Penumbrae Query Shadow II: Thing-in-between
Publication Date|2022-12-01
Authors|Nai-fei Ding, Amie Parry, Nicholas de Villiers, Wen-ling Lin, Chien-Ting Lin, Dennis C. Lin, Hsin-wen Chang, Wing-kwong Wong, Jen-peng Liu
Press|陽明交大出版社
ISBN|9789865470487
Synopsis
Imagining the be-coming-in-common of “the multitude of penumbrae”
Under different categories, structures, and modes of
Affect, Sex, and Non-human
and with the Thing-in-between as Method
“Penumbrae Query Shadow,” with its original meaning (as the faint shading at the exterior of a shadow) allegorizes a state of double marginality (the margin of the margin), a (quasi) subject receding at every layer of the strata. The receding point of its reference also entails the impossibility of mutual referencing. The articles in this book extend the initial queries of Penumbrae Query Shadow: Queer Reading Tactics published 15 years ago, by reflecting on the external and internal limits of its history and concepts, revisiting the lingering and unresolved questions and theses there, and identifying multiple forms of beings yet in their indistinct profiles. Here “penumbrae”, as the faint shadings at the exterior of shadows, is no longer limited to the narrow sense of “sexual minorities,” but instead extends to many unnameable things—— a cohort not only of the anthropo-subjects of yaos and concubines, but also of the material penumbrae (roads, nuclear waste, severed fingers, the speculative genre), the affective penumbrae (negativity, emptiness, ancient ghosts). The book as a sequel unfolds the queries of the penumbrae from an elusive spatio-temporal position provided by reading the penumbrae allegories of “the passing sundial shadows, the unabiding shady minute” (Zhang Taiyan, 1869-1936) and “that which is neither this nor that ” (Yan Fu, 1854-1921) and reflects anew on the trajectories of the “Things-in-between” in the modernity formations and thoughts in the inter-Asia localities.
The import of “the multitude of penumbrae” as method lies in the “query””- which is to say,
a potent form of pensée, querying at the margins.
This book attempts to take Lu Xun(1881-1936)’s re-inscription/rendering of Nietzsche(1844-1900)’s usage of the word “Mitte”(noun.: middle, between, midst, mean), from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, as the “tropical” concept of zhong-jian-wu (Thing-in-
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Academic praise (alphabetical by surname)
CHANG Hsiao-Hung | Distinguished Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
Chieh-Jen CHEN | Renowned Taiwan Contemporary Artist
Kuan-Hsing CHEN | Chief Editor, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and Renjian Thought Review
Pei-Jean CHEN | Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University
Lik Kwan CHEUNG | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fred Y.L. CHIU | Social Movement Hound
Xu-Kuan GAO | Activist for the Transgender Movement
Wai-Siam HEE | Associate Professor, School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University
Josephine HO | Chair Professor / Professor Emeritus, Department of English, National Central University
Lin-Ching HSIA | Retired Professor, Department of Psychology, Fu Jen Catholic University; Senior Chair Professor, Education Faculty, Beijing Normal University
Yingying HUANG | Professor & Doctoral Supervisor, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China
Lucifer HUNG | Associate Professor, Graduate Institute for Gender Studies, Shih Hsin University
Yung-Chao LIAO | Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
Joyce LIU | Emeritus Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; Contracted Professor, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies International Degree Program
Cindy PATTON | Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Teri J. SILVIO | Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Chih-Ming WANG | Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
WANG Ping | Secretary General, Gender/Sexuality Rights Association, Taiwan
WU Jing-Ru | Research Fellow, Taiwan International Workers’ Association (TIWA)
YAU Ching | Professor, Department of English, National Central University
Jieping ZHANG | Founder and CEO of Matters Lab; Former Chief Editor of Initium Media
Contents
Preface | Not Belated but yet to Come: the Temporalities of Thing-in-between and the Multitude of Penumbrae / Pei-Jean Chen
Introduction | “Thing-in-between(zhong-jian-
Part 1 Passing Sundial Shadows: Between Historical Transformation and Knowledge Formation
Sex, Yin, Translation: Nooks and Crannies of Sex/Gender Knowledge Reconfiguration in Late Qing China / Jen-peng Liu
The Negative Transference in Inter-Asian Encounters: Qu Qiubai and Tagore, 1924 / Wing-Kwong Wong
Winners Take All! Marriage Transformation and Women’s Rights Evolution / Naifei Ding; trans. Hans Tao-Ming Huang
Part 2 In-dependent One? Between Emptiness and (Racial) Hierarchicus
What is Zhu-ti-xing/Subjectivity in Taiwan? An Exercise of Inter-Asia Methodology / Hsing-Wen Chang
Fixing the Severed Fingers: The Militarization of Injured Nationalism and Racialized Cold War Liberal Humanism / Chien-Ting Lin
Flamboyantly Yao: Shanzhai Gender/Sexual Modularization Among Contemporary Chinese Yaos / Dennis Chwen-der Lin
Part 3 The Queerness of Woods-Stones: Between the Material Turn and the Unknown New Terrain
Mediations and Transformations of Social Issues: Analysis of Two Taiwan Indigenous Documentaries of Sasuyu Ubalat / Wen-Ling Lin
Uncertain Futures of Chinese Trans Sex Workers and Testimonial Documentary / Nicholas de Villiers; trans. Mei-fong Siu, Xing Zhang; ed. and trans. Dennis Chwen-der Lin
The Speculative Turn: Parables for the Millennium / Amie Parry; trans. Jun-Yu Zhang; ed. and annot. Yu-Jen Fang
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