Travis Workman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Travis Workman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Travis |
| FAMILY NAME | Workman |
| SIGNATURE | WORKMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cinema Under National Reconstruction
Mediating Neo-Feudalism
Colonizing Language
Reviewed by: Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea by Christina Yi Travis Workman (bio) Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea. By Christina Yi. Columbia University Press, New York, 2018. xiv, 211 pages. $65.00, cloth; $64.99, E-book. A number of scholarly publications on the Japanese empire have come out in the last two decades, expanding our und…
A minor philosophy of world
This article discusses Édouard Glissant's theory of Relation as a minor philosophy of world that breaks from the spatialization of time and the anthropological cosmopolitanism of Enlightenment thought and Cold War area studies. The first part connects two dominant Cold War area studies discourses-modernization theory and cultural anthropology-to Immanuel Kant's Anthropology and Michel Foucault's reading of it, showing how area studies discourses …
The Perils of Comparison in Subaltern Studies and Its Critique
Imperial Genus
Imperial Genus
Imperial Genus
Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan’s cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human’s genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, literature, and social science. Imperial Genus focuses on how n…
Narrating and Aestheticizing Liberation in Hurrah! for Freedom and My Home Village
This article examines two films that have become canonical representations of national liberation in South Korea and North Korea: Hurrah! for Freedom (Jayu manse, Choe In-kyu, 1946) and My Home Village (Nae gohyang, Kang Hongsik, 1949). Taking the liberation period (1945-1948) as a postcolonial moment before the complete entrenchment of the Cold War system and its attendant conflicts and ideologies, it analyzes how the films look to the recent pa…
Other scenes
This essay discusses how cinematic counterpoint functions spatially in South Korean film melodrama, as well as in some North Korean productions. Drawing from canonical studies of melodrama, including Thomas Elsaesser's work, it argues that focusing on mise-en-scène and sound in readings of film melodrama can bring to light the ambivalences, or contrapuntal connections, between its moods and its narrative and thematic discourses. It understands fi…
Sŏ In-sik's Communism and the East Asian Community (1937 – 40)
This article discusses the philosophical works of Sŏ In-sik, who published mainly between 1937 and 1940, following his five-year imprisonment as a member of the M-L (Marxist-Leninist) group and the Korean Communist Party. While it recognizes a major shift in his thinking in 1938, this article questions the assertion that the “preconversion” and “postconversion” works can be strictly separated in terms of their content. Rather than making an immed…
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Sŏ In-sik's Communism and the East Asian Community (1937 – 40)
This article discusses the philosophical works of Sŏ In-sik, who published mainly between 1937 and 1940, following his five-year imprisonment as a member of the M-L (Marxist-Leninist) group and the Korean Communist Party. While it recognizes a major shift in his thinking in 1938, this article questions the assertion that the “preconversion” and “postconversion” works can be strictly separated in terms of their content. Rather than making an immed…
Imperial Genus
Imperial Genus
Imperial Genus
Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan’s cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human’s genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, literature, and social science. Imperial Genus focuses on how n…
Narrating and Aestheticizing Liberation in Hurrah! for Freedom and My Home Village
This article examines two films that have become canonical representations of national liberation in South Korea and North Korea: Hurrah! for Freedom (Jayu manse, Choe In-kyu, 1946) and My Home Village (Nae gohyang, Kang Hongsik, 1949). Taking the liberation period (1945-1948) as a postcolonial moment before the complete entrenchment of the Cold War system and its attendant conflicts and ideologies, it analyzes how the films look to the recent pa…
Other scenes
This essay discusses how cinematic counterpoint functions spatially in South Korean film melodrama, as well as in some North Korean productions. Drawing from canonical studies of melodrama, including Thomas Elsaesser's work, it argues that focusing on mise-en-scène and sound in readings of film melodrama can bring to light the ambivalences, or contrapuntal connections, between its moods and its narrative and thematic discourses. It understands fi…
The Perils of Comparison in Subaltern Studies and Its Critique
Colonizing Language
Reviewed by: Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea by Christina Yi Travis Workman (bio) Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea. By Christina Yi. Columbia University Press, New York, 2018. xiv, 211 pages. $65.00, cloth; $64.99, E-book. A number of scholarly publications on the Japanese empire have come out in the last two decades, expanding our und…
A minor philosophy of world
This article discusses Édouard Glissant's theory of Relation as a minor philosophy of world that breaks from the spatialization of time and the anthropological cosmopolitanism of Enlightenment thought and Cold War area studies. The first part connects two dominant Cold War area studies discourses-modernization theory and cultural anthropology-to Immanuel Kant's Anthropology and Michel Foucault's reading of it, showing how area studies discourses …
Mediating Neo-Feudalism
Cinema Under National Reconstruction
Sociology (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)