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EN326
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The Tiger Flu
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racialized influenza (connects to feminist antibodies > thinking about Covid, Ebola, etc.)
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orientalism
"hyper-technological east" to show where danger lies in western media (ex. ex machina, ghost in the shell, etc.)
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“From the Mental Leaves of a Eurasian” and/or “Its Wavering Image,” Sui Sin Far
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“Pan those tears prove that you are white” 64 (the emotions are her white side > emotionlessness from Chinese blood)
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The Cheat
Newspaper saying "young stock broker" but saying "Burmese ivory king" (only feel need to highlight one person's ethnicity when it is non-white, despite Mr. Harakau being the one who was shot)
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villainizing him in an erotic way (Isabelle read description/review saying to fulfill white women’s desire to be possessed by a man of a different race)
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without Mr. Arakau’s presence, Mrs. Hardy would just be a woman that stole from the red cross fund (which is fucked up but she gets no heat for it because he is there)
gender and asian masculinity > very different than how white masculinity is presented (slender, always in black, dormant, corrupts white woman in a submissive way)
husband away at work, instilling fear of what is happening with wife while away at work (threat to family unit)
M. Butterfly
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social construction as gender and how easily it can be changed, seeing gender expression as performance > dancers dressing
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Daughter of the Dragon
Fu Manchu being an immortal murderous villain > always played in yellow face (Nicholas Cage has played him???)
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China as a sleeping dragon > Fu Manchu > you think he’s dead but he’ll be back > yellow peril narrative
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Silent Anatomies (Ong)
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the greater good of the collective, family over self
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asian cultures + languages more conservative like in asian culture there is no discussion of contraceptives or birth control or pads/tampons etc.
map of Philippines on butterflied brain, how the homeland stays even when one is subjugated
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Carnal Orient
commenting on the white male desire of “exoticism” and the asian female that’s only worth is to please the white male
“without a way to name our pain, we are without words to articulate our pleasure”
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only asian man in film is disabled and working in a position of service > representing two different stereotypes
Animacies (Chen)
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otherness + animals in Disney movies > there is apparently no disney movie where a POC lead stays human the whole movie
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Orientalism (Said)
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“a submission to being” > west likes Japan because it submitted to west’s way of thinking more than China did (London’s piece)
the relationship between the Orient and the Occident and the Occident's inaccurate representations of the Orient through obscurity of its artificial ideas about the Orient
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The relationship between Occident and Orient is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degrees of a complex hegemony (5)
Orientalism relies on its strategy of positional superiority, putting the Westerner in a series of possible relationships with the Orient without ever losing the upper hand
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Fox Girl
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blood/spit pact
once the blood and bodily fluid is mixed it’s tainted forever / despite this being a promise, it is also something that has happened and cannot be undone/forgotten
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because father not with him (American father, Korean mother who was a prostitute), he ‘loses’ his American side in the eyes of those around him
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Racial Castration (Eng)
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“mental thoughts pass directly into action” in the presence of excessive ego and want of self-satisfaction
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Ornamentalism
concept of "the yellow woman": object-person who is radically undone yet luminously constructed–that is, meticulously and aesthetically composed yet degraded and disposable
parahumanity
The position of not being considered human beings, but not precisely inhuman
Cheng compares the perihumanity of Asian women to the parahumanity of Black women
“What happens when we consider ornamental forms and fungible surfaces, rather than organic flesh, as foundational terms in the process of race making?” (4)
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Racist Cute (Huang)
kawaii style created to eliminate the “threat of otherness” and to make Japanese people appear friendly and non-threatening
universal object of cuteness makes it so you can infiltrate the global market but also to say well lots of people consume these products so they must be okay
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