Mark C Jerng
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark C Jerng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark C |
| FAMILY NAME | Jerng |
| SIGNATURE | JERNG M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Law and SF Studies
Speculative Fictions of Legal Personhood
N.K. Jemisin’s speculative tropes in The City We Became capture a significant legal reality: the entanglement of legal personhood with jurisdiction and how the powers of jurisdiction are often exercised in racial directions. This article juxtaposes her novel with canonical case law, re-reading Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Parents Involved in Cmty. Sch. v. Seattle Sch. Dist. No. 1 in order to show how speculative imaginings inte…
Racial Worldmaking
A World of Difference
Science fiction poses particular dilemmas for referential reading practices privileged in ethnic literary studies and African American literature. Because science fiction often requires the reader to discern the governing norms and values of its constructed, alternative world, it questions the traditional contexts and visual cues by which racial difference appears as racial difference at all. In this essay, Jerng first analyzes how race has been …
Claiming Others
Nowhere in Particular
Recognizing the Transracial Adoptee
Journal Article Recognizing the Transracial Adoptee: Adoption Life Stories and Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life Get access Mark C. Jerng Mark C. Jerng Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 31, Issue 2, March 2006, Pages 41–67, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/31.2.41 Published: 01 March 2006
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Recognizing the Transracial Adoptee
Journal Article Recognizing the Transracial Adoptee: Adoption Life Stories and Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life Get access Mark C. Jerng Mark C. Jerng Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 31, Issue 2, March 2006, Pages 41–67, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/31.2.41 Published: 01 March 2006
Claiming Others
Nowhere in Particular
A World of Difference
Science fiction poses particular dilemmas for referential reading practices privileged in ethnic literary studies and African American literature. Because science fiction often requires the reader to discern the governing norms and values of its constructed, alternative world, it questions the traditional contexts and visual cues by which racial difference appears as racial difference at all. In this essay, Jerng first analyzes how race has been …
Racial Worldmaking
Speculative Fictions of Legal Personhood
N.K. Jemisin’s speculative tropes in The City We Became capture a significant legal reality: the entanglement of legal personhood with jurisdiction and how the powers of jurisdiction are often exercised in racial directions. This article juxtaposes her novel with canonical case law, re-reading Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Parents Involved in Cmty. Sch. v. Seattle Sch. Dist. No. 1 in order to show how speculative imaginings inte…
Law and SF Studies
Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law in Society and Culture (2 works) · Political science (2 works)