Steven S Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven S Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Minor Transpacific
Near the end of this pathbreaking book, we learn the origin story of Min Jin Lee’s puzzlingly successful novel Pachinko (2017). As a Korean American undergraduate at Yale, accustomed to regarding Korean minorities as upwardly mobile, she was surprised to learn that the resident Koreans of Japan, known as the Zainichi (meaning “residing in Japan”), occupied the bottom rungs of that country’s socioeconomic ladder. The gap between these two branches…
Deterritorialized Nationality
This article uses Alexei Yurchak's account of late socialist performance and the deterritorialization of authoritative discourses to discuss the half-Korean identity of Viktor Tsoi, the most prominent rock start emerging from the perestroika period. It uses representations and perceptions of Tsoi from the 1980s to argue that in this period, it was possible to perform the nationalities listed in each Soviet citizen's passport, as well as official …
Comintern Aesthetics
Harlem via Mexico-Uzbekistan
Research Article| March 01 2015 Harlem via Mexico-Uzbekistan: Race and Sex from the Peripheries of Revolution Steven S. Lee Steven S. Lee University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Steven S. Lee is an associate professor in the Department of English at UC Berkeley, where he is also an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Korean Studies and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. His first book, The Ethn…
P luralist U niversalism
Borat, Multiculturalism,Mnogonatsional'nost
In this article, Sacha Baron Cohen'sBoratappears as just the latest in a decades- long exchange between American and Soviet models of minority uplift: on the one side, civil rights and multiculturalism; on the other,druzhba narodov(the friendship of peoples) andmnogonatsional'nost'(multi-national- ness). Steven S. Lee argues diat, with Borat, multiculturalism seems to have emerged as the victor in this exchange, but that the film also hearkens to…
Deterritorialized Nationality
This article uses Alexei Yurchak's account of late socialist performance and the deterritorialization of authoritative discourses to discuss the half-Korean identity of Viktor Tsoi, the most prominent rock start emerging from the perestroika period. It uses representations and perceptions of Tsoi from the 1980s to argue that in this period, it was possible to perform the nationalities listed in each Soviet citizen's passport, as well as official …
Borat, Multiculturalism,Mnogonatsional'nost
In this article, Sacha Baron Cohen'sBoratappears as just the latest in a decades- long exchange between American and Soviet models of minority uplift: on the one side, civil rights and multiculturalism; on the other,druzhba narodov(the friendship of peoples) andmnogonatsional'nost'(multi-national- ness). Steven S. Lee argues diat, with Borat, multiculturalism seems to have emerged as the victor in this exchange, but that the film also hearkens to…
Borat, Multiculturalism,Mnogonatsional'nost
In this article, Sacha Baron Cohen'sBoratappears as just the latest in a decades- long exchange between American and Soviet models of minority uplift: on the one side, civil rights and multiculturalism; on the other,druzhba narodov(the friendship of peoples) andmnogonatsional'nost'(multi-national- ness). Steven S. Lee argues diat, with Borat, multiculturalism seems to have emerged as the victor in this exchange, but that the film also hearkens to…
P luralist U niversalism
Harlem via Mexico-Uzbekistan
Research Article| March 01 2015 Harlem via Mexico-Uzbekistan: Race and Sex from the Peripheries of Revolution Steven S. Lee Steven S. Lee University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Steven S. Lee is an associate professor in the Department of English at UC Berkeley, where he is also an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Korean Studies and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. His first book, The Ethn…
Comintern Aesthetics
Deterritorialized Nationality
This article uses Alexei Yurchak's account of late socialist performance and the deterritorialization of authoritative discourses to discuss the half-Korean identity of Viktor Tsoi, the most prominent rock start emerging from the perestroika period. It uses representations and perceptions of Tsoi from the 1980s to argue that in this period, it was possible to perform the nationalities listed in each Soviet citizen's passport, as well as official …
Minor Transpacific
Near the end of this pathbreaking book, we learn the origin story of Min Jin Lee’s puzzlingly successful novel Pachinko (2017). As a Korean American undergraduate at Yale, accustomed to regarding Korean minorities as upwardly mobile, she was surprised to learn that the resident Koreans of Japan, known as the Zainichi (meaning “residing in Japan”), occupied the bottom rungs of that country’s socioeconomic ladder. The gap between these two branches…
History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Friendship (2 works)