Stella Oh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3859496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stella Oh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stella |
| FAMILY NAME | Oh |
| SIGNATURE | OH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola Marymount University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8649-4472 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In the gutters of grief and shame
This essay explores the haunting shadows of coloniality through the lens of shame and grief. Highlighting the graphic novel Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, I trace the diasporic linkages between gendered violence, colonial amnesia, and the patriarchal silencing of the stories of ‘comfort women.’ I argue that the search for legibility and homecoming trouble shame, grief, and memory. Shame and the female body play a central role in the narrative and …
Birthing a Graphic Archive of Memory
The Vietnam War is the topic of books, comics, documentaries, films, and television shows. Contrary to popular filmic and literary representations of the Vietnam War, which feature violence and militant hypermasculinity, Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (2017) weaves a tapestry of stories about the Vietnam War through memories of her family members. Rather than reiterating a shibboleth of masculine struggle and American excep…
Paradoxes of Citizenship
Ethical Spectatorship in Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings
This essay looks at the ways in which the burgeoning field of graphic novels contributes to the dialogue of visuality and ethics. Specifically I explore how the comic architecture of Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings provides opportunities to rethink the ways in which one sees and is seen through surveillance
Comical in Spite of the Misery”
This essay presents new research on Mine Okubo's Citizen 13660, focusing on the subversive use of humor in the graphic narrative about Japanese American internment
Distance, Desire, and “Diseuse”
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee conceptualizes a diasporic mode of identification in which there simultaneously exists nostalgic desire for home and the difficulty involved in this. In this essay, I examine the critically conscious processes of (dis)identifications which Cha engages in throughout her work. The tensions and ironies between the desire for and lack of identification serve to destabilize histories of violence, colonization, and imperi…
Birthing a Graphic Archive of Memory
The Vietnam War is the topic of books, comics, documentaries, films, and television shows. Contrary to popular filmic and literary representations of the Vietnam War, which feature violence and militant hypermasculinity, Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (2017) weaves a tapestry of stories about the Vietnam War through memories of her family members. Rather than reiterating a shibboleth of masculine struggle and American excep…
Distance, Desire, and “Diseuse”
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee conceptualizes a diasporic mode of identification in which there simultaneously exists nostalgic desire for home and the difficulty involved in this. In this essay, I examine the critically conscious processes of (dis)identifications which Cha engages in throughout her work. The tensions and ironies between the desire for and lack of identification serve to destabilize histories of violence, colonization, and imperi…
Distance, Desire, and “Diseuse”
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee conceptualizes a diasporic mode of identification in which there simultaneously exists nostalgic desire for home and the difficulty involved in this. In this essay, I examine the critically conscious processes of (dis)identifications which Cha engages in throughout her work. The tensions and ironies between the desire for and lack of identification serve to destabilize histories of violence, colonization, and imperi…
Comical in Spite of the Misery”
This essay presents new research on Mine Okubo's Citizen 13660, focusing on the subversive use of humor in the graphic narrative about Japanese American internment
Ethical Spectatorship in Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings
This essay looks at the ways in which the burgeoning field of graphic novels contributes to the dialogue of visuality and ethics. Specifically I explore how the comic architecture of Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings provides opportunities to rethink the ways in which one sees and is seen through surveillance
Paradoxes of Citizenship
Birthing a Graphic Archive of Memory
The Vietnam War is the topic of books, comics, documentaries, films, and television shows. Contrary to popular filmic and literary representations of the Vietnam War, which feature violence and militant hypermasculinity, Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (2017) weaves a tapestry of stories about the Vietnam War through memories of her family members. Rather than reiterating a shibboleth of masculine struggle and American excep…
In the gutters of grief and shame
This essay explores the haunting shadows of coloniality through the lens of shame and grief. Highlighting the graphic novel Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, I trace the diasporic linkages between gendered violence, colonial amnesia, and the patriarchal silencing of the stories of ‘comfort women.’ I argue that the search for legibility and homecoming trouble shame, grief, and memory. Shame and the female body play a central role in the narrative and …
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Comics (2 works)