Volume 30, Numbers 1&2 (2022)
Contents
Editor’s Note
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Theorizing Asia
Theorizing Asia: An Introduction
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
Part I: Asia as a Theoretical Question
The Jargon of Asia: Toward the Possibility of Postcolonial Criticism in Korea
Hang Kim
On the “Outburst” of World Spirit
Joff P. N. Bradley
Reconfiguring Asian Modernity: Negotiating Tantric Epistemological Traditions
Abhisek Ghosal and Bhaskarjyoti Ghosal
The Diffractive Politics of Postcolonial Cyborg Translation
Chun-Mei Chuang
Worlding Asia Pacific into Oceania: Ecopoetic Transfigurations in the Anthropocene
Rob Sean Wilson
Part II: Modernity and Postmodernity in Asia
Theorizing Asiatic Contradiction: The User Experience of Contemporary Korean Literature
Ho Duk Hwang
A Comparison of Watsuji’s Fūdo and Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: Questioning an Equivalence between Japaneseness and Postmodernity
Harumi Osaki
Theorizing the Invisible for the Media Industry: Cryptology and the Unknown Inequality
Soo-Young Nam
Burning Barns: Poetics of Fire in Planetary Souths
Christopher Thouny
Part III: Dismantling Asia
Trauma, Guilt, and Shame in Ba Jin’s Random Thoughts
Min Yang
On the Way to Salvation: A Reading of Shinran’s Tariki in the Light of Heidegger’s Gelassenheit
Tony See
Invisible Atomic Bombs: Spectrality and the Testimonial Potency of the Atomic Bomb in Hibakusha and Post-Hibakusha Narrative
Jason C. Toncic
Theorizing East Asian Minor Cinema
Woosung Kang
General Articles
The Angel as Host: J. Hillis Miller’s Last Flight
Nidesh Lawtoo
The Neo-slave Narrative and Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada
W. Lawrence Hogue
Resisting Readability: Dyslexia and Sexuality in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Sparsholt Affair
Helena Gurfinkel
Contemplative Freedom in the Anthropocene: Inspiration from Sloterdijk
Jessica Ludescher Imanaka
Mastering the Parasite Within: Jean-Marie Pelt and Michel Serres’s Post-Darwinian Vision of an Ecology of Peace for the Anthropocene
Keith Moser
Reviews
What Can Poetry Do?
John McGowan
Foucault’s Formative Years
Paul Allen Miller
Sites of Sight: Derrida’s Writings on the Spatial Arts
Brian O’Keeffe
The Objective Form of the Object
H. Aram Veeser
Forum
Foucault’s Work: A Reminiscence of Ancient Days
Timothy Hampton
Foucault, Oedipus, and Virality
Mario Telò
In Foucault’s Wake
James I. Porter
Foucault’s Concretions
Karen S. Feldman
Foucault’s Use of Socrates
Ramona Naddaff
Response
Paul Allen Miller
Interviews
On Gaian Systems: An Interview with Bruce Clarke
Asijit Datta
Literary Theorist to Union Organizer: An Interview with Robin Sowards
Jeffrey J. Williams
Literary Theorist to University President: An Interview with Steven Knapp
Jeffrey J. Williams
Book Notes
Notice to Contributors
Forthcoming Issues