Concentric: Studies in English Literature and Linguistics

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    The Heterotopic Agent in Chu T'ien-hsin's "The Old Capital"
    (英語學系, 2012-09-??) Chien-Hsin Tsai
    A number of heterotopias coexist in Taiwanese writer Chu T'ien-hsin's novella "The Old Capital": spaces of memory, reality, history; and here I analyze the female narrator in the story as a "heterotopic agent."Building on Michel Foucault's initial conceptualization of heterotopia as literature, I examine the agency of Chu's narrator in terms of the operation of walking, the act of seeing, and the art of remembering, which, I argue, make the construction of a heterotopic space possible. The purpose of my Foucauldian reading of "The Old Capital" is twofold. On the one hand, it seeks to reconceptualize "heterotopias" in relation to the human subject. On the other hand, it intends to cast a new light on the creative agency of Chu, substantiated in her attempt to rewrite the past, live the present, and realize the future. From the perspective of "heterotopic agent," we may further entertain a creative hermeneutics of contemporary Taiwanese identity.
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    Of "Diminishing Memories" and "Old Places": Singaporean Films and the Work of Archiving Landscape
    (英語學系, 2013-03-??) Gaik Cheng Khoo
    The Singapore socio-cultural and historical landscape has undergone such rapid development and constant change that it has spurred a strong interest in heritage and nostalgia. This paper considers the role of digital independent Singaporean documentaries as part of "an ecology of associated hypomnesic milieus" (Bernard Stiegler), more specifically their role in archiving the disappearing and disappeared Singaporean landscape. This ecology of memory consists of blogs, social networking sites, and other uses of digital technology and the Internet. The personal stories found here include those of growing up in Singapore as late as the 1980s, and assert a sense of continuity and belonging, an affective experience derived from occupying Singapore’s past. I suggest that rather than merely documenting, archiving, and recreating the past and present, some of these nostalgia projects in effect act as premature archives, mourning a future loss and farewelling the present. But can nostalgia be productive? In what ways and for whom?
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    The Heterotopic Agent in Chu T'ien-hsin's "The Old Capital"
    (英語學系, 2012-09-??) Chien-Hsin Tsai
    A number of heterotopias coexist in Taiwanese writer Chu T'ien-hsin's novella "The Old Capital": spaces of memory, reality, history; and here I analyze the female narrator in the story as a "heterotopic agent."Building on Michel Foucault's initial conceptualization of heterotopia as literature, I examine the agency of Chu's narrator in terms of the operation of walking, the act of seeing, and the art of remembering, which, I argue, make the construction of a heterotopic space possible. The purpose of my Foucauldian reading of "The Old Capital" is twofold. On the one hand, it seeks to reconceptualize "heterotopias" in relation to the human subject. On the other hand, it intends to cast a new light on the creative agency of Chu, substantiated in her attempt to rewrite the past, live the present, and realize the future. From the perspective of "heterotopic agent," we may further entertain a creative hermeneutics of contemporary Taiwanese identity.