Kristjana Gunnars has contributed to Asian studies with publications and reviews. Here are some of them.

Books

Beautiful Sorrow: Historical Trauma and the Discourse of Korean Han.

This book is under review. More details will be added later.

Articles, Journals

“The Discourse of Korean Han: Background and Historical Landscape.” Review Article. Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai’i: Korean Studies (48) 2024: 449-477.

Articles, Anthologies

“Trans-East Asian Literature; Language and Displacement in Hong Ying, Hikaru Okuizumi, and Yi Mun-yol.” Reading Chinese Transnationalisms: Society, Literature, Film. Ed. Maria N. Ng and Philip Holden. Hong Kong; Hong Kong University Press, 2006 (77-88).

Reviews

Review of The Flying Tiger. Women Shamans and Storytellers of the Amur. Ed. Kira Van Deusen. Toronto; University of Toronto Quarterly (72), 1. Winter 2002-3. University of Toronto Press (361-362).

Two of Gunnars’ books are themed by the interface between the spiritual and religious traditions of East and West. These books are:

The Silence of Falling Snow. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2025. (Literary memoir)

Ruins of the Heart. New York: Angelico Books, 2022. (Poetry)

See publications page for more details on these books.

Kristjana Gunnars has contributed extensively to Canadian Studies in the past. Details about publications on specific authors, currents, ideas in Canadian letters are to be found on the website kristjanagunnarswritings.com. There you will also find her publications and contributions to Nordic Studies and theoretical writings.