Editor’s Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Editor’s Introduction ix
4. Acknowledgments xxv
5. Part 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity
6. 1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies 1
7. 2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation 20
8. 3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions 30
9. 4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic R Representation 48
10. 5. The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, Miscegenation, and the Formation of Community in Frantz Fanon 56
11. 6. When Whiteness Feminizes: Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic 76
12. Part 2. Filmic Visuality and Transcu cultural Politics
13. 7. Film and Cultural Identity 82
14. 8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship 92
15. 9. The Dream of a Butterfly 124
16. 10. Film as Ethnography; or, Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World 148
17. 11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth, Sixty Years Later 172
18. 12. From Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility 180
19. 13. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, a Different Type of Migration 196
20. Notes 215
21. Index 269