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Nayoung Aimee Kwon

Nayoung Aimee Kwon

Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
na.kwon@duke.edu
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204 Erwin Road Room 209, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Millennial Vengeance: Park Chan-wook’s Agassi (The Handmaiden) and the Return of Postcolonial Japonisme

Chapter · February 2022 The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery. ... Cite

A MINOR MODERNIST’S CONUNDRUM OF REPRESENTATION: Kim Saryang and the Colonized I-Novel

Chapter · January 1, 2022 This chapter explores what I call the conundrum of representation widely manifest in artistic expressions of minor modernism. The negotiations of colonial modern writer Kim Saryang from Korea with the metropolitan literary establishment of imperial Japan o ... Full text Cite

The Figure of the Translator

Chapter · March 26, 2020 The Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature provides a comprehensive overview of a Korean literary tradition, which is understood as a multifaceted nexus of practices, both homegrown and transnational. ... Cite

The figure of the translator: Kim Saryang between Korean and Japanese literatures

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Kim Saryang was a Korean author who wrote in between the colonial periphery of Korea and the metropolitan center of Japan and who served as a war correspondent during the subsequent onset of the Cold War during the Korean War. Although he was an instrument ... Full text Cite

Japanophone Literature? A Transpacific Query on Absence

Journal Article MFS: Modern Fiction Studies · 2018 This essay inquires into the significance of the absent category of Japanophone literature in light of the recent rise of a global discourse on Sinophone literature and other postcolonial critical genealogies. This discussion of broader postcolonial taxono ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Disavowal and Intimacy

Journal Article Sanghŏ Hakpo · 2017 Cite

Intimate Empire Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan

Book · June 12, 2015 Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines the Japanese language literature written by Koreans during late Japanese colonialism. ... Cite

Conflicting nostalgia: Performing the tale of ch'unhyang (æ̃¥é™å) in the japanese empire

Journal Article Journal of Asian Studies · January 1, 2014 In the Japanese empire in 1938, an imperial-language theatrical adaptation of a folktale from colonial Korea, The Tale of Spring Fragrance (Ch'unhyang chǒn) opened to rave reviews in major metropolitan cities throughout Japan. The performance's popularity ... Full text Cite

What/Where is Decolonial Asia?

Journal Article Social Text · July 2013 Cite

“Collaboration, Coproduction, Code-Switching.”

Journal Article Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review · December 2012 Cite

From Wonso Pond

Journal Article JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES · November 2011 Full text Link to item Cite

Foreign Husband

Other · 2010 Cite

Foreign Husband

Chapter · 2010 Cite

Ambivalence of the ‘Colonized I-Novel’: Kim Saryang and the Japanese Literary Establishment.

Journal Article Journal of Korean Literature (Hanguk munhak yôngu) · December 2009 Cite

Broken Angels Volume 1

Book · February 7, 2006 Cite