What is especially interesting is the theme of abjection: once characters lose their sociopolitical subjectivity, cast out of their community, they struggle to regain their original identity or gain new subjectivity. ![]() ‘Global East Asian cinema’ could then be termed for critical engagement with global phenomena and their influences on the notions of community and subjectivity as reflected or allegorized in the East Asian context. Then how does cinema address today’s global life? This special double issue of Studies in the Humanities addresses this question in the frame of ‘global East Asia,’ with its Asian identity taking on a sort of compatible locality that is not absolutely confined in Asian particularity. Political dialectics has turned into the absolute antagonism between the ‘soft’ ethical inclusion of differences in the whole and the ‘hard’ ethical backlash from its excluded remnants. Globalization has brought a blossoming of inclusive systems of transnational capitalism, multicultural traffic, and networking technology, while also generating symptoms of exclusion related to migration/refuge, precarious life, and various catastrophes that debunk the holistic universality of one rainbow global village.
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