Visuality, Emotions and Minority Culture: Feeling Ethnic (The Humanities in Asia (3))

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?-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: Affect and Critical Multiculturalism in Asia....Pages 1-9 How Does One Feel Ethnic? Embodiment and Urban Space....Pages 11-26 Queer Fish: Eating Ethnic Affect....Pages 27-44 Negotiating Difference and Cultural Minoritization: Chinese Migrant Workers in Singapore’s Little India....Pages 45-55 Are There “Proper” Migrants? The Making of Affective Personhood Through Films by Migrants in South Korea....Pages 57-70 Sugarcoated Racism: Managing Racialized Anxieties in Hong Kong Television Drama....Pages 71-92 Happy Campers: “All About Us” and Self-representation....Pages 93-110 What’s Love Got to Do with Ethnic Tensions in Hong Kong?....Pages 111-129 Learning Critical Multicultural Empathy Through Ethnic Minorities’ Media Self-representation in Japan....Pages 131-146 Hegemonic Pan-Ethnic White Australian Masculinity: Feeling Masculine During Mediated-Assemblages....Pages 147-161 Back Matter....Pages 163-164