Jini Kim Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 642376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jini Kim Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jini Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three …
Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
Writing the Manichean City from Colonial to Global Metropolis
Using Frantz Fanon’s depiction of the colonial city in The Wretched of the Earth (1961) as a starting point, this chapter argues that the very disjunctiveness of Manichean colonial urban forms is key for perceiving, analysing, and indicting the colonial system, as well as for imagining paths for decolonization. Moreover, understanding the city as a site of contestation and anticolonial desires allows us to rethink the role of the urban in world l…
Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization
Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization
The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present
This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to think with postcolonial theory about political contemporaneity. Many of the most influential …
The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present
Post-colonial studies
This chapter sketches out some of the ways the field has approached questions of space, territories, regions, and boundaries. It includes Edward Said’s imaginative geographies, colonial urbanism, hybrid ‘third spaces’, global ‘scapes’, and, finally, the Global South. The chapter traces the ways post-colonial theory has conceived of and critiqued the world’s spaces and regions in relation to imperialism, anti-colonialism, nationalism, diaspora, an…
Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present
Postscript: On Transpacific Futurities
PostscriptOn Transpacific Futurities Jini Kim Watson (bio) In 2001, just weeks before 9/11, a poorly equipped fishing boat, attempting to make the treacherous crossing from Indonesia to Australia, sank with its 433 passengers. A passing Norwegian container ship rescued the mostly Afghan refugees and, overburdened with sick and injured people, headed to the closest Australian port at tiny Christmas Island. The Australian government led by then–Pri…
Aspirational City: Desiring Singapore and the Films of Tan Pin Pin
Since its dramatic metamorphosis from British colonial port to gleaming ‘world class city’, Singapore has become an object of imitative desire for cities around the world, and has even begun exporting its urban planning techniques to countries such as China, Brazil, the UAE and Rwanda. This essay considers some of the implications of Singapore's ascendance to position of aspirational city for the Global South. I begin by reflecting on the distinc…
A Not-yet-postcolonial Peninsula: Rewriting Spaces of Violence, Division and Diaspora
In his controversial 2001 novel, The Guest ( Sonnim ), Hwang Sok-yong tells the story of elderly Korean American Ryu Yosŏp, who embarks on a journey back to his childhood home in Hwanghae province, now North Korea. At once a spatial, temporal, and psychological return, the novel revisits the early years of the Korean War to unveil the truth behind one of the war’s most horrific crimes: the slaughter of 35,000 Korean civilians in the Shinch’on mas…
Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans)Nationalism, Social Change
Narrating Race is a welcome collection of diverse essays from scholars of Asia-Pacific literature and culture, especially those working within a postcolonial, transnational, or diasporic perspective. Edited by Robbie B. H. Goh, the volume of fourteen essays originated from a 2006 conference at the National University of Singapore on “Narrating Race Between Nationalism and Globalization.” Topics range from the literature of the Eurasian community …
New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form
The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form
Under Jini Kim, this book’s scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political works, and juxtaposing close readings of the built environment, the book demonstrates how processes of migration and construction in the hypergrowth urbanscapes of the Pacific Rim crystallize the psychic and political dramas of their c…
Seoul and Singapore as “New Asian Cities”: Literature, Urban Transformation, and the Concentricity of Power
This article examines literature from Korea and Singapore during the decades of rapid industrial and urban expansion following World War II. Using the concept of the “New Asian City,” the author argues that the growth of the cities behind these apparent “miracle economies” needs to be understood in terms of postcoloniality, that is, a complex relation between the colonial histories of Japan and England, domestic authoritarianism, and the producti…
Books
The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form
Orphans Of Asia: Modernity And Colonial Literature
Books
Imperial mimicry, modernisation theory and the contradictions of postcolonial South Korea1
The world has become a smaller place, forcing people in all corners of the earth to compete with each other. (Pak Unshik, 1906) Compared with the European empires, Japan was without doubt a latecom
Imperial mimicry, modernisation theory and the contradictions of postcolonial South Korea1
The world has become a smaller place, forcing people in all corners of the earth to compete with each other. (Pak Unshik, 1906) Compared with the European empires, Japan was without doubt a latecom
Seoul and Singapore as “New Asian Cities”: Literature, Urban Transformation, and the Concentricity of Power
This article examines literature from Korea and Singapore during the decades of rapid industrial and urban expansion following World War II. Using the concept of the “New Asian City,” the author argues that the growth of the cities behind these apparent “miracle economies” needs to be understood in terms of postcoloniality, that is, a complex relation between the colonial histories of Japan and England, domestic authoritarianism, and the producti…
A Not-yet-postcolonial Peninsula: Rewriting Spaces of Violence, Division and Diaspora
In his controversial 2001 novel, The Guest ( Sonnim ), Hwang Sok-yong tells the story of elderly Korean American Ryu Yosŏp, who embarks on a journey back to his childhood home in Hwanghae province, now North Korea. At once a spatial, temporal, and psychological return, the novel revisits the early years of the Korean War to unveil the truth behind one of the war’s most horrific crimes: the slaughter of 35,000 Korean civilians in the Shinch’on mas…
Imperial mimicry, modernisation theory and the contradictions of postcolonial South Korea1
The world has become a smaller place, forcing people in all corners of the earth to compete with each other. (Pak Unshik, 1906) Compared with the European empires, Japan was without doubt a latecom
Books
The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form
Orphans Of Asia: Modernity And Colonial Literature
New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form
The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form
Under Jini Kim, this book’s scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political works, and juxtaposing close readings of the built environment, the book demonstrates how processes of migration and construction in the hypergrowth urbanscapes of the Pacific Rim crystallize the psychic and political dramas of their c…
Seoul and Singapore as “New Asian Cities”: Literature, Urban Transformation, and the Concentricity of Power
This article examines literature from Korea and Singapore during the decades of rapid industrial and urban expansion following World War II. Using the concept of the “New Asian City,” the author argues that the growth of the cities behind these apparent “miracle economies” needs to be understood in terms of postcoloniality, that is, a complex relation between the colonial histories of Japan and England, domestic authoritarianism, and the producti…
Books
A Not-yet-postcolonial Peninsula: Rewriting Spaces of Violence, Division and Diaspora
In his controversial 2001 novel, The Guest ( Sonnim ), Hwang Sok-yong tells the story of elderly Korean American Ryu Yosŏp, who embarks on a journey back to his childhood home in Hwanghae province, now North Korea. At once a spatial, temporal, and psychological return, the novel revisits the early years of the Korean War to unveil the truth behind one of the war’s most horrific crimes: the slaughter of 35,000 Korean civilians in the Shinch’on mas…
Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans)Nationalism, Social Change
Narrating Race is a welcome collection of diverse essays from scholars of Asia-Pacific literature and culture, especially those working within a postcolonial, transnational, or diasporic perspective. Edited by Robbie B. H. Goh, the volume of fourteen essays originated from a 2006 conference at the National University of Singapore on “Narrating Race Between Nationalism and Globalization.” Topics range from the literature of the Eurasian community …
Aspirational City: Desiring Singapore and the Films of Tan Pin Pin
Since its dramatic metamorphosis from British colonial port to gleaming ‘world class city’, Singapore has become an object of imitative desire for cities around the world, and has even begun exporting its urban planning techniques to countries such as China, Brazil, the UAE and Rwanda. This essay considers some of the implications of Singapore's ascendance to position of aspirational city for the Global South. I begin by reflecting on the distinc…
Postscript: On Transpacific Futurities
PostscriptOn Transpacific Futurities Jini Kim Watson (bio) In 2001, just weeks before 9/11, a poorly equipped fishing boat, attempting to make the treacherous crossing from Indonesia to Australia, sank with its 433 passengers. A passing Norwegian container ship rescued the mostly Afghan refugees and, overburdened with sick and injured people, headed to the closest Australian port at tiny Christmas Island. The Australian government led by then–Pri…
The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present
This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to think with postcolonial theory about political contemporaneity. Many of the most influential …
The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present
Post-colonial studies
This chapter sketches out some of the ways the field has approached questions of space, territories, regions, and boundaries. It includes Edward Said’s imaginative geographies, colonial urbanism, hybrid ‘third spaces’, global ‘scapes’, and, finally, the Global South. The chapter traces the ways post-colonial theory has conceived of and critiqued the world’s spaces and regions in relation to imperialism, anti-colonialism, nationalism, diaspora, an…
Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present
Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization
Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization
The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three …
Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
Writing the Manichean City from Colonial to Global Metropolis
Using Frantz Fanon’s depiction of the colonial city in The Wretched of the Earth (1961) as a starting point, this chapter argues that the very disjunctiveness of Manichean colonial urban forms is key for perceiving, analysing, and indicting the colonial system, as well as for imagining paths for decolonization. Moreover, understanding the city as a site of contestation and anticolonial desires allows us to rethink the role of the urban in world l…
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