Publications [#338390] of Nayoung A. Kwon

Papers Published

1. Kwon, NA, Japanophone Literature? A Transpacific Query on Absence, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 64 no. 3 (2018), pp. 537-558, Johns Hopkins University Press [doi] .
   (last updated on 2026/01/16)

   Abstract:
   This essay inquires into the significance of the absent category of Japanophone literature in light of the recent rise of a global discourse on Sinophone literature and other postcolonial critical genealogies. This discussion of broader postcolonial taxonomies sets the stage for an investigation into the position of Japan as a minor empire in relation to its European counterparts. The precarious location among divided literary fields of colonial Korean writers, such as Kim Saryang, provides a segue into linking contested postcolonial and cold war legacies in the Asia-Pacific.