Frances Tran
Biographic Data
| ID | 780698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Tran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances |
| FAMILY NAME | Tran |
| SIGNATURE | TRAN F |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3735-9872 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Preparing to See Hope: On the Utopic Potentiality of the Stories We Share
Preparing to See Hope: On the Utopic Potentiality of the Stories We Share Frances Tran (bio) Dear Cathy, I framed my response to your presidential address as a letter in hopes that this intimate form will find you and others in the vein of the words you cite from Audre Lorde, “the personal as political.” Writing to you in this way allows me to aspire after the intimacy denied by the virtual 2021 ASA conference, to imagine what it would have been …
Time Traveling with Care: On Female Coolies and Archival Speculations
Archives, as both institutional and epistemological formations, are intimately associated with mastery, entangled in legacies of colonialism and efforts to document the past and manage bodies. This essay takes up the science fictional trope of time travel to posit a mode of critical engagement that disorganizes the hegemonic time-space of the archive. It thinks alongside Charles Yu's conception of time travel in How to Live Safely in a Science Fi…
How To Live Unsafely: Toward a Better Good Life for Asian American Studies
This essay contemplates the current state and stakes of Asian American studies in a “postracial” era by thinking alongside Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. A novel that transports readers to a “minor” world and follows the journey of an unheroic protagonist through a time loop, Yu’s work presses us to confront the future as a deeply compromised time-space. The novel’s invitation to reflect on temporality and the ma…
Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds by Stephen Hong Sohn (review)
Reviewed by: Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds by Stephen Hong Sohn Frances Tran (bio) Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds, by Stephen Hong Sohn. New York: New York University Press, 2014. Ix + 288 pp. $25.00 paper. ISBN: 978-1-4798-0027-8. Stephen Sohn’s Racial Asymmetries provides a timely intervention in discourses on what coheres the category of Asian American literature. It functions in conversation with the…
Time Traveling with Care: On Female Coolies and Archival Speculations
Archives, as both institutional and epistemological formations, are intimately associated with mastery, entangled in legacies of colonialism and efforts to document the past and manage bodies. This essay takes up the science fictional trope of time travel to posit a mode of critical engagement that disorganizes the hegemonic time-space of the archive. It thinks alongside Charles Yu's conception of time travel in How to Live Safely in a Science Fi…
How To Live Unsafely: Toward a Better Good Life for Asian American Studies
This essay contemplates the current state and stakes of Asian American studies in a “postracial” era by thinking alongside Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. A novel that transports readers to a “minor” world and follows the journey of an unheroic protagonist through a time loop, Yu’s work presses us to confront the future as a deeply compromised time-space. The novel’s invitation to reflect on temporality and the ma…
Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds by Stephen Hong Sohn (review)
Reviewed by: Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds by Stephen Hong Sohn Frances Tran (bio) Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds, by Stephen Hong Sohn. New York: New York University Press, 2014. Ix + 288 pp. $25.00 paper. ISBN: 978-1-4798-0027-8. Stephen Sohn’s Racial Asymmetries provides a timely intervention in discourses on what coheres the category of Asian American literature. It functions in conversation with the…
How To Live Unsafely: Toward a Better Good Life for Asian American Studies
This essay contemplates the current state and stakes of Asian American studies in a “postracial” era by thinking alongside Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. A novel that transports readers to a “minor” world and follows the journey of an unheroic protagonist through a time loop, Yu’s work presses us to confront the future as a deeply compromised time-space. The novel’s invitation to reflect on temporality and the ma…
Time Traveling with Care: On Female Coolies and Archival Speculations
Archives, as both institutional and epistemological formations, are intimately associated with mastery, entangled in legacies of colonialism and efforts to document the past and manage bodies. This essay takes up the science fictional trope of time travel to posit a mode of critical engagement that disorganizes the hegemonic time-space of the archive. It thinks alongside Charles Yu's conception of time travel in How to Live Safely in a Science Fi…
Preparing to See Hope: On the Utopic Potentiality of the Stories We Share
Preparing to See Hope: On the Utopic Potentiality of the Stories We Share Frances Tran (bio) Dear Cathy, I framed my response to your presidential address as a letter in hopes that this intimate form will find you and others in the vein of the words you cite from Audre Lorde, “the personal as political.” Writing to you in this way allows me to aspire after the intimacy denied by the virtual 2021 ASA conference, to imagine what it would have been …
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)