Tag: Rey Chow

January 7, 2021

Announcing Our 2021 Literary Studies Catalog

Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2021 Columbia University Press literary studies catalog. The past year was a challenging one on many fronts and we hope the books in this catalog reflect the various ways in...

September 26, 2014

From Radio to Film … And Beyond — Rey Chow

“Long before I came to study film academically, these visits [to my mother’s film studios] had opened my eyes to the utterly fragmentary making of the artwork in the age of technical reproducibility.”—Rey Chow We conclude our week-long feature on...

September 25, 2014

Rey Chow — The Sounds and Scripts of a Hong Kong Childhood

In “The Sounds and Scripts of a Hong Kong Childhood,” the final chapter of Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience, Rey Chow explores elements of her own upbringing in colonial Hong Kong. In the following...

September 24, 2014

Rey Chow on Derrida and the French Language

In her new book Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience, Rey Chow examines misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages in the postcolonial world. In the following passage, Chow considers...

September 23, 2014

Interview with Rey Chow, author of "Not Like a Native Speaker"

“My book asks: can there be other ways of coming to terms with loss? Can loss be perceived, however painfully, as an alternative beginning to something different?”—Rey Chow The following is an interview with Rey Chow, author of Not Like...

September 2, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The Newest from Rey Chow, Wombs in Labor, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles: Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience Rey Chow Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India Amrita Pande Youth: Autobiographical Writings Wolfgang Koeppen The Republic of Užupis: A Novel...