Visuality, Emotions and Minority Culture
Feeling Ethnic
Editors: Erni, John N (Ed.)
Free Preview- Offers a unique collection of papers exploring ethnic minority, media, and affective experiences and politics
- Explores situations in various Asian regions, countries and cities, including Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Australasia, Singapore and Shanghai
- Examines self-reflexivity within the research communities
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- About this book
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This book, stemming from an international conference, mainly explores the “private sphere” of minority cultures. To date, insufficient attention has been paid to ethnic minorities’ sense of subjecthood, e.g. their construction and articulation of self-understanding formed through lived experiences, sensibilities, emotions, sentiments, empathy, and even tempers and moods. Social misunderstanding, not to mention stereotyping, mystification and discrimination, often stems from neglecting the surprising and enlivening texture of minorities’ emotional world. Taking the important cue of the “affective turn” in cultural theory in recent years, the contributors address questions such as: what are the representations of affective/emotional energies and intensities surrounding the ethnic figures/strangers in visual culture (e.g. passivity, shame, anger, joy, empathy, charm, belonging, etc.)?; how do ethnic minorities respond to these visual narratives, and how can their self-representation through visual discourse reveal and transform their lived experiences?
- About the authors
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John Nguyet Erni is Chair Professor in Humanities and Head of the Department of Humanities & Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. Erni has published widely on international and Asia-based cultural studies, human rights legal criticism, Chinese consumption of transnational culture, gender and sexuality in media culture, youth consumption culture in Hong Kong and Asia, and critical public health. He was a recipient of the Rockefeller and Annenberg research fellowships. He is also an elected Fellow and Member of the Executive of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. He is the author or editor of nine books, most recently (In)visible Colors: Images of Non-Chinese in Hong Kong Cinema – A Filmography, 1970s – 2010s (with Louis Ho, Cinezin Press, 2016); Visuality, Emotions, and Minority Culture (forthcoming in 2016, Springer); Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong (with Lisa Leung, HKUP, 2014).
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction: Affect and Critical Multiculturalism in Asia
Pages 1-9
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How Does One Feel Ethnic? Embodiment and Urban Space
Pages 11-26
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Queer Fish: Eating Ethnic Affect
Pages 27-44
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Negotiating Difference and Cultural Minoritization: Chinese Migrant Workers in Singapore’s Little India
Pages 45-55
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Are There “Proper” Migrants? The Making of Affective Personhood Through Films by Migrants in South Korea
Pages 57-70
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Visuality, Emotions and Minority Culture
- Book Subtitle
- Feeling Ethnic
- Editors
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- John N Erni
- Series Title
- The Humanities in Asia
- Series Volume
- 3
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-662-53861-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-662-53861-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-662-53859-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-662-57166-8
- Series ISSN
- 2363-6890
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 164
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 illustrations in colour
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