She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader

She Follows No Progression reflects on the plurality of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)’s work and legacy, collecting essays, personalnarratives, poems, conversations, letters, and the extratextual in a reader that attests to Cha’s genre-bending vision and political imagination.The writers, artists, scholars, organizers, and educators collected here, each unique in their voice and method, multiply approaches tolanguage, colonial history, migration, and time in dialogue with Cha’s unequivocally interdisciplinary practice. Their contributions traversesubjects from Asian American studies to literary history, translation, film theory, and experimental poetics, while attending to the gapsbetween these fields and the intractable entanglements of race, class, and gender that underlie them. She Follows No Progression echoes Cha’sappeal for a liberatory horizon emergent from all that we are affixed to in the present.She Follows No Progression is published on the occasion of the 2022 program, The Quick and the Dead: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Edition. TheQuick and the Dead is a yearlong, multiphase project that highlights the life, work, and legacy of a deceased writer by bridging their work tothat of contemporary practitioners. In its third year, the program focused on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.Contributors: Sam Cha, Marian Chudnovsky, Jesse Chun, Una Chung, Anton Haugen, Irene Hsu, Valentina Jager, Juwon Jun, Youbin Kang,Eunsong Kim, Youna Kwak, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Jennifer Gayoung Lee, Sujin Lee, Florence Li, Serubiri Moses, JedMunson, Yves Tong Nguyen, Wirunwan Victoria Pitaktong, Brandon Shimoda, Caterina Stamou, Megan Sungyoon, Teline Trần, and SoyoungYoon.

She Follows No Progression reflects on the plurality of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)’s work and legacy, collecting essays, personalnarratives, poems, conversations, letters, and the extratextual in a reader that attests to Cha’s genre-bending vision and political imagination. The writers, artists, scholars, organizers, and educators collected here, each unique in their voice and method, multiply approaches tolanguage, colonial history, migration, and time in dialogue with Cha’s unequivocally interdisciplinary practice. Their contributions traversesubjects from Asian American studies to literary history, translation, film theory, and experimental poetics, while attending to the gapsbetween these fields and the intractable entanglements of race, class, and gender that underlie them. She Follows No Progression echoes Cha’sappeal for a liberatory horizon emergent from all that we are affixed to in the present. She Follows No Progression is published on the occasion of the 2022 program, The Quick and the Dead: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Edition. TheQuick and the Dead is a yearlong, multiphase project that highlights the life, work, and legacy of a deceased writer by bridging their work tothat of contemporary practitioners. In its third year, the program focused on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Contributors: Sam Cha, Marian Chudnovsky, Jesse Chun, Una Chung, Anton Haugen, Irene Hsu, Valentina Jager, Juwon Jun, Youbin Kang,Eunsong Kim, Youna Kwak, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Jennifer Gayoung Lee, Sujin Lee, Florence Li, Serubiri Moses, JedMunson, Yves Tong Nguyen, Wirunwan Victoria Pitaktong, Brandon Shimoda, Caterina Stamou, Megan Sungyoon, Teline Tr?n, and SoyoungYoon.