Towards a More Inclusive Memory: Vexed Returns and Just Memory in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees

Nami Shin(Nami Shin) 한국아메리카학회 2023 美國學論集 Vol.55 No.1

Effects of Diagnostic Tests on Classroom Teaching and Learning

Nami Shin,Sang-Keun Shin 한국응용언어학회 2010 응용 언어학 Vol.26 No.3

The claim that diagnostic testing can improve language teaching and learning is not new, but there is very little work on the usefulness of this important instructional tool. Utilizing both quantitative and qualitative research methods, this study examined whether classroom diagnostic tests could provide critical information for the teacher and the students that could make classroom teaching and learning more effective. The results showed that the use of diagnostic tests had a beneficial effect on teaching and learning. The teacher’s time allotment in the experimental group was determined by the number of the students who were already familiar with course objectives. The tests also had a positive effect on the students’ achievement. Implications of the findings are discussed.

“Beyond Stories of Struggle and Triumph”: Re-envisioning the American Immigrant Autobiography in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation

Nami Shin 한국아메리카학회 2017 美國學論集 Vol.49 No.2

Published in 1989, Eva Hoffman’s memoir Lost in Translation precedes the age of increased globalization. Considering the discourse of globalization gained much critical attention in the 1980s, however, the memoir was written during a time global modes of thinking started to emerge in order to grasp a wide range of social phenomena. This essay examines how a growing consciousness of increased global mobility and its implications upon experiences of exile and immigration informs the memoir’s form and content. Historically, the immigrant autobiography has been predominantly understood through the teleology of progress and settlement. I argue that the author’s attempt to give shape to her migratory life that unfolds over three nations calls forth a radical re-envisioning of the American immigrant autobiography. Departing from an emphasis on the teleology of progress and settlement, Lost in Translation asks us to conceive the immigrant experience in more global terms by depicting Hoffman’s migratory life as a growing web of affiliations with diverse Eastern European émigré populations sharing the conditions of exile and emigration.

Re-envisioning the Epic through the Second Person Voice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée

( Nami Shin ) 서울대학교 미국학연구소 2021 미국학 Vol.44 No.2

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée proliferates with many pronouns. Whether the various subjects invoked in Dictée refer to a single common figure remains ambiguous. By paying close attention to the ambiguity of narrative voice, this essay examines how the creation of narrative ambiguity in Dictée is closely linked to the author’s employment of the second person voice. This essay particularly attends to how Cha explores the narrative possibilities of the second person voice in the text’s “Calliope/Epic Poetry” section in order to reflect upon experiences of exile and migration on a transnational scale. Through the intimacy and narrative ambiguity of the second person voice, Cha is able to create an epic on migration that is not only transnational in scope, but also invites the reader to engage with the self-alienating aspects of exilic and immigrant life in an unusually intimate yet powerful manner.

Reading as Close Encounter: The Intimacy of "You" in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Thing Around Your Neck"

( Nami Shin ) 한국영미문학페미니즘학회 2017 영미문학페미니즘 Vol.25 No.3

Compared to first and third person narration, second-person narration has held a less frequent presence within modern prose fiction. Due to its rare occurrence, scholars have given it little critical attention. It was not until the early 1990s that second-person narration came to be recognized and discussed by critics in more extensive ways. A distinctive feature of the second-person voice that differentiates it from other modes of narration is that it creates a peculiar kind of experience for the reader. It invites active reader involvement by making the reader feel as if being addressed. Drawing upon the insights of recent critical work on second-person voice and its impact on the way the reader comes to relate to the story's character, this essay examines how second-person narration in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short story, "The Thing Around Your Neck," offers an innovative means for exploring the precarious nature of contemporary migratory life experienced by women in the Nigerian diaspora. I argue that the intimacy of second-person narration allows the reader to closely engage with the female migrant's affective state and internal struggles. In "The Thing Around Your Neck," the text emerges as a powerful medium through which the reader is able to connect with a figure that holds a rather invisible and highly marginalized place in society.

정착 너머의 이민 서사 : 주노 디아스의 『드라운』을 통해 본 이주 새롭게 쓰기

신나미(Shin, Nami) 인천대학교 인문학연구소 2020 인문학연구 Vol.34 No.-

역사적으로 미국 문학 이민 서사에서 정착의 문제는 큰 비중을 차지해 왔다. 하지만 20 세기 후반에 들어서면서 이주의 경험은 정착 중심의 서사를 넘어 새롭게 쓰이기 시작하였다. 본 논문은 이민 서사의 새로운 양상을 도미니카계 미국 작가 주노 디아스의 단편 소설집 『드라운』에 대한 분석을 통하여 살펴보고자 한다. 『드라운』총 10 편의 짧은 소설로 이뤄진 단편 소설집으로 도미니카계 이주자들의 이야기를 도미니카 공화국 또는 미국을 배경으로 다양한 화자의 시각과 등장인물들을 통하여 보여주고 있다. 『드라운』이 가지는 중요한 특징은 작품을 이루는 단편 소설들이 독립된 이야기의 모음이라기 보다는 서로 느슨하게 연결된 이야기들로 읽힌다는 점이다.『드라운』에서 단편 소설 간의 연결성은 유니오르라는 이름을 가진 화자의 반복적 등장을 통하여 드러난다. 본 논문은 느슨하게 이어진 이야기 연결망 형태의 서술 방식이 가지는 확장성에 주목하고 있으며, 디아스가 작품 『드라운』에서 기존 정착 중심의 패러다임을 넘는 이주 서사를 제시함과 동시에 20세기 후반 도미니카계 이주자를 포함한 다양한 라틴 아메리카계 이주자들의 집단적 기억을 아우르는 열린 형태의 서사를 보여주고 있다고 논한다. Historically, problems related to settlement have deeply informed narratives of immigration in the U.S. However, as many critics have recently pointed out, an emphasis upon the teleology of settlement has undergone a stark change over the last two decades. This paper examines how Juno Diaz narrates migration in Drown (1996) which departs from the more traditional teleology of settlement. A striking feature of Drown’s collection of short stories is how they are far from being a group of disparate narratives and can be rather read as a network of loosely inter-connected stories. This essay shows how the collection’s loosely inter-connected structure allows Diaz to narrate migration beyond the teleology of settlement. It argues that such a departure is critically enabling. By enabling the narrative ambiguity invoked by Drown’s network-like form, the shape given to a collective memory of displacement and migration informing the Dominican and Latin American diaspora in the late twentieth century is clearly drawn.

다시 번역하기로서의 읽기: 번역의 스캔들을 통해 살펴본 테레사 학경 차의 <딕테>

신나미(Nami Shin) 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소 2018 영미연구 Vol.44 No.-

본 논문은 로렌스 베누티의 번역의 윤리에 대한 논의를 바탕으로 테레사 학경 차 (Theresa Hak Kyung Cha) 의 작품 『딕테』에서 드러나는 번역의 문제를 살펴보고자 한다. 『딕테』는 여러 가지 형태로 번역과 관련한 질문을 독자에게 던진다. 『딕 테』와 관련한 기존 비평은 작품 속에서 번역의 문제가 받아쓰기의 상황을 통하여 보여주고 있음에 주목하였다. 특히, 많은 비평가들은 작품이 소개하고 있는 받아쓰기 예문들이 언어 및 문화간 권력의 차이를 효과적으로 보여주고 있다는 사실에 집중하였 다. 받아쓰기가 새로운 언어를 습득하는 공부의 과정이라면, 작품 속 번역의 예문들은 이민자가 새로운 언어의 습득하는 과정에서 겪는 문화 및 언어간 권력 구조를 비판적 으로 바라보게 하는 의의를 가진다. 기존 비평이 『딕테』 작품 속 번역의 문제를 받아쓰기의 예문들을 통해서 주요하게 다뤄왔다면, 본 논문은 번역이 차학경의 작품 속에서 좀 더 다양한 형태의 해석 행위를 포괄하고 있다는 사실에 주목한다. 『딕테』 속 번역의 다양한 예시들을 살펴봄으로써 본 논문은 차학경이 번역의 문제를 통하여 한국의 식민 역사적 상황에 대한 비판적 고찰 및 재해석을 강조하고 있음을 주장한다. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s experimental text, Dictée, is a text that asks us to engage with problems of translation. Major criticism has particularly focused on how the text introduces sites of translation in the form of dictation and translation exercises. Moments of dictation and translation appearing in Dictée invite critical reflection upon the asymmetries of power relations informing processes of language learning and immigration. This essay examines how Cha’s writing in Dictée enlarges notions of translation by bringing attention to varied forms of interpretation and mediation that emerge in the context of Korea’s colonial and postcolonial condition. Drawing upon the insights of Venuti’s discussion of translation as a cultural practice that is informed by the asymmetries of power, this essay argues that Dictée calls for critical engagement with the Korean colonial and postcolonial condition by pointing to the failures of translation shaped by the legacies of various cultural and political forces. Far from being limiting and thus failing, the gaps and holes of translation in Cha’s writing not only speak to the scandals of translation, but also call for acts of re-translation.

MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDING OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND UNCONCIOUSNESS

NAMI LEE,EUN YOUNG KIM,CHANGSOO SHIN 한국산업응용수학회 2017 Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and A Vol.21 No.2

This paper approaches the subject of consciousness and unconsciousness from a mathematical point of view. It sets up a hypothesis that when unconscious state becomes conscious state, high density energy is released. We argue that the process of transformation of unconsciousness into consciousness can be expressed using the infinite recursive Heaviside step function. We claim that differentiation of the potential of unconsciousness with respect to time is the process of being conscious in a world where only time exists, since the thinking process never have any concrete space. We try to attribute our unconsciousness to a special solution of the multi-dimensional advection partial differential equation which can be represented by the finite recursive Heaviside step function. Mathematical language explains how the infinitive neural process is perceived and understood by consciousness in a definitive time.

High School Students’ Sugar Intake Behaviors and Consumption of Sugary Processed Food Based on the Level of Sugar-related Nutrition Knowledge in Seoul Area

Nami Joo,Shin-Kyum Kim,Ji-young Yoon 대한지역사회영양학회 2017 대한지역사회영양학회지 Vol.22 No.1

High School Students' Sugar Intake Behaviors and Consumption of Sugary Processed Food Based on the Level of Sugar-related Nutrition Knowledge in Seoul Area

Joo, Nami,Kim, Shin-Kyum,Yoon, Ji-young The Korean Society of Community Nutrition 2017 대한지역사회영양학회지 Vol.22 No.1

Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate high school students' sugar intake behaviors, the status of consuming sugary processed foods, the awareness of sugar, and the experience and interest in sugar-related education based on the level of sugar-related nutrition knowledge. Methods: In this study, five high schools were selected in Seoul, Korea, and a survey was conducted in 400 students on the level of sugar-related nutrition knowledge and sugar intake status. A total of 349 questionnaires were used for the final analysis. For statistical analysis, descriptive statistics was performed; a t-test, ${\chi}^2$ test, and Friedman test were used for comparative analysis. Results: The study results showed a positive association between the knowledge level of sugar and the appropriate sugar intake behavior and sugary food choices. The group with more nutrition knowledge on sugar was found to have good eating habits and to eat less sugary food. The main sources of sugar were beverages, confectionary, and bakery goods in the corresponding order, irrespective of the level of nutrition knowledge related to sugar. A significant difference was found in the groups' awareness of the sugar content of the drinks with 89.4% for the higher-knowledge group, and only 81.5% for the lower-knowledge group (p < 0.05). Results also showed that 43.9% of the higher-knowledge group and 36.4% of the lower knowledge group were interested in participating in education on sugar. Conclusions: This study result indicated the need to help adolescents to avoid excessive sugar intake from only certain favorite foods. Therefore, it is necessary to seek a systematic foundation for participatory education in order for them to maintain a low sugar intake in daily life and lead healthy eating habits by increasing their level of sugar-related information and knowledge.