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"Deconstructing Compulsory Realpolitik in Cultural Studies: An Interview with Alexa Alice Joubin," American Journal of Chinese Studies 28.2 (October, 2021): 115-130.
- Author(s):
- Alexa Alice Joubin (see profile)
- Date:
- 2021
- Group(s):
- GS Drama and Performance, LLC East Asian, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC Shakespeare, MS Screen Arts and Culture
- Subject(s):
- Sex in literature, Race in literature, Globalization, Postcolonialism, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Translating and interpreting
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- East Asian cultures, film adaptation, theatre, Gender and race in literature, Postcolonial culture, Shakespeare, Critical race studies, Translation
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/4tyr-8692
- Abstract:
- How might we de-colonize hegemonic knowledge production about East Asia and its relationship with the West? This interview with Alexa Alice Joubin draws on new perspectives on cultural exchange in her book, Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021), which promotes treatment of Asian performing arts as original epistemologies rather than footnotes to the white, Western canon, and theory. We also present her latest thinking on multidisciplinarity. Her work, including Race (Routledge, 2019), has sought to deconstruct what she calls “compulsory realpolitik”—the conviction that the best way to understand non-Western cultures is by interpreting their engagement with pragmatic politics. In tandem with Anglo-Eurocentrism, she argues, compulsory realpolitik leads to the habitual privileging of the nation-state as a unit to organize knowledge.
- Notes:
- https://ajoubin.org/ajcs/
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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