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Nayoung Aimee Kwon

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

Scholarly Works - Book sections


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

Book section · 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

Book section · 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

Book section · 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

Book section · 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

Transcolonial Mis en Abyme

Book section · 2019 Cite

Foreign Husband

Book section · 2010 Cite

Foreign Husband

Book section · 2010 Cite