Alzo David-West
Biographic Data
| ID | 239252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alzo David-West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alzo |
| FAMILY NAME | David-West |
| SIGNATURE | DAVID-WEST A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aichi Prefectural University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching English to North Korean refugees with PSCORE: An interview with EFL tutor Christine Pickering
The following interview with Christine Pickering, an instructor of English as a foreign language at Duksung Women's University, Seoul, South Korea, discusses teaching English to North Korean refugees with People for Successful Corean Reunification (PSCORE). A non-profit nongovernmental organization and human rights-national unification initiative, PSCORE was founded in 2006 in Seoul and has an office in Washington, D.C., with support from the U.S…
Erich Fromm and North Korea: Social Psychology and the Political Regime
This paper addresses the problem of social psychology and the political regime in North Korea through the sociopsychological theory of humanist psychoanalyst Erich Fromm. Since humanist psychoanalysis has not been systematically applied in academic discussion on North Korean politics and society, the author outlines Fromm's neo-Marxist/neo-Freudian perspective in conjunction with observations on eroding totalitarianism and patricentrism, group na…
North Korea and the Contradiction of Inversion: Dictatorship, Markets, Social Reform
This article addresses the problem of dictatorship and reform in North Korea and where the country and regime are going in the course of post-Soviet marketization. The method used is analytical, descriptive, and synthetic; it assimilates recent qualitative and quantitative scholarship (political science and sociology) in North Korean studies; it interprets current developments; and it predicts socioeconomic and sociopsychological outcomes in the …
Aesthetics and politics in North Korean socialist realist painting: On approved ways of seeing
This paper inquires into aesthetics and politics in North Korean socialist realist painting by way of an examination of North Korean journalist Han Chol Ju's article series “Visit to Korean Art Gallery” and three paintings in Korea Today (2010–2011). The paper explains late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's national-Stalinist conception of Juche socialist realism in On Fine Art (1991); considers one Korean painting (Chosŏnhwa), two oil paintings …
North Korean Newsbriefs
North Korea and the Opinion of Fascism: A Case of Mistaken Identity
This paper addresses the recent opinion in circulation among some academics and journalists that North Korea has something to do with the extreme right-wing doctrine of fascism. The author explains that the association is in factual error and neglects the politics and economics of North Korea, which has a history of pre-liberation and post-liberation struggle against Imperial Japanese fascism. Neither "fascist" nor "fascistic" in its political pe…
North Korean Literature and 'Theoretical Problems of Literary Studies: Tatiana Gabrousseko's Soldiers on the Cultural Front
Tatiana Gabroussenko's Soldiers on the Cultural Front is the second book in English after 16 years to deal with North Korean literature. Written as a literary history with a strong focus on biography and policy, the study explains that Soviet Stalinist socialist realism was successfully implanted in North Korea from 1945 to 1960. Soldiers on the Cultural Front, however, neglects the 'theoretical problems of literary studies.' The consequence is t…
North Korean Newsbriefs
Archetypal Themes in North Korean Literature: Working Notes on Problems and Possibilities
This paper, composed as a set of working notes, addresses the problems and possibilities of applying Jungian analytical psychology to North Korean literature, one of the most neglected and rarefied subjects of inquiry in Anglo-American literary scholarship. Despite the unusualness of such an application, literary works produced in national-Stalinist North Korea employ prominent motifs and symbols that are familiar in Jungian archetypal criticism,…
North Korean Newsbriefs
Teaching English to North Korean Refugees in South Korea: An Interview with Karen Choi
This interview with Karen Choi, an instructor of teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea, addresses problems of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) to North Korean refugees in South Korea. Ms. Choi taught thirty North Korean students in their late teens to thirties in fall 2007 in voluntary collaboration with the Seoul-based Korean Refugees Youth Christian Association (KRYCA). S…
North Korean Newsbriefs
North Korea, Fascism and Stalinism: On B. R. Myers' The Cleanest Race
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—and Why It Matters B. R. Myers (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2010) The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves – and Why It Matters is a sma
North Korean Newsbriefs
North Korean Newsbriefs
Stalinism, Post-Stalinism, and Neo-Capitalism: To Be or Not to Be
This commentary examines the concepts of Stalinism, post-Stalinism, and neo-capitalism in the journalistic writings of Professor Andrei Lankov. A leading authority in the field of North Korean history, Lankov also writes articles and columns for a number of major media outlets. As a journalist, he has proposed that North Korea in the twenty-first century is no longer a Stalinist state, but a post-Stalinist authoritarian system that is characteriz…
North Korean Newsbriefs
North Korean Newsbriefs
The Sixth Round of the Six-Party TalksNorth Korea shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon in July 2007 and began disablement of its three facilities in exchange for energy aid, political guarantees, and normalized relations with the United States. This came after the 13 February sixparty agreement, which entitles the impoverished Stalinist state to receive 950,000 tons of heavy fuel oil or its equivalent, so long as certain conditions are met. …
The North Korean Positive Hero in The People of the Fighting Village
This essay investigates the problem of the North Korean positive hero in Chon Se Bong's novelette The People of the Fighting Village (1953/1986) through an examination of the 1930s Soviet-Stalinist socialist realist arts doctrine as espoused by Stalin's cultural czar Andrei Zhdanov and Soviet writers Maxim Gorky and Alexander Fadeyev. The author in turn attempts to identify the compositional and social functions of Chon's protagonist, an ascetic …
Marxism, Stalinism, and the Juche Speech of 1955: On the Theoretical De-Stalinization of North Korea
This essay responds to the argument of Brian Myers that late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung’s Juche speech of 1955 is not nationalist (or Stalinist) in any meaningful sense of the term. The author examines the literary formalist method of interpretation that leads Myers to that conclusion, considers the programmatic differences of orthodox Marxism and its development as “Marxism-Leninism” under Stalinism, and explains that the North Korean Juche…
Nationalist Allegory in North Korea: The Revolutionary Opera Sea of Blood
This essay explores the symbolic mode of nationalist allegory in Sea of Blood (1971/1977) to explain that the preeminent "revolutionary opera" of Stalinist North Korea does not belong to the tradition of literary realism. The opera constructs a closed epic universe, the mythopoeic setting and flat characters of which belie the official North Korean government claim that Sea of Blood is a historically faithful representation of the Manchurian guer…
Erich Fromm and North Korea: Social Psychology and the Political Regime
This paper addresses the problem of social psychology and the political regime in North Korea through the sociopsychological theory of humanist psychoanalyst Erich Fromm. Since humanist psychoanalysis has not been systematically applied in academic discussion on North Korean politics and society, the author outlines Fromm's neo-Marxist/neo-Freudian perspective in conjunction with observations on eroding totalitarianism and patricentrism, group na…
North Korea, Fascism and Stalinism: On B. R. Myers' The Cleanest Race
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—and Why It Matters B. R. Myers (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2010) The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves – and Why It Matters is a sma
Nationalist Allegory in North Korea: The Revolutionary Opera Sea of Blood
This essay explores the symbolic mode of nationalist allegory in Sea of Blood (1971/1977) to explain that the preeminent "revolutionary opera" of Stalinist North Korea does not belong to the tradition of literary realism. The opera constructs a closed epic universe, the mythopoeic setting and flat characters of which belie the official North Korean government claim that Sea of Blood is a historically faithful representation of the Manchurian guer…
The North Korean Positive Hero in The People of the Fighting Village
This essay investigates the problem of the North Korean positive hero in Chon Se Bong's novelette The People of the Fighting Village (1953/1986) through an examination of the 1930s Soviet-Stalinist socialist realist arts doctrine as espoused by Stalin's cultural czar Andrei Zhdanov and Soviet writers Maxim Gorky and Alexander Fadeyev. The author in turn attempts to identify the compositional and social functions of Chon's protagonist, an ascetic …
Marxism, Stalinism, and the Juche Speech of 1955: On the Theoretical De-Stalinization of North Korea
This essay responds to the argument of Brian Myers that late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung’s Juche speech of 1955 is not nationalist (or Stalinist) in any meaningful sense of the term. The author examines the literary formalist method of interpretation that leads Myers to that conclusion, considers the programmatic differences of orthodox Marxism and its development as “Marxism-Leninism” under Stalinism, and explains that the North Korean Juche…
Stalinism, Post-Stalinism, and Neo-Capitalism: To Be or Not to Be
This commentary examines the concepts of Stalinism, post-Stalinism, and neo-capitalism in the journalistic writings of Professor Andrei Lankov. A leading authority in the field of North Korean history, Lankov also writes articles and columns for a number of major media outlets. As a journalist, he has proposed that North Korea in the twenty-first century is no longer a Stalinist state, but a post-Stalinist authoritarian system that is characteriz…
North Korean Newsbriefs
North Korean Newsbriefs
The Sixth Round of the Six-Party TalksNorth Korea shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon in July 2007 and began disablement of its three facilities in exchange for energy aid, political guarantees, and normalized relations with the United States. This came after the 13 February sixparty agreement, which entitles the impoverished Stalinist state to receive 950,000 tons of heavy fuel oil or its equivalent, so long as certain conditions are met. …
North Korean Newsbriefs
North Korean Newsbriefs
North Korean Newsbriefs
Teaching English to North Korean Refugees in South Korea: An Interview with Karen Choi
This interview with Karen Choi, an instructor of teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea, addresses problems of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) to North Korean refugees in South Korea. Ms. Choi taught thirty North Korean students in their late teens to thirties in fall 2007 in voluntary collaboration with the Seoul-based Korean Refugees Youth Christian Association (KRYCA). S…
North Korean Newsbriefs
North Korea, Fascism and Stalinism: On B. R. Myers' The Cleanest Race
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—and Why It Matters B. R. Myers (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2010) The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves – and Why It Matters is a sma
North Korean Newsbriefs
Archetypal Themes in North Korean Literature: Working Notes on Problems and Possibilities
This paper, composed as a set of working notes, addresses the problems and possibilities of applying Jungian analytical psychology to North Korean literature, one of the most neglected and rarefied subjects of inquiry in Anglo-American literary scholarship. Despite the unusualness of such an application, literary works produced in national-Stalinist North Korea employ prominent motifs and symbols that are familiar in Jungian archetypal criticism,…
North Korean Newsbriefs
North Korea and the Opinion of Fascism: A Case of Mistaken Identity
This paper addresses the recent opinion in circulation among some academics and journalists that North Korea has something to do with the extreme right-wing doctrine of fascism. The author explains that the association is in factual error and neglects the politics and economics of North Korea, which has a history of pre-liberation and post-liberation struggle against Imperial Japanese fascism. Neither "fascist" nor "fascistic" in its political pe…
North Korean Literature and 'Theoretical Problems of Literary Studies: Tatiana Gabrousseko's Soldiers on the Cultural Front
Tatiana Gabroussenko's Soldiers on the Cultural Front is the second book in English after 16 years to deal with North Korean literature. Written as a literary history with a strong focus on biography and policy, the study explains that Soviet Stalinist socialist realism was successfully implanted in North Korea from 1945 to 1960. Soldiers on the Cultural Front, however, neglects the 'theoretical problems of literary studies.' The consequence is t…
North Korea and the Contradiction of Inversion: Dictatorship, Markets, Social Reform
This article addresses the problem of dictatorship and reform in North Korea and where the country and regime are going in the course of post-Soviet marketization. The method used is analytical, descriptive, and synthetic; it assimilates recent qualitative and quantitative scholarship (political science and sociology) in North Korean studies; it interprets current developments; and it predicts socioeconomic and sociopsychological outcomes in the …
Aesthetics and politics in North Korean socialist realist painting: On approved ways of seeing
This paper inquires into aesthetics and politics in North Korean socialist realist painting by way of an examination of North Korean journalist Han Chol Ju's article series “Visit to Korean Art Gallery” and three paintings in Korea Today (2010–2011). The paper explains late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's national-Stalinist conception of Juche socialist realism in On Fine Art (1991); considers one Korean painting (Chosŏnhwa), two oil paintings …
Teaching English to North Korean refugees with PSCORE: An interview with EFL tutor Christine Pickering
The following interview with Christine Pickering, an instructor of English as a foreign language at Duksung Women's University, Seoul, South Korea, discusses teaching English to North Korean refugees with People for Successful Corean Reunification (PSCORE). A non-profit nongovernmental organization and human rights-national unification initiative, PSCORE was founded in 2006 in Seoul and has an office in Washington, D.C., with support from the U.S…
Erich Fromm and North Korea: Social Psychology and the Political Regime
This paper addresses the problem of social psychology and the political regime in North Korea through the sociopsychological theory of humanist psychoanalyst Erich Fromm. Since humanist psychoanalysis has not been systematically applied in academic discussion on North Korean politics and society, the author outlines Fromm's neo-Marxist/neo-Freudian perspective in conjunction with observations on eroding totalitarianism and patricentrism, group na…
Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies (21 works) · Political science (13 works) · Geography (9 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (4 works)