@article{ART002253582},
author={jung mi kyung},
title={From the ‘Abject’ Body to the ‘Whatever Being’: Margaret Cho's Standup Comedy},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2017},
volume={30},
number={2},
pages={263-282}
TY - JOUR
AU - jung mi kyung
TI - From the ‘Abject’ Body to the ‘Whatever Being’: Margaret Cho's Standup Comedy
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2017
VL - 30
IS - 2
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 263
EP - 282
SN - 1226-3397
AB - Asian American theatre artists have the difficult task of carving out a space in which to performance an Asian Americanness that is too often American to register as racially or ethnically distinct, and too asian to be legible as American. This dilemma is simply a reflection of the larger paradox posed by multiculturalism as a national origin myth. Karen Shimakawa has suggested that Asian Americanness is an effect of “national abjection.”, the national identity through the designation of that which is deemed “abject, not-American.” and asked “is there a way to recognize the tensions inherent in the project of performing ethnicity that does not rely implicitly on the integrity of a raced national subject?” In Giorgio Agamben’s “whatever being”, Shimakawa finds the way to conceive of subjectivity that does not depend on political identity categories for its integrity, without requiring one to dispense with categories altogether. This essay offers a way of reading “whatever being” in Korean American Commedienne Margaret Cho’s standup comedies. Her comedies do not offer any premise of justice achieved. Rather than exposure leading to justice, Margaret Cho shows her comedies work on a principle that values less cognitive resolution and more dwelling in embodied contradictions. Margaret Cho’s question in I’m the one that I want, “where’s my parade?” instantiates a type of being, not participating in any identity position but reveals a new state of being of Asian American queer.
KW - Margaret Cho;“Whatever being”;I’m the one that I want;Notorious Cho;Cho Revolution
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jung mi kyung. (2017). From the ‘Abject’ Body to the ‘Whatever Being’: Margaret Cho's Standup Comedy. Journal of Modern English Drama, 30(2), 263-282.
jung mi kyung. 2017, "From the ‘Abject’ Body to the ‘Whatever Being’: Margaret Cho's Standup Comedy", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.30, no.2 pp.263-282.
jung mi kyung "From the ‘Abject’ Body to the ‘Whatever Being’: Margaret Cho's Standup Comedy" Journal of Modern English Drama 30.2 pp.263-282 (2017) : 263.
jung mi kyung. From the ‘Abject’ Body to the ‘Whatever Being’: Margaret Cho's Standup Comedy. 2017; 30(2), 263-282.
jung mi kyung. "From the ‘Abject’ Body to the ‘Whatever Being’: Margaret Cho's Standup Comedy" Journal of Modern English Drama 30, no.2 (2017) : 263-282.
jung mi kyung. From the ‘Abject’ Body to the ‘Whatever Being’: Margaret Cho's Standup Comedy. Journal of Modern English Drama, 30(2), 263-282.
jung mi kyung. From the ‘Abject’ Body to the ‘Whatever Being’: Margaret Cho's Standup Comedy. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2017; 30(2) 263-282.
jung mi kyung. From the ‘Abject’ Body to the ‘Whatever Being’: Margaret Cho's Standup Comedy. 2017; 30(2), 263-282.
jung mi kyung. "From the ‘Abject’ Body to the ‘Whatever Being’: Margaret Cho's Standup Comedy" Journal of Modern English Drama 30, no.2 (2017) : 263-282.
