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2016

Suffering in silence: the politics of shaping cultural memory in the context of narratives around Korean "comfort women" in South Korea

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2016-January-01
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In <em>Tangled Memories</em>: <em>The Vietnam War, the Aids Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering, </em>Marita Sturken discusses the shaping of cultural memory in the U.S. in the context of the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. She writes that...

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Techno-Orientalism in contemporary Hollywood cinema

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2016-January-01
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Within the last few decades, cyberpunk has burgeoned in various fields of art, literature, and cinema. "Techno-Orientalism," the depiction of the "orient" in a digitalized environment, has been a major theme in cyberpunk. In works like Neal Stephenson's <em>Snow Crash </em>...

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