Belinda Kong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3859126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Belinda Kong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Belinda |
| FAMILY NAME | Kong |
| SIGNATURE | KONG B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tiananmen Fictions outside the Square
An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief. Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event that ended in local political failure to one that s…
Beyond K's Specter
This essay argues that Chang-rae Lee’s novel A Gesture Life exemplifies both the conceptual gains and the potential pitfalls of current Asian American literature’s transnationalism. The first section of the essay discusses the interlocking of psychoanalytic theory and political philosophy, specifically Freud’s uncanny and Arendt’s banality of evil, in Lee’s portrait of the psychology of criminal repression. The second section juxtaposes Lee’s nov…
Shanghai Biopolitans
Shanghai BiopolitansWartime Colonial Cosmopolis in Eileen Chang's Love in a Fallen City and J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun Belinda Kong (bio) The idea of cosmopolis evokes an excess of geography. The classical world first understood it to mean a harmonious conjunction of human society with the natural cosmos (Toulmin 67–68), but in more modern contexts, the term implies something larger than the nation, a place where multitudes move across the…
Shanghai Biopolitans
Shanghai BiopolitansWartime Colonial Cosmopolis in Eileen Chang's Love in a Fallen City and J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun Belinda Kong (bio) The idea of cosmopolis evokes an excess of geography. The classical world first understood it to mean a harmonious conjunction of human society with the natural cosmos (Toulmin 67–68), but in more modern contexts, the term implies something larger than the nation, a place where multitudes move across the…
Shanghai Biopolitans
Shanghai BiopolitansWartime Colonial Cosmopolis in Eileen Chang's Love in a Fallen City and J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun Belinda Kong (bio) The idea of cosmopolis evokes an excess of geography. The classical world first understood it to mean a harmonious conjunction of human society with the natural cosmos (Toulmin 67–68), but in more modern contexts, the term implies something larger than the nation, a place where multitudes move across the…
Beyond K's Specter
This essay argues that Chang-rae Lee’s novel A Gesture Life exemplifies both the conceptual gains and the potential pitfalls of current Asian American literature’s transnationalism. The first section of the essay discusses the interlocking of psychoanalytic theory and political philosophy, specifically Freud’s uncanny and Arendt’s banality of evil, in Lee’s portrait of the psychology of criminal repression. The second section juxtaposes Lee’s nov…
Tiananmen Fictions outside the Square
An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief. Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event that ended in local political failure to one that s…
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