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Tiger Flu, Larissa Lai
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“I dance for the tiger flu, for Ebola, for AIDS, smallpox, measles, tuberculosis, Black Plague, and death" (70)
Small detail, but interesting/spooky how this is a record of all of the endemics that we knew of in 2018 when the book was published and yet a mere 2 years later we'd have covid added to the list
interesting how I don't wish this world on anyone, but I do wish their past was our present, a world without covid :/
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Kiri unknowingly eating her fellow grist sisters (when she is fed the fish in prison) -- a way of dominating over her/reinforcing control over her?
M. Butterfly
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Sexualization of Song
Sexuality exploited, used as a tool to assist greater powers
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Act III: "Well, Your Honor, it was my job to make him think I was a woman."
"Your Honor" --> Their marriage is a spectacle of sorts, something to be defended, something deemed guilty
Song speaking on behalf of a marriage that only made real and constructed through the act of performance
Interesting how this is meant to make us believe that their marriage was a lie, and it is therefore not real, but performativity plays such a crucial role in our society, as it creates these strict gender, sexual, racial roles and personas and imposes them onto others
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"Racist Cute," Leslie Bow
cute, kawaii style
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reality: "racist cute" -- these supposedly pleasurable and cute items are radicalized so as to create an "enjoyment of unequal relations of power"
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Anne Allison, "Japanese Mothers and Obentōs: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus" (This is a reading that was assigned in my anthropology class but I saw some similarities to Racist Cute and thought I would include it here!)
Basic Summary of reading: Japanese mothers make obetnōs for their nursery-school age children. Obentōs are very elaborate, precise, beautifully arranged lunch boxes that have become a large aspect of Japanese culture as well as Japanese femininity, according to Allison
"Common sense acceptance of a particular world is the work of ideology, and it works by concealing the coercive and repressive elements of our everyday routines but also by making those routines of the everyday familiar, desirable, and simply our own."
Similar to racist cute; The making of obentōs places Japanese mothers/obentō makers into these specific gendered roles, but it is disguised as doing something cute and kind for one's child
in making obentōs, there is a social order being enforced and gender/gendered behavior is being used to further enforce that social order
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The obentōs become a reflection of the person making them... if they are not impressive, then the obentō maker is deemed a bad parent
Ideological State Apparatus: "institutions with some overt function other than a political and/or administrative one"
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The message of the obentō: the precision of the obentō mimics the precision of the world; it is women, or Japanese mothers, who are responsible for "carrying the ideological support of the culture that this food embeds"
Something that on the surface looks like a cute and fun cultural ritual between mother and child is actually a discreet way of further enforcing very strict social orders and rules
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"Animacies," Mel Chen
Animality and race
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Fu Manchu
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felinized
rendered feminine, Chen argues Fu Manchu could be considered transgendered and/or trans species
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The Love Doll: Days 1-36, Laurie Simmons
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"From the Mental Leaves of a Eurasian," Sui Sin Far (218-230)
218: "I fail to make myself intelligible" --> idea of age invalidating one's experience; their age limits what they can express/say but not what they can experience/feel; they are then called a "storyteller," implying that they are telling a lie, invalidating their experience
creates a core memory of being deemed "other," while also not having a right to that experience, as it is dictated by others
220: "Now and then we are stop and plied with questions as to what we eat and drink, how we go to sleep, if my mother understands what my father says to her, if we sit on chairs or squat on floors, etc., etc., etc."
illustration of the west's need to understand/categorize people; goes back to "Orientalism" and our class discussion--> how the west feels the need to place others into spaces/positions that make them more "digestible" to them
221: the strength of the narrator's emotions overpowering the strength of their body--> reminds me of affect studies and "Parable of the Sower" --> Lauren's mental state directly impacts her physical condition and it is seen as being vulnerable; the narrator's emotions are seen as a "weakness"
"The Implantation of the Perverse," Foucault
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Until 18th century, there were 3 "codes" that governed sexual practices:
- Canonical Law
- The Christian Pastoral
- Civil Law
All centered around matrimonial relations
marriage as a spectacle
"If it was found to be lacking, it had to come forward and plead its case before a witness" (37).
marriage as an institution being guilty of something, guilty of "lacking" something
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giving previously unheard voices that challenge heteronormativity a platform, only to further scrutinize them
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"The Unparalleled Invasion," Jack London
Initial Thoughts: I found the concept of countries having a "common psychological speech" to be very interesting, as this is an unusual way of describing international relations. To say that they have a shared thought process is to imply that their relationships can be quite intimate.
A Nation's Psyche and its Implications
It is this shared internal "speech" that can add to a nation's vulnerability, as London suggests; Western nations cannot "awaken" and defeat China because they do not have this shared thought process, however Japan can because they have "a heritage in common," as well as a sense of "sameness in kind" and mind.
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"Orientalism," Said
Orientalism
a way of coming to terms with the Orient that is based on the Orient's special place in European Western experience
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corporate institution for dealing with the Orient by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, teaching it, selling it, ruling over it
western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient
West making a series of claims about the Orient that are "digestible" ; refashioning the subject; Orientalism is a submission of being
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Shimizu, "Hypersexuality of Race"
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"Ornamentalism," Anne Anlin Cheng
Perihumanity: “the peculiar in-and-out position, the peripherality and the proximity of the Asiatic woman to the ideals of the human and the feminine.”
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