Sung Joo Hong
Hanyang University
About the Lab
Professor Sung Joo Hong's research lab specializes in modern and contemporary American literature, with a focus on avant-garde drama, experimental narrative forms, and Indigenous storytelling traditions. The lab explores how literary forms challenge conventional structures—such as linear plot and representational character—through repetition, fragmentation, and anti-realist techniques. It also investigates the intersection of voice, identity, and narrative authority in works by writers like Gertrude Stein and Leslie Marmon Silko, particularly in relation to oral traditions and cultural resistance. The lab emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches, combining literary studies with cultural theory and critical race studies.
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Selected Papers
2Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights(1938) shares some of the core traits of the avant-garde drama, as the play reveals vigorous antagonism to traditional dramatic conventions, questioning the validity of traditional plot and character or of dramatic action. Stein’s anti-representational tendencies had led her to create a new dramatic form of almost plotless, paint-like, flattening, static, and simple stage performance. The old structure of dramatic fluctuations is replaced with the
Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Storyteller” in her hybrid collection, Storyteller, is indeed a story about being a storyteller. An anonymous Eskimo girl, under the influence of the communal oral tradition, learns what it is to have the power of telling and retelling stories in the process of searching for her own story. Her narrative authority as the proprietor of her own story is, however, denied by her own self. The heroine struggles to conjoin her story with the old stories told by her tribal ancestr
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