Worm-time : memories of division in South Korean aesthetics / We Jung Yi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yi, We Jung, 1980- author.

Series:

Cornell East Asia series ; 221.

Cornell East Asia series; number 221

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean literature--Korea (South)--History and criticism.

Korean literature.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Abjection in literature.

Nationalism and collective memory--Korea (South).

Nationalism and collective memory.

Politics and culture--Korea (South)--History--20th century.

Politics and culture.

Politics and culture--Korea (South)--History--21st century.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 249 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Memories of division in South Korean aesthetics

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Worm-Time traces diversifying cultural practices in South Korea to redress the violent subjection of people to the Cold War order. Characterizing their traumatic survival and warped growth in the wake of the Korean War as "wormification," Yi throws into relief the potential of transformative living embodied by Northern refugees, leftist partisans, and their broken families"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: layered time in divided Korea

Worlding through transcendence: Choi In-hun's novels of division

Crawling through worm-time: Park Wan-suh's stories of the everyday

From repressed to revolutionary: Jo Jung-rae's T'aebaek mountain range and the dialogic minjung imagination

Spectacle for intimacy: division blockbusters and transmemory practices

Surplus against growth: coming-of-age war webtoons and the mobile caesura

Witnessing in montage: Yoon Taeho's Operation chromite and survival

de-figured

Coda: para-sites for border-riding.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Yi, We Jung, 1980- Worm-time.

ISBN:

9781501778575

1501778579

OCLC:

1479763608