Visuality, emotions and minority culture : feeling ethnic

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"This book, stemming from an international conference, mainly explores the "private sphere" of minority cultures. To date, insufficient attention has been paid to ethnic minorities’ sense of subjecthood, e.g. their construction and articulation of self-understanding formed through lived experiences, sensibilities, emotions, sentiments, empathy, and even tempers and moods. Social misunderstanding, not to mention stereotyping, mystification and discrimination, often stems from neglecting the surprising and enlivening texture of minorities' emotional world. Taking the important cue of the "affective turn" in cultural theory in recent years, the contributors address questions such as: what are the representations of affective/emotional energies and intensities surrounding the ethnic figures/strangers in visual culture (e.g. passivity, shame, anger, joy, empathy, charm, belonging, etc.)?; how do ethnic minorities respond to these visual narratives, and how can their self-representation through visual discourse reveal and transform their lived experiences?"--Nakladatelská anotace … full description

Bibliographic Details

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John Nguyet Erni
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Document Type

Books

Physical Description

1 online zdroj (ix, 164 stran) : barevné ilustrace

Published

Berlin, Germany : Springer, [2017]

Series

The humanities in Asia

Subjects

etnologie > an

kultura > so

komunikování > ja

sociální diskriminace > so

etnická diskriminace > so

etnické menšiny

kolektivní monografie

elektronické knihy

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ISBN

978-3-662-53861-6

Contents

1. Introduction: Affect and Critical Multiculturalism in Asia -- 2. How Does One Feel Ethnic? Embodiment and Urban Space -- 3. Queer Fish: Eating Ethnic Affect -- 4. Negotiating Difference and Cultural Minoritization: Chinese Migrant Workers in Singapore's Little India -- 5. Are There "Proper" Migrants? The Making of Affective Personhood Through Films by Migrants in South Korea -- 6. Sugarcoated Racism: Managing Racialized Anxieties in Hong Kong Television Drama -- 7. Happy Campers: "All About Us" and Self-representation -- 8. What’s Love Got to Do with Ethnic Tensions in Hong Kong? -- 9. Learning Critical Multicultural Empathy Through Ethnic Minorities' Media Self-representation in Japan -- 10. Hegemonic Pan-Ethnic White Australian Masculinity: Feeling Masculine During Mediated-Assemblages