Eli Park Sorensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1644902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eli Park Sorensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eli Park |
| FAMILY NAME | Sorensen |
| SIGNATURE | SORENSEN E P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9912-0840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reconfiguring the Ideal Order: Ablation and Field Formation in the Twentieth-Century Nigerian Novel in English
Computational literary studies has developed sophisticated methods for detecting textual relationships – similarity networks, text reuse detection, semantic comparison – yet these approaches remain largely constrained to pairwise analysis. They reveal which texts resemble one another but cannot capture how individual works contribute to the collective semantic architecture of a corpus. This paper introduces a methodology that addresses this gap b…
Brothers Home and the Production of Vanished Lives
This article delves into the history of one of the most infamous internment facilities in Korea’s recent past—Hyungje Bokjiwon (형제복지원), or Brothers Home. The article outlines the history of Brothers Home, its biopolitical production of ‘vanished lives’, and what enabled it to come into existence—arguing that this is an essential context for understanding the history of international adoption from Korea. Located in Busan, South Korea, Brothers Hom…
Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism
Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt’s thought to provide a new theoretical approach to American cinematic sci-fi since the late 1970s. Drawing on Schmitt’s notion of the state of exception and its basis in the unpredictability of tomorrow, the book looks at the political ramifications when the moment of the future finally arrives. Analyzing films such as Alien , Blade Runner and Min…
Postcolonial Literary History and the Concealed Totality of Life
This article attempts to explore some current theoretical problems within the field of postcolonial studies. In particular, I address Ato Quayson's recent complaint that postcolonial theorists generally have failed to 'provide a persuasive account of literature and history simultaneously', a problem which I link to what I see as the field's theoretical obsession with the concept of 'representation'; I argue that the field's disciplinary ambition …
Postcolonial Studies and the Literary
Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalization in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests
Form and Temporality in Ousmane Sembène’s Xala
In the previous three chapters, I argued for the necessity of expanding the field’s aesthetic and political codifications, which more specifically involved developing a critical perspective broad enough to take into account literary strategies not necessarily corresponding to a dominating postcolonial vocabulary. Returning to some issues in Georg Lukács’s reflections on realism, I outlined the contours of a critical approach that attempted to avo…
Arcades of Foreignness: J. M. Coetzee’s Foe
As we have seen, Ousmane Sembène’s novel Xala explored the continued forms of colonial modes of exploitation in the aftermath of independence, in order to criticise the national bourgeoisie’s ideological use of nationalism as a rhetorical tool serving its own class interests. Within the field of postcolonial studies, one of the problems with Xala , as I mentioned earlier, is the novel’s alleged use of a western ‘naturalist’ form, which is probabl…
Novelistic Interpretation: The Traveling Theory of Lukács’s Theory of the Novel
Novelistic Interpretation: The Traveling Theory of Lukács’s Theory of the Novel Eli Park Sorensen (bio) Introduction1 In the essay “Traveling Theory” (1982), Edward Said suggests that the first time the understanding of a cultural event or phenomenon is filtered through a theoretical formulation, this formulation’s strength derives directly from the source of a concrete, historical context. Focusing on Georg Lukács’s theory of reification, Said a…
Postcolonial Melancholia
The article attempts to identify some of the boundaries and limits of postcolonial studies, with a specific focus on its relationship to the literary. Leading critics have argued that the contemporary field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic, as a consequence of its institutionalization in recent years, and the article suggests reading these signs of melancholia as an expression of the failed attempt to identify with the dimension of …
Postcolonial Literary History and the Concealed Totality of Life
This article attempts to explore some current theoretical problems within the field of postcolonial studies. In particular, I address Ato Quayson's recent complaint that postcolonial theorists generally have failed to 'provide a persuasive account of literature and history simultaneously', a problem which I link to what I see as the field's theoretical obsession with the concept of 'representation'; I argue that the field's disciplinary ambition …
Novelistic Interpretation: The Traveling Theory of Lukács’s Theory of the Novel
Novelistic Interpretation: The Traveling Theory of Lukács’s Theory of the Novel Eli Park Sorensen (bio) Introduction1 In the essay “Traveling Theory” (1982), Edward Said suggests that the first time the understanding of a cultural event or phenomenon is filtered through a theoretical formulation, this formulation’s strength derives directly from the source of a concrete, historical context. Focusing on Georg Lukács’s theory of reification, Said a…
Postcolonial Melancholia
The article attempts to identify some of the boundaries and limits of postcolonial studies, with a specific focus on its relationship to the literary. Leading critics have argued that the contemporary field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic, as a consequence of its institutionalization in recent years, and the article suggests reading these signs of melancholia as an expression of the failed attempt to identify with the dimension of …
Postcolonial Melancholia
The article attempts to identify some of the boundaries and limits of postcolonial studies, with a specific focus on its relationship to the literary. Leading critics have argued that the contemporary field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic, as a consequence of its institutionalization in recent years, and the article suggests reading these signs of melancholia as an expression of the failed attempt to identify with the dimension of …
Novelistic Interpretation: The Traveling Theory of Lukács’s Theory of the Novel
Novelistic Interpretation: The Traveling Theory of Lukács’s Theory of the Novel Eli Park Sorensen (bio) Introduction1 In the essay “Traveling Theory” (1982), Edward Said suggests that the first time the understanding of a cultural event or phenomenon is filtered through a theoretical formulation, this formulation’s strength derives directly from the source of a concrete, historical context. Focusing on Georg Lukács’s theory of reification, Said a…
Postcolonial Studies and the Literary
Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalization in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests
Form and Temporality in Ousmane Sembène’s Xala
In the previous three chapters, I argued for the necessity of expanding the field’s aesthetic and political codifications, which more specifically involved developing a critical perspective broad enough to take into account literary strategies not necessarily corresponding to a dominating postcolonial vocabulary. Returning to some issues in Georg Lukács’s reflections on realism, I outlined the contours of a critical approach that attempted to avo…
Arcades of Foreignness: J. M. Coetzee’s Foe
As we have seen, Ousmane Sembène’s novel Xala explored the continued forms of colonial modes of exploitation in the aftermath of independence, in order to criticise the national bourgeoisie’s ideological use of nationalism as a rhetorical tool serving its own class interests. Within the field of postcolonial studies, one of the problems with Xala , as I mentioned earlier, is the novel’s alleged use of a western ‘naturalist’ form, which is probabl…
Postcolonial Literary History and the Concealed Totality of Life
This article attempts to explore some current theoretical problems within the field of postcolonial studies. In particular, I address Ato Quayson's recent complaint that postcolonial theorists generally have failed to 'provide a persuasive account of literature and history simultaneously', a problem which I link to what I see as the field's theoretical obsession with the concept of 'representation'; I argue that the field's disciplinary ambition …
Science Fiction Film: Predicting the Impossible in the Age of Neoliberalism
Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt’s thought to provide a new theoretical approach to American cinematic sci-fi since the late 1970s. Drawing on Schmitt’s notion of the state of exception and its basis in the unpredictability of tomorrow, the book looks at the political ramifications when the moment of the future finally arrives. Analyzing films such as Alien , Blade Runner and Min…
Brothers Home and the Production of Vanished Lives
This article delves into the history of one of the most infamous internment facilities in Korea’s recent past—Hyungje Bokjiwon (형제복지원), or Brothers Home. The article outlines the history of Brothers Home, its biopolitical production of ‘vanished lives’, and what enabled it to come into existence—arguing that this is an essential context for understanding the history of international adoption from Korea. Located in Busan, South Korea, Brothers Hom…
Reconfiguring the Ideal Order: Ablation and Field Formation in the Twentieth-Century Nigerian Novel in English
Computational literary studies has developed sophisticated methods for detecting textual relationships – similarity networks, text reuse detection, semantic comparison – yet these approaches remain largely constrained to pairwise analysis. They reveal which texts resemble one another but cannot capture how individual works contribute to the collective semantic architecture of a corpus. This paper introduces a methodology that addresses this gap b…
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