Sunhay You
Biographic Data
| ID | 3990599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sunhay You |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sunhay |
| FAMILY NAME | You |
| SIGNATURE | YOU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhode Island School of Design |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0241-0858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Aesthetic Inheritance
This article elaborates on aesthetic inheritance as a category of analysis that can productively guide critical interpretations of contemporary artworks that explicitly and implicitly address Asian American histories and the Asian American subjectivities of artists. It refers to aesthetics as a web of inherited sensibilities, which, in their mundane and ordinary manifestations, contend with hegemonic ways of seeing and viewing beauty. Offering cl…
Anti-Colonial Dreams and Their Resonant Afterlives
In 2016, Han Kang's English translated novel The Vegetarian won the International Man Booker Prize. As the first South Korean novel to win the award, the event marked a momentous occasion. At the same time, the novel's anti-colonial narrative stood in stark contrast to the award's namesake-James Man, the founder of a British sugar cooperative in 1783. The colonial roots of the award arguably undermined the novel's anti-colonial politics. Countera…
The Sweetness of Race
“The Sweetness of Race” examines the sensorial effects of lexical-gustatory synesthesia in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth (2010). In this documentation of how words taste, whiteness becomes associated with the taste of sugar and its addictive properties. Throughout the novel, whiteness becomes legible as an object of addiction that defends against the failed ideals of self-possessed human personhood—a cornerstone to white supremacy. The nov…
Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
Reviewed by: Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho Sunhay You (bio) Tastes Like War, by Grace M. Cho. New York: Feminist Press, 2021, 296 pp. ISBN: 9781952177941. An “unintended sequel” to Haunting the Korean Diaspora, Grace Cho’s memoir, Tastes Like War, engages in a sociological mode of storytelling (6). Her voice is familiar, evoking the autoethnographic portions of her first book: an “experimental writing voice . . . intended to show the mixing up …
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Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho
Reviewed by: Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho Sunhay You (bio) Tastes Like War, by Grace M. Cho. New York: Feminist Press, 2021, 296 pp. ISBN: 9781952177941. An “unintended sequel” to Haunting the Korean Diaspora, Grace Cho’s memoir, Tastes Like War, engages in a sociological mode of storytelling (6). Her voice is familiar, evoking the autoethnographic portions of her first book: an “experimental writing voice . . . intended to show the mixing up …
The Sweetness of Race
“The Sweetness of Race” examines the sensorial effects of lexical-gustatory synesthesia in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth (2010). In this documentation of how words taste, whiteness becomes associated with the taste of sugar and its addictive properties. Throughout the novel, whiteness becomes legible as an object of addiction that defends against the failed ideals of self-possessed human personhood—a cornerstone to white supremacy. The nov…
Anti-Colonial Dreams and Their Resonant Afterlives
In 2016, Han Kang's English translated novel The Vegetarian won the International Man Booker Prize. As the first South Korean novel to win the award, the event marked a momentous occasion. At the same time, the novel's anti-colonial narrative stood in stark contrast to the award's namesake-James Man, the founder of a British sugar cooperative in 1783. The colonial roots of the award arguably undermined the novel's anti-colonial politics. Countera…
Aesthetic Inheritance
This article elaborates on aesthetic inheritance as a category of analysis that can productively guide critical interpretations of contemporary artworks that explicitly and implicitly address Asian American histories and the Asian American subjectivities of artists. It refers to aesthetics as a web of inherited sensibilities, which, in their mundane and ordinary manifestations, contend with hegemonic ways of seeing and viewing beauty. Offering cl…
Art (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ambiguity (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art Education and Development (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work) · Asian americans (1 work)