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Zairong Xiang

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Selected Publications


Ceremony: Burial of an Undead World

Book · December 2022 Artists and writers explore Sylvia Wynter's postcolonial dismantling of origin myths and cosmologies According to the influential Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, "we humans cannot pre-exist our origin myths any more ... ... Cite

Where are Shanghai’s Homeless? Or The Gentrification of the Visual

Chapter · November 3, 2021 Through scholarly essays, interviews, analyses of architectural case studies, and research on the historical and current situation in Los Angeles, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, São Paulo, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Tokyo, this book unfolds ... ... Cite

Memoria (genesis and creation of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2021 film Memoria)

Book · September 2021 A chronicle of the genesis and creation of Memoria, the new film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. After visiting Colombia in 2017, Apichatpong chose the country as the location for his first feature shot outside of his native Thailand. In the following two ... Link to item Cite

Writing in the Stone, or How to Curate a Funeral

Chapter · 2021 The contributors to this book question the obsolete category of the human, by imagining concepts from a new vocabulary of the process that can be called re-humanization. ... Cite

Minor Cosmopolitan Thinking Art, Politics, and the Universe Together Otherwise

Book · August 2020 Cosmopolitanism is a theory about how to live together. ... Cite

On the Epistemic Condition of Pandemic in a Globalized Present

Chapter · 2020 This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China in its human, social and political dimensions. ... Cite

THE ONTOLOGY OF THE COUPLE

Journal Article GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies · April 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Queer Ancient Ways A Decolonial Exploration

Book · November 14, 2018 In this radically unconventional work, Zairong Xiang investigates scholarly receptions of mythological figures in Babylonian and Nahua creation myths, exposing the ways they have consistently been gendered as feminine in a manner that is ... ... Cite

Transdualism

Journal Article TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly · August 1, 2018 AbstractThe author introduces the concept of transdualism to critique dualism without relying on a dualistic model of critique, the modus operandi necessary for a critique against sexual dualism and hetero/c ... Full text Cite

’adam is not man”: Queer Body before Genesis 2:22 (and After)

Chapter · May 25, 2018 This volume extends the insights of queer theory in order to unsettle or “queer” our understandings of “religion,” “science,” and the relationship between them. ... Cite

Below Either/Or: Rereading Femininity and Monstrosity Inside Enuma Elish

Journal Article Feminist Theology · January 2018 Often seen as a typical Chaoskampf, the cosmic struggle between Marduk and Tiamat in the Babylonian epic of creation, Enuma Elish, looked at closely belies this reading that has been dominating scholarship since the nineteenth century. Through a c ... Full text Cite

Camp as a Critical Strategy in Gu Changwei’s And the Spring Comes

Chapter · September 22, 2017 Critical. Strategy. in. And. the. Spring. Comes. Zairong. Xiang. Gu Changwei's 2007 film Li Chun or And the Spring Comes tells the story of the unrealizable dream of the talented school music teacher Wang Cailing who wants to become a ... ... Cite

The (De)Coloniality of Conceptual Inequivalence: Reinterpreting Ometeotl within Nahua Tlacuiloliztli

Chapter · September 21, 2016 Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures engages and problematizes concepts such as “decolonial” and “coloniality” to question methodologies in literary and cultural scholarship. ... Cite

Against Supercessionism

Other Arts of the Working Class Link to item Cite

Freedom in Quarantine

Other In the Midst at Critical Times Journal Link to item Cite

Radical Indifference

Other PASS: Journal of the International Biennial Association Link to item Cite