erin Khuê Ninh
Biographic Data
| ID | 6022204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | erin Khuê Ninh |
| GIVEN NAMES | erin Khuê |
| FAMILY NAME | Ninh |
| SIGNATURE | NINH E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | erin Khuê Ninh teaches literature in the department of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Commentary
Unwelcome Truths
13 Unwelcome TruthsOn Chinese International Students and Asian American Studies erin Khuê Ninh (bio) "These students, they cheat." "And they come late or leave early—they take phone calls during class!" "They're filthy rich, so what do they care." It was a meeting of a few UCSB faculty willing to speak to a reporter about our experiences teaching Chinese international students. This was the fall of 2018, and the idea was to take to task administr…
WeToo
WeToo:A Convening erin Khuê Ninh (bio) and Shireen Roshanravan (bio) "How I cherish this collection of cables, esoesses, conjurations and fusil missiles. Its motive force. Its gathering-us-in-ness. Its midwifery of mutually wise understandings. Its promise of autonomy and community. And its pledge of an abundant life for us all. On time. That is to say—overdue, given the times." —Toni Cade Bambara, "Foreword, 1981," This Bridge Called My Back It'…
The Mysterious Case of Suki Kim's The Interpreter
The protagonist of Suki Kim's mystery The Interpreter has been taken for a bad subject of various stripes. This article, however, proposes that readings of this novel that look not primarily at but through its execution of mystery, at a political subject whose desires are presumed to be known, will overlook the metatextual commentary of the narrative—that level that operates, precisely and exclusively, via its form. A sustained reading of protago…
The Model Minority
The heart of the issue is not whether Asian immigrant families currently meet the measures of the model minority; the issue is whether they aspire to, whether they apply those metrics. And they do. The racial ideologies, the economic infrastructures, the educational paradigms of Asianness do not circle the immigrant home like vampires, held at bay by bulbs of garlic; they are invited in to dine, made part of the nuclear family. Which is to say th…
Gold-Digger
Bharati Mukherjee's writing of Jasmine took place at the precise historical moment when the figure of the female transnational migrant laborer—the “global woman”—was born. In contrast to earlier readings of the novel's assimilationist trajectory, this article uses the present-day vantage point of advanced globalized capitalism to explore a number of decidedly non-teleological scripts concerning the work that the heroine figuratively or literally …
Advice on How Not to Misread the Tiger Mother
On the book tour circuit, Amy Chua's strategy has been to disavow just about everything her infamous Wall Street Journal article seemed to say. “I do not believe that Chinese mothers are superior,” she declared to Stephen Colbert. To PBS's Need to Know, she described the book's arc as revealing her “eventual transformation as a mother,” while, to Good Morning America, she insisted that she believes “people get to great places so many different wa…
Forwarding Memory through Diaporama
It is true that in my memories of my childhood home—ranchstyle in West Los Angeles, with dark wood panels in the den and ceramic tiles in the kitchen—my parents’ music plays on the stereo: sounds of Sai Gon in the seventies, of Việt Nam in their own childhoods. I remember thining even then, that it is their music which evokes to me my parents' world, and that when they and their generation are gone, it is the songs that will remain for us to conj…
WeToo
WeToo:A Convening erin Khuê Ninh (bio) and Shireen Roshanravan (bio) "How I cherish this collection of cables, esoesses, conjurations and fusil missiles. Its motive force. Its gathering-us-in-ness. Its midwifery of mutually wise understandings. Its promise of autonomy and community. And its pledge of an abundant life for us all. On time. That is to say—overdue, given the times." —Toni Cade Bambara, "Foreword, 1981," This Bridge Called My Back It'…
Forwarding Memory through Diaporama
It is true that in my memories of my childhood home—ranchstyle in West Los Angeles, with dark wood panels in the den and ceramic tiles in the kitchen—my parents’ music plays on the stereo: sounds of Sai Gon in the seventies, of Việt Nam in their own childhoods. I remember thining even then, that it is their music which evokes to me my parents' world, and that when they and their generation are gone, it is the songs that will remain for us to conj…
Forwarding Memory through Diaporama
It is true that in my memories of my childhood home—ranchstyle in West Los Angeles, with dark wood panels in the den and ceramic tiles in the kitchen—my parents’ music plays on the stereo: sounds of Sai Gon in the seventies, of Việt Nam in their own childhoods. I remember thining even then, that it is their music which evokes to me my parents' world, and that when they and their generation are gone, it is the songs that will remain for us to conj…
Advice on How Not to Misread the Tiger Mother
On the book tour circuit, Amy Chua's strategy has been to disavow just about everything her infamous Wall Street Journal article seemed to say. “I do not believe that Chinese mothers are superior,” she declared to Stephen Colbert. To PBS's Need to Know, she described the book's arc as revealing her “eventual transformation as a mother,” while, to Good Morning America, she insisted that she believes “people get to great places so many different wa…
Gold-Digger
Bharati Mukherjee's writing of Jasmine took place at the precise historical moment when the figure of the female transnational migrant laborer—the “global woman”—was born. In contrast to earlier readings of the novel's assimilationist trajectory, this article uses the present-day vantage point of advanced globalized capitalism to explore a number of decidedly non-teleological scripts concerning the work that the heroine figuratively or literally …
The Model Minority
The heart of the issue is not whether Asian immigrant families currently meet the measures of the model minority; the issue is whether they aspire to, whether they apply those metrics. And they do. The racial ideologies, the economic infrastructures, the educational paradigms of Asianness do not circle the immigrant home like vampires, held at bay by bulbs of garlic; they are invited in to dine, made part of the nuclear family. Which is to say th…
The Mysterious Case of Suki Kim's The Interpreter
The protagonist of Suki Kim's mystery The Interpreter has been taken for a bad subject of various stripes. This article, however, proposes that readings of this novel that look not primarily at but through its execution of mystery, at a political subject whose desires are presumed to be known, will overlook the metatextual commentary of the narrative—that level that operates, precisely and exclusively, via its form. A sustained reading of protago…
WeToo
WeToo:A Convening erin Khuê Ninh (bio) and Shireen Roshanravan (bio) "How I cherish this collection of cables, esoesses, conjurations and fusil missiles. Its motive force. Its gathering-us-in-ness. Its midwifery of mutually wise understandings. Its promise of autonomy and community. And its pledge of an abundant life for us all. On time. That is to say—overdue, given the times." —Toni Cade Bambara, "Foreword, 1981," This Bridge Called My Back It'…
Unwelcome Truths
13 Unwelcome TruthsOn Chinese International Students and Asian American Studies erin Khuê Ninh (bio) "These students, they cheat." "And they come late or leave early—they take phone calls during class!" "They're filthy rich, so what do they care." It was a meeting of a few UCSB faculty willing to speak to a reporter about our experiences teaching Chinese international students. This was the fall of 2018, and the idea was to take to task administr…
Commentary
Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works)