Category Archives: 5. EAST ASIA

WORDS AND LESIONS (2018, 16,800 words)

Posted on 9 June 2018 by darkosuvin

Abstract: The essay is divided into 2 parts. Part 1, For a Rectification of “Violence”, discusses within a “political epistemology of inflicted lesion” first the denotation and yardsticks of violence, then systemic or “structural” violence, and finally argues for counter-violence … Continue reading →

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SATOH’S DANCE OF ANGELS AS A DRAMATURGICAL DISCOURSE SEEKING AND DOUBTING THE YOUNG GENERATION’S REVOLUTION (2018, 10,350 words)

Posted on 15 February 2018 by darkosuvin

Published, perhaps with some more illos, in in Imaginations: J of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, Dec. 20, 12.2 (2021): 343–80, http://10.17742/IMAGE.MM.12.2.17 Part 1 analyses how the Black Tent Theatre (BTT) played Satoh’s Dance of Angels in 1970-71 on the basis of … Continue reading →

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AGAINST ORIGINALS: HONKADORI AND THE HORIZONS OF PASTICHE (1993-97, 8,220 words)

Posted on 25 May 1997 by darkosuvin

A Preliminary Reflection on Pastiche (As Well As Parody); On Japanese honkadori as Catalysis; Some Conclusions: On Originality

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INTRODUCTION [to LESSONS OF  JAPAN]: ON JAPAN AS MIRAGE AND FEEDBACK, AND OTHER ALLEGORIES (1996, 5,430 words)

Posted on 13 June 1996 by darkosuvin
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THE SOUL AND THE SENSE: MEDITATIONS ON ROLAND BARTHES ON JAPAN (A PROPOS OF THE EMPIRE OF SIGNS) (1990-96, 16,200 words)

Posted on 28 May 1996 by darkosuvin

Darko Suvin                                                                                                (1990-96, 16,200 words)                   … Continue reading →

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REVELATION VS. CONFLICT: DEITY VS. WARRIOR Nô PLAYS AND COMPARATIVE DRAMATURGY (1994, 16,200 words)

Posted on 30 September 1994 by darkosuvin
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ESSAY 2 [in Lessons of Japan]: AGAINST TRANSLATION-AND YET: SEESAWS, PIVOTS, AND PARENTHESES (TWO VOICES OF TRANSLATION DISCOURSE A PROPOS OF A HAIKU BY ISSA) (1993, 11,500 words)

Posted on 13 June 1993 by darkosuvin
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THE USE-VALUE OF DYING: MAGICAL VS. COGNITIVE UTOPIAN DESIRE IN THE”LEARNING PLAYS” OF PSEUDO-ZENCHIKU, WALEY, AND BRECHT (1991, 19,350 words)

Posted on 27 April 1993 by darkosuvin
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VISIONS OFF YAMADA (poem, 1988)

Posted on 11 April 1993 by darkosuvin

D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: P. Lang, 2021.

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UTOPIA IN THE ASIAN EIGHTIES: FIVE SONGLETS (1983-89, 800 words)

Posted on 9 April 1993 by darkosuvin

D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: P. Lang, 2021.ch25

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