Description
She Follows No Progression
A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader
Author/Editor: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha; Edited by Juwon Jun and Rachel Valinsky
CONTENTS
She Follows No Progression reflects on the plurality of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s (1951–1982) work and legacy, collecting essays, personal narratives, poems, conversations, letters and the extratextual in a reader that attests to Cha’s genre-bending vision and political imagination. The writers, artists, scholars, organizers and educators collected here, each unique in their voice and method, multiply approaches to language, colonial history, migration and time in dialogue with Cha’s unequivocally interdisciplinary practice. Their contributions traverse subjects from Asian American studies to literary history, translation, film theory and experimental poetics, while attending to the gaps between these fields and the intractable entanglements of race, class and gender that underlie them. She Follows No Progression echoes Cha’s appeal for a liberatory horizon emergent from all that we are affixed to in the present.
She Follows No Progression was published on the occasion of the 2022 program, The Quick and the Dead: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Edition. The Quick and the Dead was a yearlong, multiphase project presented by Wendy’s Subway highlighting the life, work and legacy of deceased writers by bridging their work to that of contemporary practitioners. In 2022, the program focused on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
Contributors:
Sam Cha, Marian Chudnovsky, Jesse Chun, Una Chung, Anton Haugen, Irene Hsu, Valentina Jager, Juwon Jun, Youbin Kang, Eunsong Kim, Youna Kwak, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Jennifer Gayoung Lee, Sujin Lee, Florence Li, Serubiri Moses, Jed Munson, Yves Tong Nguyen, Wirunwan Victoria Pitaktong, Brandon Shimoda, Caterina Stamou, Megan Sungyoon, Teline Trần and Soyoung Yoon.
May 2024
Softcover, 296 pages
6 x 9 inches
ISBN: 979-8-9863375-8-6
Edited by Juwon Jun and Rachel Valinsky
Foreword by Sanjana Iyer
Design by Claire Zhang
Edition of 1,500
Printed in Latvia