• Essays

    Queering the Colony: Tracing and Resisting Japanese Imperial History in Taiwan Travelogue

    Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s 2020 award-winning novel, Taiwan Travelogue is a historiographic metafictional examination of Japanese colonialism as situated within the prism of global imperial motions. In this essay, I argue that Taiwan Travelogue queers Japanese imperial history by exposing colonial power as simultaneously mimetic, heteronormative, and unstable.

  • Academic Chatter

    Welcome to [re]frame

    Dear visitor, thank you so much for being here! What you currently see here is the result of almost two years of work, with some changes among the founding members and many obstacles to overcome. It all started with a conversation during a digital coffee hour for early career researchers (ECR), where we lamented the limited visibility of our research and the many invisible barriers (and unwritten laws) in academic publishing. Out of this arose the – perhaps ambitious – idea to create a space that would not only draw attention to the work done by researchers in their early…