3. Ambivalent Anticommunism: The Politics of Despair and the Erotics of Language

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Visuality and the Colonial Modern: The Technics of Proletarian Culture, Nativism, Modernism, and Mobilization 19
7. 2. Visible and Invisible States: Liberation, Occupation, Division 61
8. 3. Ambivalent Anticommunism: The Politics of Despair and the Erotics of Language 91
9. 4. Development as Devolution: Overcoming Communism and the “Land of Excrement” Incident 129
10. 5. Return to the Colonial Present: Translation, Collaboration, Pan-Asianism 165
11. Postscript 205
12. Notes 211
13. Selected Bibliography 245
14. Index 259