10.4225/03/5902dbaea35b7
Daniel Black
Daniel
Black
Enma’s eye: Race, Observation, and The Oriental(ist) Gaze.
Monash University
2017
eyes
Japanese literature
race
gaze
Other Asian Literature (excl. South-East Asian)
Literature in Japanese
2017-04-28 06:05:29
Journal contribution
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Enma_s_eye_Race_Observation_and_The_Oriental_ist_Gaze_/4832387
"This paper is about vision, but also about the eye as a significant anatomical feature, and with the eye as a sign of Asianness. The Asian eye has long been fetishised as the mark of Oriental otherness. When investigating the specificity of the relationship between Japan and the West, this preoccupation with the eye opens up an interesting intersection of themes and significances. The organ of sight becomes a symbol for the motifs of sight and observation which saturate interaction between East and West, representing central issues of power, threat, appropriation and otherness."