Lee-Von Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 6544651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee-Von Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Kim |
| SIGNATURE | VON KIM L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Scenes of Af/filiation
This essay considers the role of family photographs in postcolonial life writing. Focusing on memoirs by Hanif Kureishi, Michael Ondaatje and Edward Said, this essay examines how photography plays a key role in registering, and at times dramatising, the struggles of postcolonial subjects in writing about their childhoods and familial relationships. I argue that the narrativisation of photography—of taking, posing and looking at photographs—is a s…
Self-regarding
Autobiographical Revisions
In this article, the author explores the presence of photography in Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes and Claude Cahun’s Disavowals, or Cancelled Confessions. Published almost half a century apart, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes and Disavowals foreground the traffic between verbal and visual self-representation in making lives and selves visible. In both texts, photography is central to the authors’ construction of the self: not only through the…
Giving spaces/spaces of giving
While the rhetoric of border security and protection has always been present in public debates about immigration in Australia, the Tampa crisis in 2001 appears to have amplified its significance. What I propose here is a shift from the rhetoric of border protection to the rhetoric of hospitality, from the borders of nation and national identity to the borders (or limits) of hospitality. I argue that the discussions about immigration in the Austra…
Scenes of Af/filiation
This essay considers the role of family photographs in postcolonial life writing. Focusing on memoirs by Hanif Kureishi, Michael Ondaatje and Edward Said, this essay examines how photography plays a key role in registering, and at times dramatising, the struggles of postcolonial subjects in writing about their childhoods and familial relationships. I argue that the narrativisation of photography—of taking, posing and looking at photographs—is a s…
Self-regarding
Giving spaces/spaces of giving
While the rhetoric of border security and protection has always been present in public debates about immigration in Australia, the Tampa crisis in 2001 appears to have amplified its significance. What I propose here is a shift from the rhetoric of border protection to the rhetoric of hospitality, from the borders of nation and national identity to the borders (or limits) of hospitality. I argue that the discussions about immigration in the Austra…
Autobiographical Revisions
In this article, the author explores the presence of photography in Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes and Claude Cahun’s Disavowals, or Cancelled Confessions. Published almost half a century apart, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes and Disavowals foreground the traffic between verbal and visual self-representation in making lives and selves visible. In both texts, photography is central to the authors’ construction of the self: not only through the…
Scenes of Af/filiation
This essay considers the role of family photographs in postcolonial life writing. Focusing on memoirs by Hanif Kureishi, Michael Ondaatje and Edward Said, this essay examines how photography plays a key role in registering, and at times dramatising, the struggles of postcolonial subjects in writing about their childhoods and familial relationships. I argue that the narrativisation of photography—of taking, posing and looking at photographs—is a s…
Self-regarding
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · History (2 works) · Life writing (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Photography (2 works)