Jenny Heijun Wills
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Heijun Wills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny Heijun |
| FAMILY NAME | Wills |
| SIGNATURE | WILLS J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
(Don’t) hold my hand: Narratives of adoption and refusals in Lamb
Subjects with a Grimms' fairy tale, 'The Willful Child', in which a disobedient child is left to die by her mother, only to be buried with one of her arms sticking out of the ground, refusing to bend.The arm is then beaten with a rod by the mother to force it back beneath the ground.Using this story as metaphor, Ahmed theorizes wilfulness as 'a diagnosis of the failure to comply with those whose authority is given'. 1 In such a scenario, unhappin…
Paradoxical Essentialism: Reading Race and Origins in Jane Jeong Trenka’s Asian Adoption Memoirs
I argue that anti-essentialism assumes a neutral or default subject for whom biology and origins are both coherent and reliable. Analyzing Jane Jeong Trenka’s two adoption memoirs, The Language of Blood and Fugitive Visions, I argue that anti-essentialism is a privileged posture not afforded to everyone
Culinary Culture in Asian/North American Coming-of-Age Literature
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Scripted Violence, Scripted Deferral: Pre– and Post–Civil Rights Racial Innocence
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
I’s Wide Shut: Examining the Depiction of Female Refugees’ Eyes and Hands in Stephen Frears’s Dirty Pretty Things
In 2002, Stephen Frears directed Dirty Pretty Things – one of the few mainstream fictional films to highlight the effects of exile, the complexities of refugee status, and the trials of migrant labour in the “Western” world. Thus far, the minimal number of “refugee” films produced is mirrored by the minimal discussion about those films (or their absence). This essay examines Frears’s film with a critical lens that incorporates both theoretical ev…
Community Alliances and the New Governance
Paradoxical Essentialism: Reading Race and Origins in Jane Jeong Trenka’s Asian Adoption Memoirs
I argue that anti-essentialism assumes a neutral or default subject for whom biology and origins are both coherent and reliable. Analyzing Jane Jeong Trenka’s two adoption memoirs, The Language of Blood and Fugitive Visions, I argue that anti-essentialism is a privileged posture not afforded to everyone
I’s Wide Shut: Examining the Depiction of Female Refugees’ Eyes and Hands in Stephen Frears’s Dirty Pretty Things
In 2002, Stephen Frears directed Dirty Pretty Things – one of the few mainstream fictional films to highlight the effects of exile, the complexities of refugee status, and the trials of migrant labour in the “Western” world. Thus far, the minimal number of “refugee” films produced is mirrored by the minimal discussion about those films (or their absence). This essay examines Frears’s film with a critical lens that incorporates both theoretical ev…
Community Alliances and the New Governance
Community Alliances and the New Governance
I’s Wide Shut: Examining the Depiction of Female Refugees’ Eyes and Hands in Stephen Frears’s Dirty Pretty Things
In 2002, Stephen Frears directed Dirty Pretty Things – one of the few mainstream fictional films to highlight the effects of exile, the complexities of refugee status, and the trials of migrant labour in the “Western” world. Thus far, the minimal number of “refugee” films produced is mirrored by the minimal discussion about those films (or their absence). This essay examines Frears’s film with a critical lens that incorporates both theoretical ev…
Scripted Violence, Scripted Deferral: Pre– and Post–Civil Rights Racial Innocence
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Culinary Culture in Asian/North American Coming-of-Age Literature
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Paradoxical Essentialism: Reading Race and Origins in Jane Jeong Trenka’s Asian Adoption Memoirs
I argue that anti-essentialism assumes a neutral or default subject for whom biology and origins are both coherent and reliable. Analyzing Jane Jeong Trenka’s two adoption memoirs, The Language of Blood and Fugitive Visions, I argue that anti-essentialism is a privileged posture not afforded to everyone
(Don’t) hold my hand: Narratives of adoption and refusals in Lamb
Subjects with a Grimms' fairy tale, 'The Willful Child', in which a disobedient child is left to die by her mother, only to be buried with one of her arms sticking out of the ground, refusing to bend.The arm is then beaten with a rod by the mother to force it back beneath the ground.Using this story as metaphor, Ahmed theorizes wilfulness as 'a diagnosis of the failure to comply with those whose authority is given'. 1 In such a scenario, unhappin…
Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works)