Nayoung Aimee Kwon
Title
Nayoung Aimee Kwon
Rights
Image used with permission, all rights remain with the author. Photograph credit to Jacquelyn Kwon.
Birthplace
Korea
Primary Sources
Kwon, N. A. (2023). Pluralizing Passing and Transpacific Afro-Asian Solidarities: Passings and Impasses Across Colonial Korea and the Segregated U.S. In Yi, C., Haag., A., and Ryu., C., (Eds.,). Passing, Posing, Persuasion Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empire. University of Hawaii Press.
Kwon, N. A. (2022). Millennial Vengeance: Park Chan-wook’s Agassi (The Handmaiden) and the Return of Postcolonial Japonisme. In Kwon, N. A., Odagiri. T., and Baek, M. (Eds.). Theorizing Colonial Cinema Reframing Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Film in Asia. Indiana University Press.
Kwon, N. A. (2022). A Minor Modernist's Conundrum Of Representation: Kim Saryang and the Colonized I-Novel. In Cho, H. (Ed.) The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature (pp. 245–256). New York: Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429328411-25
Kwon, N. A. Odagiri, T. and Baek, M.(2021). (Ed.) Theorizing Colonial Cinema: Reframing Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Film in Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Kwon, N. A. (2019). Spring in the Korean Peninsula (1941): Transcolonial Mise en Abyme. In Rediscovering Korean Cinema (pp. 80–94).
Kwon, N. A. (2018). Japanophone literature? A transpacific query on absence. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 64(3), 537–558.
https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2018.0041
Kwon, N.A. (2015). Intimate empire: Collaboration and colonial modernity in Korea and Japan. Duke University Press.
Kwon, N.A. (2013). Collaboration, coproduction, and code-switching: Colonial cinema and postcolonial archaeology. Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 2(1), 10–40.
https://doi.org/10.1353/ach.2013.0002
Kwon, N. A. (2022). Millennial Vengeance: Park Chan-wook’s Agassi (The Handmaiden) and the Return of Postcolonial Japonisme. In Kwon, N. A., Odagiri. T., and Baek, M. (Eds.). Theorizing Colonial Cinema Reframing Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Film in Asia. Indiana University Press.
Kwon, N. A. (2022). A Minor Modernist's Conundrum Of Representation: Kim Saryang and the Colonized I-Novel. In Cho, H. (Ed.) The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature (pp. 245–256). New York: Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429328411-25
Kwon, N. A. Odagiri, T. and Baek, M.(2021). (Ed.) Theorizing Colonial Cinema: Reframing Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Film in Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Kwon, N. A. (2019). Spring in the Korean Peninsula (1941): Transcolonial Mise en Abyme. In Rediscovering Korean Cinema (pp. 80–94).
Kwon, N. A. (2018). Japanophone literature? A transpacific query on absence. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 64(3), 537–558.
https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2018.0041
Kwon, N.A. (2015). Intimate empire: Collaboration and colonial modernity in Korea and Japan. Duke University Press.
Kwon, N.A. (2013). Collaboration, coproduction, and code-switching: Colonial cinema and postcolonial archaeology. Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 2(1), 10–40.
https://doi.org/10.1353/ach.2013.0002
Secondary Sources
Dudden, A. (2017). Review of intimate empire: Collaboration and colonial modernity in Korea and Japan. The American Historical Review, 122(1), 141–143.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26576549
Fujitani, T., & Kwon, N.A. (2012). Introduction to "transcolonial film coproductions in the Japanese Empire". Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 1(5), 1–8.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sn4w89c
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26576549
Fujitani, T., & Kwon, N.A. (2012). Introduction to "transcolonial film coproductions in the Japanese Empire". Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 1(5), 1–8.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3sn4w89c
Extra Resources
Duke Today Staff. (2021, October 29). Korean film goes global. Duke Today. Accessed Sept 2, 2022.
https://today.duke.edu/2021/10/korean-film-goes-global
https://today.duke.edu/2021/10/korean-film-goes-global
hong an truong, Nayoung Aimee Kwon and Guo-Juin Hong (2013) What/Where is "Decolonial Asia"? July 15, Social Text, Acessed Mar 10 2023 https://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_article/whatwhere-is-decolonial-asia/
Collection
Citation
“Nayoung Aimee Kwon,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/274.