Jennifer Cho
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Cho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Cho |
| SIGNATURE | CHO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland at College Park, USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-6940-1522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Constellating Home
Failing mother
This article reflects on the feminist inheritances that have transmitted from Asian American mothers to daughters across the diaspora, while reconceiving of matrilineality as an intra- and interracial condition of political possibility. I stake out the different barriers to connection and mobilisation for Asian American women and other women of colour despite a shared lineage of experiencing state, military, institutional, and/or sexual violence …
The Kiss and the Cut
This article queries the revision of techno-Orientalist tropes in Larissa Lai's 2018 novel The Tiger Flu , focusing primarily on how Lai repossesses the figure of the Asian female clone and imagines her as a formidable site of radical feminist, decolonial, and anti-capitalist knowledge in a time of planetary erosion and pandemic. I posit that Lai breaks the lineage of techno-Orientalist formations through the survivalist impulses of the Grist Sis…
We Were Born from Beauty”
I examine how Ocean Vuong’s 2019 novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous reconceives intergenerational shame produced through processes of refugee and queer becoming and identification in the United States. I posit that the affective condition of shame is both a result of and intrinsic to the social formation of queer and refugee identities. I also trace how these identities that at times can exclude the Other also intersect in On Earth as a way of…
Mel-han-cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée
Turning to extant theories of melancholy, this article uses Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée to reevaluate the linear trajectory of Asian American identity formation in the United States. In particular, the author develops the term mel-han-choly-a hybrid form of melancholy and Korean han (a culturally specific grief)-to show how Cha uses it as a subversive political tool to defer historical closure and to refuse her quiet assimilation. Cha's rememb…
Mel-han-cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée
Turning to extant theories of melancholy, this article uses Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée to reevaluate the linear trajectory of Asian American identity formation in the United States. In particular, the author develops the term mel-han-choly-a hybrid form of melancholy and Korean han (a culturally specific grief)-to show how Cha uses it as a subversive political tool to defer historical closure and to refuse her quiet assimilation. Cha's rememb…
Mel-han-cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée
Turning to extant theories of melancholy, this article uses Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée to reevaluate the linear trajectory of Asian American identity formation in the United States. In particular, the author develops the term mel-han-choly-a hybrid form of melancholy and Korean han (a culturally specific grief)-to show how Cha uses it as a subversive political tool to defer historical closure and to refuse her quiet assimilation. Cha's rememb…
We Were Born from Beauty”
I examine how Ocean Vuong’s 2019 novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous reconceives intergenerational shame produced through processes of refugee and queer becoming and identification in the United States. I posit that the affective condition of shame is both a result of and intrinsic to the social formation of queer and refugee identities. I also trace how these identities that at times can exclude the Other also intersect in On Earth as a way of…
The Kiss and the Cut
This article queries the revision of techno-Orientalist tropes in Larissa Lai's 2018 novel The Tiger Flu , focusing primarily on how Lai repossesses the figure of the Asian female clone and imagines her as a formidable site of radical feminist, decolonial, and anti-capitalist knowledge in a time of planetary erosion and pandemic. I posit that Lai breaks the lineage of techno-Orientalist formations through the survivalist impulses of the Grist Sis…
Constellating Home
Failing mother
This article reflects on the feminist inheritances that have transmitted from Asian American mothers to daughters across the diaspora, while reconceiving of matrilineality as an intra- and interracial condition of political possibility. I stake out the different barriers to connection and mobilisation for Asian American women and other women of colour despite a shared lineage of experiencing state, military, institutional, and/or sexual violence …
Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Asian americans (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · History (2 works)