Nayoung Aimee Kwon

Title

Nayoung Aimee Kwon

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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

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

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

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/

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“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.

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