Playing the Feminine: Politics of Gendered Performances in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya

( Park¸ Joo Hyun ) 동국대학교 영어권문화연구소 2018 영어권문화연구 Vol.11 No.2

This essay explores the performativity of villainesses in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya to investigate Dacre’s ironic use of gendered ideals. Featuring two villainesses, Victoria and Megalena, who use their knowledge of the others’ desire for maidenly/matronly women in disguising and achieving their vile wants, Dacre exposes the fictitiousness of gendered ideals and mocks the one-dimensionality of gender norms. Victoria and Megalena are keen actresses adept in cloaking themselves in robes of femininity, and their efforts to perform the ideal feminine may mark them as submissive. But it is important to note that the performative selves over which the two villainesses have full command allow them to unravel gendered hierarchies, to turn the dynamics of male-female gazing on its head. Victoria and Megalena’s assertive personas, which Dacre condemns but does not soften, also gives hints as how we can understand Dacre’s defiant approach to gender politics of her time as well as to the gothic convention, both of which drew firm lines between the male and female. Like its villainesses who transgress the boundaries of gender, Dacre’s text also defies the gothic norm that relates terror to female and horror to male writing by appropriating them both. Like her female antagonists, Dacre performs the femimine role of an apologetic writer, reassuring the readers with “dear reader” comments and the violent deaths she pens for them. However, the fact that Dacre forces her readers to witness villainesses glide in and out of idealized female roles with ease and undermine, criticize, and subvert the gendered order of things reveals that Dacre’s intent had been to unnerve and disrupt, rather than titillate then reassure.

Korean Validation of the Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris, and San Diego Autoquestionnaire

Hyeona Yu(Hyeona Yu),Joohyun Yoon(Joohyun Yoon),Chan Woo Lee(Chan Woo Lee),Ji Yoon Park(Ji Yoon Park),Yoonjeong Jang(Yoonjeong Jang),Yun Seong Park(Yun Seong Park),Hyun A Ryoo(Hyun A Ryoo),Nayoung Cho 대한신경정신의학회 2022 PSYCHIATRY INVESTIGATION Vol.19 No.10

Thermo-sensitive assembly of the biomaterial REP reduces hematoma volume following collagenase-induced intracerebral hemorrhage in rats

Park, Joohyun,Kim, Jong Youl,Choi, Seong-Kyoon,Kim, Jae Young,Kim, Jae Hwan,Jeon, Won Bae,Lee, Jong Eun Elsevier 2017 Nanomedicine Vol.13 No.6

<P><B>Abstract</B></P> <P>Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) frequently results in severe disabilities and high mortality. RGD-containing elastin-like polypeptide (REP), a modified elastin-like polypeptide (ELP), is a thermally responsive biopolymer. REP has high affinity for cells and is known to show non-immunotoxicity, -cytotoxicity, and -inflammatory responses. Here we found that administration of REP in the acute phase of the ICH rat model reduced the hematoma volume, decreased the number of activated microglia, attenuated the expression of von Willebrand Factor (vWF), and prevented the leakage of immunoglobulin G (IgG) into the cerebral parenchyma without any occlusion of intact microvessels. Therefore, the present data suggest that REP treatment could be a novel therapeutic strategy for attenuating the acute phase of ICH.</P> <P><B>Graphical Abstract</B></P> <P>Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is one of the most lethal diseases and results in severe disabilities and high mortality worldwide. RGD-containing elastin-like polypeptide (<B>REP</B>) is cell-adhesive elastin-like polypeptide (ELP). Using favorable features of REP such as non-toxic but highly biocompatible to live cells, we administered REP through the right common carotid artery after ICH.</P> <P>In this study, we demonstrated that the administration of REP reduced the hematoma volume, prevented the leakage of the blood component into the cerebroparenchyma, and attenuated the migration of activated microglia to the perihematoma area.</P> <P>These data indicate that REP treatment attenuates the reduction of the ICH injury, including the inflammatory responses.</P> <P>[DISPLAY OMISSION]</P>

1인 가구를 위한 스마트홈 서비스 컨셉 제안

JooHyun Park,DaJeong Jeong,HanYoung Ryoo 한국서비스디자인학회 2017 한국서비스디자인학회 학술대회자료집 Vol.2017 No.1

Single Center Experience of Treatment of Isolated Chronic Total Occlusion(CTO) of Popliteal Artery

Joohyun Kim(김주현),Sangkyun Mok,Young Jun Park,Jang Yong Kim,Sang Seob Yun,Sun Cheol Park 대한외과학회 2021 대한외과학회 학술대회 초록집 Vol.2021 No.5

Still “Wild England” after London: Richard Jefferies’s Post-Apocalyptic Critique Against Anthropocentrism

( Joohyun Park ) 한국근대영미소설학회 2021 근대 영미소설 Vol.28 No.2

In After London, Richard Jefferies reveals the wide ranging influence of anthropogenic climate change by suggesting that many industrial cities have been decimated, and by delineating the devolutionary effect the change has had on both the natural and human worlds. Not only that, he sets the temporal background of the post-apocalyptic story to at least a century after the explosion of London, thus emphasizing the massive effect anthropogenic changes can impose on the human society as well as the ecosystem at large. Jefferies’s acknowledgement of non-human entities as actors, and his attunement to the interdependency of human and non-human entities decenter the human, ultimately reconfiguring human-nature relations. Part II, which deals mostly with the protagonist’s adventures, also offers critical insight into the intractability of anthropocentrism. Jefferies denies a conclusive happy ending for Felix, the protagonist of Part II who has inherited the “modern” spirits of the Victorians, revealing his unwillingness to endorse the character’s anthropocentric pragmatism. This, and his refusal to have Felix put humanity firmly back on the path to industrial “progress” before the novel’s ending, marks After London as a proto-ecocritical work intended to disillusion readers of any “romance” that stories of societies being rebuilt on a slate wiped clean might promise.

But Why Did They Kill? : Psychological Interpretations of the Papin Case and Kesselman’s Reinterpretation in My Sister In This House

Park Joohyun(박주현) 한국현대영미드라마학회 2009 현대영미드라마 Vol.22 No.3

The infamous murder of the Papin sisters aroused the attention of not only popular media of the time, but of psychoanalysts such as Jacques Lacan and literary figures like Jean Genet and Wendy Kesselman. Journalists in Papins’ time defined maids’ madness and sexual perversity as the most significant cause of the murder. Such was to relieve the fear of the employers of maids--they needed to believe that not all maids are dangerous. Similarly, psychoanalysts focused on the mental disorder of the sisters, emphasizing the abnormality of the incestuous lesbian relationship of the two girls, thereby reconfirming the common understanding that madness may lead to violence. Genet’s “The Maids” is a literary adaptation which follows the line of such psychological interpretation. Such reading of the case, however, does not take into account the fact that the two murderesses were maids. Maids were doubly oppressed because of their gender and class; without high education, they had to take jobs in the domestic area where they were threatened by not only desire of male members of the household but the oppressive behaviors of their mistresses. Wendy Kesselman’s My Sister In This House (1982) challenges the presupposition of the sisters’ madness and reveals the external factors such as inhuman working condition and constant surveillance of the employers. She emphasizes the shrewdness of the employer who denies the maids of the rudimentary needs of life such as a heated room or break from work, and allows the sisters to speak out as subjects who have the right to demand justice.

The “Almost” Reformers: Isabella Bird’s De-Radicalizing of Grassroots Reforms in Korea and Her Neighbors

( Joohyun Park ) 한국근대영미소설학회 2020 근대 영미소설 Vol.27 No.2

Isabella Bird’s Korea and Her Neighbors is one of the most significant travelogues on Korea which grants us a window into the lives of Koreans in the 1890s, including the ways in which they responded to the changes caused by domestic and international political turbulence. However, Korea has remained in the margins of Victorian and Bird scholarship alike. This paper responds to this gap and examines Korea with a specific focus on Bird’s evaluation of the Donghak movement. Bird at first identifies the Donghaks as “armed reformers rather than rebels.” However, such a positive assessment of the Donghak peasants is short lived, as Bird rescinds her approval of them in her later chapters. The swift change in Bird’s attitude towards the Donghaks as well as her reluctance to lay out the details of their reform projects, this paper argues, stem from the incompatibility between the Donghak’s anti-colonial vision that grounded their syncretic reforms and her own idea of reform suitable for “Oriental” societies, a reform that pushes towards progress as defined by the West.

Assimilation Aborted and Fantasies Traversed in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark

( Joohyun Park ) 한국영미문학페미니즘학회 2019 영미문학페미니즘 Vol.27 No.3

Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark places Anna, a half-English, half creole from the West Indies, on the streets of London, and forces her readers to witness Anna’s repeated failures to assimilate. Through such failings, Rhys strips the abstraction from the potentially subversive force of hybridity. Anna is “not quite” and “less than” in both of her worlds. She identifies herself as a West Indian, but she knows that her whiteness prevents her from truly belonging to the region and its culture. The “stereoscopic vision” Anna possesses enables her to penetrate the exclusivism that bolsters the colonial world(s), but her critiques do not resolve her unbelonging for hybridity’s disruptive force works mostly on an epistemological level. Anna’s attempts to assimilate are aborted because she is a self-identified other―London offers no place for one whose tertiary alterity symptomatically reveals the fundamental flaw in the binary framing that undergirds imperial and nationalistic discourses. Through Anna’s failures to belong, Rhys betrays the fantastical nature of the master narrative maintains the imperial order and, thus “traverses” the fantasy that is the imperial/symbolic order. Anna the hybrid returnee fails to really “return,” but because she does, Rhys is also able to reveal that the concept of subversive hybridity is itself a fantasy.

Yellow Peril Met Off the Beaten Path: Agnes Herbert’s Strategic Genre Mash-up in A Girl’s Adventure in Korea

( Joohyun Park ) 한국근대영미소설학회 2024 근대 영미소설 Vol.31 No.1

Agnes Herbert’s 1924 novel, A Girl’s Adventure in Korea, features a British youth called Anemone Napier exploring colonial Korea. As the first Western novel set in Korea under Japanese rule, it reflects Britain’s political interests in Northeast Asia, especially the imperial entanglements in the region that involved the new and old Asian empires, that is, China and Japan. Herbert blends the “off-the-beaten-path” travelogue genre and the “yellow peril” Asian invasion novel genre, which in effect allows her to obscure Korean anti-colonial resistance and avoid discussing the violent implications of colonization. The recycled tropes of Korean backwardness Anemone uses in her rural observations rationalize Japanese rule and put a positive light on Japanese rule as a means to progress. The villain of the “Yellow Peril” plotline, Yuan-ti, diverts focus from Japanese oppression to a menacing Chinese force threatening regional order and British virtue. The Yuan-ti storyline also allows Herbert to de-emphasize the contentious history of Japanese-Korean relations by showing how Anemone, her Korean staff, Japanese administrators and soldiers collaborate in Anemone’s escape and reestablish peace in Korea. Through encounters with these varied Asians she meets off the beaten path, Anemone learns to hierarchize the distinct “Orientals” and manage them accordingly. And such experiences mature her into a proper female imperial subject capable of imposing order, taming foreign staff, and bringing an ideal foreign staff into her society.