핸스베리의<A Raisin in the Sun>과 샹게의 <for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf>에 나타난 정치성 비교

정광숙 한국현대영미드라마학회 1996 현대영미드라마 Vol.- No.6

BFE: Julia Cho’s Vision of an Unhomely Home for Asian Americans

정광숙 한국현대영미드라마학회 2012 현대영미드라마 Vol.25 No.3

In BFE, Julia Cho presents the issues of location, body, and identity to offer a vision of an unhomely home for the Asian American characters who feel socially and physically dislocated in America. Being rejected by the white Americans and living with a dysfunctional family at a small town in the American Southwest where there are not many Asians, Panny, a fourteen-year old freshman of a high school, feels that she belongs to nowhere. B.F.E., meaning middle of nowhere, is the term she uses to describe the place where she lives, and it may be applied to describe the emotional state and social life of the Asian American characters in the play. This paper explores the nature of the three Korean American characters’ struggle to belong to American society and find their place in America to discuss their diasporic identity as Asian Americans and the idea of unhomely home. Isabel and Panny think their Asian appearance make it complicated for them to be Americans and have plastic surgeries to erase their Asian features. Panny is kidnapped but actually left abandoned by the kidnapper because she is an Asian. Her relationship with a Korean pen pal, Hae-Yoon, is meaningful in that Panny shares her abduction experience with her and realizes her Asian American identity. The idea of unhomely home is discussed in conjunction with agoraphobic Isabel who stays home to make her home unhomely. After failing their relationships, respectively, Cho’s Asian American characters choose to stay together at their unhomely home.

Apocalyptic Vision of Home in Cleveland Raining

정광숙 한국현대영미드라마학회 2009 현대영미드라마 Vol.22 No.3

This paper discusses the ideas of location, home, and identity presented in Song Rno’s Cleveland Raining. Location and home are critical elements for a person to maneuver and establish his or her identity. Cleveland Raining depicts the process of how three Korean Americans and one Ohioan experience racial, familial, and circumstantial problems and come to terms with their identity and circumstance in Cleveland, Ohio. The Korean American characters have to deal with their racial/ethnic identity as well as familial issues, while Mick has to “attack” his own circumstantial issue. By going through a time of change, Jimmy realizes his dream of building an ark which will be a new home for him and Mick; Mari quits medical school to become a “professional healer” and joins Storm’s community of bikers; Storm recognizes her Korean identity; and Mick overcomes his fear of corn and eats kimchee. In his play, Rno, a second-generation Korean American, combines realistic narrative and some improbable, unreal elements in order to say that this play is something that is to him “emotionally true, while not necessarily being ‘real.’” Offering a curious and yet a poignant insight of the diasporic life of Korean Americans, particularly their (and everybody’s) desire for home, Rno demonstrates the difficulty for Asian Americans (and even some white Americans) to find a home or even have a sense of home in the United States. He projects his vision of a new home, which is different from the traditional sense of home, and of a new world which is free from racism, is tolerant of differences, and accepts diverse ethnic cultures. Relying totally on a fantastic imagination to achieve this vision, however, Rno suggests only an apocalyptic vision of home is possible.

Reading War, History, and Historicity in Shaw’s Arms and the Man

정광숙 한국현대영미드라마학회 2003 현대영미드라마 Vol.16 No.1

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당뇨인의 겨울철 식사요법 - 겨울철 활동량 감소 감안한 식사선택 중요

정광숙 사단법인 한국당뇨협회 1994 당뇨 Vol.60 No.-

소아당뇨 환아의 외식과 간식 선택

정광숙 사단법인 한국당뇨협회 1996 당뇨 Vol.78 No.-

부상체의 축방향 지지력 오차를 보상하는 시간 지연 제어기 설계

정광숙 忠州大學校 2002 한국교통대학교 논문집 Vol.37 No.4

Time delay controller(TDC), estimated to be a strong nonlinear controller compensating un-modeling effect as well as modeling error, is implemented to obtain a wide operating range of the single axis magnetic levitation system

Julia Cho’s Desert Trilogy: A Topography of the Lost

정광숙 한국현대영미드라마학회 2013 현대영미드라마 Vol.26 No.3

Growing up in the American Southwest as a second generation Korean American, Julia Cho knows the desert and the lives of Asian Americans. She sees the metaphorical analogy between the landscape of the American desert and Asian American life in the United States. Cho focuses on the sense of loss, dislocation, and failure the characters experience and presents their arid life in her desert trilogy—The Architecture of Loss, BFE, and Durango. This paper discusses how Cho configures the background of the trilogy, the desert, to explore the emotional and psychological landscape of the Asian American characters. The subject matters she deals with in these plays like missing child, plastic surgery, or homosexuality, however, transcend their geographical and racial specificity and are the common issues in contemporary America. The spaces of the plays are devastated by memories of personal and familial losses, and the characters go through the process of gaining a clearer understanding of their loss to live with it. Cho fathoms the depth of loss Asian Americans experience in the America by including such elements as rain and water, inexplicable episodes, and imaginary figures in her desert trilogy.

The Phantom and Fantasy in Julia Cho’s Desert Trilogy

정광숙 한국현대영미드라마학회 2017 현대영미드라마 Vol.30 No.3

Julia Cho’s desert trilogy—The Architecture of Loss, BFE, and Durango—are realistic domestic plays. Some of the characters, however, experience supernatural or mysterious encounters by having a fantasy and/or seeing the phantom. This paper discusses how the characters with traumatic experience project their pain and suffering by constructing fictional, fantastic reality. Abraham and Torok’s notion of incorporation and magical realist fiction critics’ ideas of the phantom and fantasy are applied in order to identity them as manifestations of metapsychological and magical reality. The presence of the mysterious makes the desert plays even more realistic by demonstrating psychological reality of the characters who suffer loss and trauma. Blurring and even transgressing the boundary between fictional reality and empirical reality by including the mysterious in her desert trilogy, Cho explores her characters’ psychological and emotional state and reveals their painful experiences of loss.

Julia Cho’s The Piano Teacher: A Site of Trauma and Testimony

정광숙 한국현대영미드라마학회 2015 현대영미드라마 Vol.28 No.2

This paper discusses the issues of trauma and testimony in Julia Cho’s The Piano Teacher. Cho presents the characters of different ethnicity who suffer from traumas and has them deliver their testimonies to suggest that the world is becoming an increasingly violent place. Mrs. K, an elderly woman who belongs to the dominant culture and a former piano teacher, is the narrator of the play. She starts talking comfortably about her life but soon reveals that she has an issue from the past, particularly with her late husband. Her husband, a refugee who escaped a genocide at his home country, suffered from trauma and affected his wife and the students who came to take piano lessons from Mrs. K. Cho makes their traumas rise to the surface by having two of Mrs. K’s former students come around and testify. The play includes obvious cases of domestic and “familiar” violence as well as indications of genocide and the characters suffering from “family” trauma and “classic” trauma. Thus Cho depicts the reality of violence and trauma which is prevalent in contemporary world.