Kimberly J Lau
Biographic Data
| ID | 200917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberly J Lau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberly J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lau |
| SIGNATURE | LAU K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Vampire, the Queer, and the Girl: Reflections on the Politics and Ethics of Immortality's Gendering
This article reads Neil Jordan’s 2012 film Byzantium as a bridge between two distinct vampire vogues: one nineteenth century, masculinist, and queer; the other twenty-first century, heterosexualized, and focalized through the girl. In general, the vampire challenges chrononormativity, both because he enjoys a fantastic immortality and is associated with queerness and because the very genre of which he is a part is highly formulaic and intertextua…
Masculinity and Melancholia at the Virtual End: Leaving the World (of Warcraft)
Avatar suicide videos ritualize an avatar’s final exit from the virtual world. Focusing on such videos in the context of World of Warcraft, this essay argues first that the avatar-player relationship produces a fluid subjectivity; then, drawing on Judith Butler’s theory of melancholy gender, the author contends that this subjectivity enables a recognition of the same-sex love and desire prohibited by heterosexist culture through an enactment of i…
Imperial Marvels: Race and the Colonial Imagination in the Fairy Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy
This article reads Madame d’Aulnoy’s late seventeenth-century contes de fées against a cultural backdrop shaped by nascent ideas and ideologies of “race” as informed by early European exploration and travel and by France’s expanding colonial empire. Although colonization has been largely excluded from dominant paradigms of early modern French culture, recent scholarship suggests that it nonetheless figures prominently in the cultural imagination …
Half-Cup Rage
Retro: The Culture of Revival
Book Review| October 01 2011 Retro: The Culture of Revival Retro: The Culture of Revival. By Elizabeth E. Guffey. (London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. Kimberly J. Lau Kimberly J. Lau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2011) 124 (494): 336–338. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.124.494.0336 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kimberly J. Lau; Retro: The Cultur…
Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis (review)
Reviewed by: Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis Kimberly J. Lau Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis. Ed. Orvar Löfgren and Richard Wilk. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006. Pp. 164, introduction, about the authors.) Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis, edited by Orvar Löfgren and Richard Wilk, is a delightfully quirky and wonderfully provocative collection of twenty-five short essays dedicated to inspirin…
Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
This Text Which Is Not One: Dialectics of Self and Culture in Experimental Autoethnography
Kimberly J. Lau, This Text Which Is Not One: Dialectics of Self and Culture in Experimental Autoethnography, Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 39, No. 2/3, Special Double Issue: Dialogues (May - Dec., 2002), pp. 243-259
New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden
Serial Logic: Folklore and Difference in the Age of Feel-Good Multiculturalism
The serialization of products and events appeals to consumer desires in ways that also influence folkloristic paradigms for sharing cultural knowledges and presenting cultural arts. This article seeks to identify the logic of serialization and to problematize its relationship to our marketing of folk practices in the social context of feel-good multiculturalism
Structure, Society, and Symbolism: Toward a Holistic Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Just as the interplay between structure, symbolism, and cultural context is essential to understanding a language, so too is it for the interpretation of folklore. Alan Dundes has long advocated combining these three elements in the interpretation of folklore (1962; 1976; 1980), and he himself has demonstrated the value of this approach in his insightful interpretations of numerous folktales and ballads (1980; 1988). However, not until Bengt Holb…
New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden
Serial Logic: Folklore and Difference in the Age of Feel-Good Multiculturalism
The serialization of products and events appeals to consumer desires in ways that also influence folkloristic paradigms for sharing cultural knowledges and presenting cultural arts. This article seeks to identify the logic of serialization and to problematize its relationship to our marketing of folk practices in the social context of feel-good multiculturalism
Structure, Society, and Symbolism: Toward a Holistic Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Just as the interplay between structure, symbolism, and cultural context is essential to understanding a language, so too is it for the interpretation of folklore. Alan Dundes has long advocated combining these three elements in the interpretation of folklore (1962; 1976; 1980), and he himself has demonstrated the value of this approach in his insightful interpretations of numerous folktales and ballads (1980; 1988). However, not until Bengt Holb…
Imperial Marvels: Race and the Colonial Imagination in the Fairy Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy
This article reads Madame d’Aulnoy’s late seventeenth-century contes de fées against a cultural backdrop shaped by nascent ideas and ideologies of “race” as informed by early European exploration and travel and by France’s expanding colonial empire. Although colonization has been largely excluded from dominant paradigms of early modern French culture, recent scholarship suggests that it nonetheless figures prominently in the cultural imagination …
Half-Cup Rage
This Text Which Is Not One: Dialectics of Self and Culture in Experimental Autoethnography
Kimberly J. Lau, This Text Which Is Not One: Dialectics of Self and Culture in Experimental Autoethnography, Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 39, No. 2/3, Special Double Issue: Dialogues (May - Dec., 2002), pp. 243-259
Structure, Society, and Symbolism: Toward a Holistic Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Just as the interplay between structure, symbolism, and cultural context is essential to understanding a language, so too is it for the interpretation of folklore. Alan Dundes has long advocated combining these three elements in the interpretation of folklore (1962; 1976; 1980), and he himself has demonstrated the value of this approach in his insightful interpretations of numerous folktales and ballads (1980; 1988). However, not until Bengt Holb…
New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden
Serial Logic: Folklore and Difference in the Age of Feel-Good Multiculturalism
The serialization of products and events appeals to consumer desires in ways that also influence folkloristic paradigms for sharing cultural knowledges and presenting cultural arts. This article seeks to identify the logic of serialization and to problematize its relationship to our marketing of folk practices in the social context of feel-good multiculturalism
This Text Which Is Not One: Dialectics of Self and Culture in Experimental Autoethnography
Kimberly J. Lau, This Text Which Is Not One: Dialectics of Self and Culture in Experimental Autoethnography, Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 39, No. 2/3, Special Double Issue: Dialogues (May - Dec., 2002), pp. 243-259
Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis (review)
Reviewed by: Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis Kimberly J. Lau Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis. Ed. Orvar Löfgren and Richard Wilk. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006. Pp. 164, introduction, about the authors.) Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis, edited by Orvar Löfgren and Richard Wilk, is a delightfully quirky and wonderfully provocative collection of twenty-five short essays dedicated to inspirin…
Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis
This DOI is not currently attached to any metadata records. DOIs can’t actually ever be deleted (they’re persistent), but sometimes our members create DOIs in error. We do have a process to approximate deletion which we follow only in rare cases where the DOI has been genuinely created in error, and most crucially, if the DOI has never been published anywhere online or in print and never otherwise distributed to or communicated with anyone (autho…
Retro: The Culture of Revival
Book Review| October 01 2011 Retro: The Culture of Revival Retro: The Culture of Revival. By Elizabeth E. Guffey. (London: Reaktion Books, 2006. Pp. Kimberly J. Lau Kimberly J. Lau Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2011) 124 (494): 336–338. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.124.494.0336 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kimberly J. Lau; Retro: The Cultur…
Half-Cup Rage
Imperial Marvels: Race and the Colonial Imagination in the Fairy Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy
This article reads Madame d’Aulnoy’s late seventeenth-century contes de fées against a cultural backdrop shaped by nascent ideas and ideologies of “race” as informed by early European exploration and travel and by France’s expanding colonial empire. Although colonization has been largely excluded from dominant paradigms of early modern French culture, recent scholarship suggests that it nonetheless figures prominently in the cultural imagination …
Masculinity and Melancholia at the Virtual End: Leaving the World (of Warcraft)
Avatar suicide videos ritualize an avatar’s final exit from the virtual world. Focusing on such videos in the context of World of Warcraft, this essay argues first that the avatar-player relationship produces a fluid subjectivity; then, drawing on Judith Butler’s theory of melancholy gender, the author contends that this subjectivity enables a recognition of the same-sex love and desire prohibited by heterosexist culture through an enactment of i…
The Vampire, the Queer, and the Girl: Reflections on the Politics and Ethics of Immortality's Gendering
This article reads Neil Jordan’s 2012 film Byzantium as a bridge between two distinct vampire vogues: one nineteenth century, masculinist, and queer; the other twenty-first century, heterosexualized, and focalized through the girl. In general, the vampire challenges chrononormativity, both because he enjoys a fantastic immortality and is associated with queerness and because the very genre of which he is a part is highly formulaic and intertextua…
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