDI repository, This thesis is based on the techniques that were used for the integration of subsystems, which includes porting of the Document Converter from the Windows platform to Linux. Enhancements were made to the Registration and Upload subsystem to allow multiple file uploads and improvements were made to the Graphical User Interface. The CINDI Search subsystem was redesigned to improve functionality and its interface was made more user-friendly. We have also developed an Annotation subsystem allowing users to make comments on documents in the CINDI repository
Capitalismo vagabundo y la necesidad de la reproducción social - Cindi Katz
No full textNeste artigo Cindi Katz levanta um problema intrínseco da produção capitalista globalizada: o descompromisso com os lugares e seus habitantes, agravando desigualdades de classe, gênero, raça. A autora discute este problema de maneira singular a partir de uma abordagem materialista da reprodução social. Como a globalização, a reprodução social é examinada em seus aspectos político-econômicos, político-ecológicos e culturais. Em um caso ilustrado, sobre crianças e espaços públicos em Nova Iorque, ela desenvolve o conceito de reescalonamento da infância, e nos mostra como as geografias específicas se interligam aos processos globais através de escalas geográficas e translocalmente. Katz propõe, além disso, os conceitos de topografia e contra-topografia que são tanto uma maneira de analisar a intersecção dos processos globais e seus custos sociais, geograficamente desiguais, quanto um instrumento político para reconstruir solidariedades translocais e internacionalistas contra este errante e irresponsável capitalismo globalizado.En este artículo Cindi Katz plantea un problema intrínseco de la producción capitalista globalizada: el descompromiso con los lugares y sus habitantes, agravando las desigualdades de clase, gênero y raza. La autora discute este problema de manera singular desde una perspectiva materialista de la reproducción social. Asi como la globalización, la reproducción social es examinada en sus aspectos político-económicos, político-ecológicos y culturales. En un caso sobre niños y espacios públicos en la ciudad de Nueva York, ella desarrolla el concepto de redimensionamiento de la infancia, y nos muestra como las geografías específicas se interconectan a los procesos globales a través de escalas geográficas y translocalmente. Katz propone (sin ademas) los conceptos de topografía y contra-topografía, que es tanto una manera de analizar la intersección de los procesos globales y sus costos sociales, geográficamente desiguales, como un instrumento político para reconstruir solidaridades translócales e internacionalistas contra este errante e irresponsable capitalismo globalizado.In this article Cindi Katz raises an intrinsic problem of the globalized capitalist production: the disengagement with places and their inhabitants, reinforcing inequalities of class, gender, race. The author discusses this problem in a singular way through a materialist approach on social reproduction. As globalization, social reproduction is examined in its political-economic, political-ecological, and cultural aspects. In an illustrated case about children and public spaces in New York, she develops the concept of rescaling of children, and shows us how specific geographies interconnect with global processes through geographic scales, and translocally. Katz proposes, furthermore, the concepts of topography and counter-topography, which are ways of analysing the intersection of global processes and their geographically unequal social costs, as well as political tools for reconstructing translocal and internationalist solidarities against this errant and irresponsible globalized capitalism
Enhanced web based CINDI system
No full textThe web-based CINDI (Concordia INdexing and DIscovery) System attempts to solve the common problem of the current search engines, such as lack of a standard indexing and an information query interface. It proposes Semantic Header as the standard index scheme, and stores the index entry into MySQL database management system. By invoking a set of graphic user interface, the CINDI system allows the resource contributor to catalog his own resource and enables the user to search for hypermedia documents based on the title, author(s), keyword(s) and subject search criteria. This report describes the redesign and implementation of the Semantic Header database, and the design and implementation of the graphic user interface for the resource registration subsystem and resource search subsystem. The user-friendly interface has been implemented with PHP script language on the Linux platform. The three-tier client/server architecture is used in the web-based CINDI system, with Apache web server exchanging information between the web Browser (the client) and the backend MySQL database
Reseña de La tiranía de las moscas
No full textLa reseña de Cindi Alejandra Reyes Mondragón sobre La tiranía de las moscas, de Elaine Vilar Madruga, explora las complejidades simbólicas de la obra. Mediante un relato surrealista y grotesco, la novela narra una familia disfuncional que personifica la esclavitud del placer y la parodia de la sexualidad, el arte y la muerte, la violencia patriarcal y la tiranía del cuerpo femenino. En este sentido, la autora critica la mirada social sobre el cuerpo y los deseos, mostrándola como una prisión. Por lo tanto, el poder se manifiesta como un símbolo de una nación corrupta y, al mismo tiempo, del cuerpo femenino, ambos lugares de prevalencia, opresión y lucha.
Palabras clave: tiranía, cuerpo femenino, crítica social.
From the eschatological family to the submission of pleasure
The review written by Cindi Alejandra Reyes Mondragón of La tiranía de las moscas, by Elaine Vilar Madruga ,explores the symbolic complexities in this literary work. Through a surrealistic and grotesque story, the novel relates a dysfunctional family which embodies slavery of the pleasure and the sexuality parody, the art and death, patriarchal violence and the tyranny of female body. In this way, the author criticizes the social perspective about body and desires, showing it as a prison. Therefore, power is manifested as a corrupt nation symbol, and, at the same time, of the female body, both places of prevalence, oppression and fight.
Keywords: tyranny, female body, social criti
Queer(ing) Language in Yi Kwangsu’s<i>Mujŏng</i>: Sexuality, Nation, and Colonial Modernity
No full textAbstractThis article presents a queer reading of Mujŏng (Heartless, 1917) by Yi Kwangsu (1892–1950). Often touted as Korea’s first modern novel by virtue of its innovative vernacular language and concern with themes of individual subjectivity, this text illuminates the tension between the diverse modes of writing existing in precolonial Korea and the pressure to conform to a hegemonic modern form of written language. At the same time, the novel depicts a variety of romantic relationships—many outside the bounds of compliance with heteronormative notions of acceptable love—and the pressure on subjects engaged in these romances ultimately to comply with modern sexual norms. Thus the novel depicts the simultaneous constriction, in colonial context, of acceptable possibilities in the realms of language and sexuality. Nevertheless, Mujŏng also offers sites of resistance to these imperial reconfigurations. This article explores these sites, viewing the multifarious nature of the novel’s language as a form of queerness that mimics the queer sexualities presented in the course of the story. I argue that even as the politically tenable possibilities available under colonialism are diminished, the queer practices legible in Yi’s text offer the chance to forge new and empowering linguistic and sexual identities.</jats:p
A Translation and Critical Introduction of Kim Sok-bom's The Legend of the Ghost of Mandogi
No full textRadical Language, Radical Identity: Korean Writers in Japanese Spaces and the Burden to "Represent"
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06This dissertation examines literary texts by colonial Korean writers in the Japanese empire and the post-war “Zainichi” Korean minority in Japan. Whereas colonial Korean literature and Zainichi literature have typically been considered separately, I analyze them as part of a single trajectory, noting continuities in how Korean writers on both sides of the 1945 collapse of the empire struggle to avoid the dual traps of essentialism and assimilation. That is, in the face of pressures to assimilate into (post)imperial Japan, these writers grapple with the question of how to assert Korean particularity without reproducing stereotyped notions of Korean difference which were generated by the same imperial hierarchies. This overdetermined position—arising from the dual impulse to deconstruct essentialist difference and to avoid collapsing productive difference into a hegemonic mainstream—may be called the double bind of identity. The central focus of this project, then, is whether and how marginalized writers are able to overcome particular versions of this critical double bind through the medium of literary text. It further attempts to rethink the frameworks applied to these authors and texts, including modern Korean literature, modern Japanese literature, and even groupings like Zainichi literature that attempt to resist strictly national models, by shedding light on their participation in such overdeterminations. Looking closely at how writers work within and around the various constraints imposed on their writing, I argue that the hybrid language of these texts, located in the interstices and imbrications of Korean and Japanese spaces, is a potential site for radical representations of a particular “Korean” identity. The space of literary text offers a medium for representing identities less prone to falling into essentialist traps precisely because it is imaginary and undecidable. This radical language makes possible an escape from the double bind of identity faced by these writers: to simultaneously “represent” and transcend Korea. In this way, reading Korean writers in Japanese spaces not only offers a basis for critiquing ethno-national literary frameworks, but also has the potential to open up new possibilities for coping with difference, contributing to broader debates on intersectionality and identity politics. To that end, this dissertation takes up the particular intersectional circumstances of four Korean writers and their negotiations in hybrid literary texts: the queer language and subjectivities of Yi Kwangsu's Mujŏng, Ch'ae Mansik's ambiguously satirical repent for pro-Japanese collaboration, Kim Sŏkpŏm's invention of an imaginary Korea within the space of the Japanese language, and Kin Kakuei's attempt to “speak” through a narrator who stutters
