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Visuality, Emotions and Minority Culture

Feeling Ethnic

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Editors:
  1. John Nguyet Erni

    1. Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

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  • Offers a unique collection of papers exploring ethnic minority, media, and affective experiences and politics
  • Explores situations in various Asian regions, countries and cities, including Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Australasia, Singapore and Shanghai
  • Examines self-reflexivity within the research communities ?

Part of the book series: The Humanities in Asia (HIA, volume 3)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Affect and Critical Multiculturalism in Asia

    • John Nguyet Erni
    Pages 1-9

  3. How Does One Feel Ethnic? Embodiment and Urban Space

    • Paul O’Connor
    Pages 11-26

  4. Queer Fish: Eating Ethnic Affect

    • Elspeth Probyn
    Pages 27-44

  5. Negotiating Difference and Cultural Minoritization: Chinese Migrant Workers in Singapore’s Little India

    • Selvaraj Velayutham
    Pages 45-55

  6. Are There “Proper” Migrants? The Making of Affective Personhood Through Films by Migrants in South Korea

    • Hyun Mee Kim
    Pages 57-70

  7. Sugarcoated Racism: Managing Racialized Anxieties in Hong Kong Television Drama

    • Daren Shi-chi Leung
    Pages 71-92

  8. Happy Campers: “All About Us” and Self-representation

    • John Nguyet Erni, Louis Ho
    Pages 93-110

  9. What’s Love Got to Do with Ethnic Tensions in Hong Kong?

    • Kwai-Cheung Lo
    Pages 111-129

  10. Learning Critical Multicultural Empathy Through Ethnic Minorities’ Media Self-representation in Japan

    • Yuko Kawai
    Pages 131-146

  11. Hegemonic Pan-Ethnic White Australian Masculinity: Feeling Masculine During Mediated-Assemblages

    • Clifton Evers
    Pages 147-161

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 163-164
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About this book

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?

Editors and Affiliations

  • Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

    John Nguyet Erni

About the editor

John Nguyet Erni is Chair Professor in Humanities and Head of the Department of Humanities & Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University.  Erni has published widely on international and Asia-based cultural studies, human rights legal criticism, Chinese consumption of transnational culture, gender and sexuality in media culture, youth consumption culture in Hong Kong and Asia, and critical public health.  He was a recipient of the Rockefeller and Annenberg research fellowships.  He is also an elected Fellow and Member of the Executive of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.   He is the author or editor of nine books, most recently (In)visible Colors: Images of Non-Chinese in Hong Kong Cinema – A Filmography, 1970s – 2010s (with Louis Ho, Cinezin Press, 2016); Visuality, Emotions, and Minority Culture (forthcoming in 2016, Springer); Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong (with Lisa Leung, HKUP, 2014).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Visuality, Emotions and Minority Culture

  • Book Subtitle: Feeling Ethnic

  • Editors: John Nguyet Erni

  • Series Title: The Humanities in Asia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53861-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-53859-3Published: 10 January 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-57166-8Published: 30 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-53861-6Published: 28 December 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2363-6890

  • Series E-ISSN: 2363-6904

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 164

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Social Anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies, Communication Studies, Cultural Studies

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