Archaepelago”
Island Intimacies ( Naeryŏk ) and Weathered Flesh in Jeju Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12423907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeong Eun Annabel We (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-90 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | positions asia critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-9847 • E-ISSN: 1527-8271 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10679847-12157520 |
| OpenAlex | W4416349223 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
This article examines how artists from Jeju Island, South Korea, envision intimacies across spatial and spiritual severances imposed by Jeju's history as a militarily occupied and developmentally expropriated island. The article proposes “archaepelago,” or archaeological considerations of islands as a way of conducting archipelagic studies. Such focusing on vertical relations reveals new resonances in lateral connections across islands. Paying attention to Jeju's grounded layers and spirituality allows a closer look at the rich efforts of artists to connect with history, environment, and ongoing spiritual practices. Particularly, these artists engage ceremonies and found organic materials to reconcile the living with the dead and with the gods. Such intimate storytelling (naeryŏk) across animate and spiritual boundaries is part of larger efforts toward transpacific decolonization
Archipelagic state · Flesh · Spirituality · Storytelling · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Japanese History and Culture
Communal Mourning and Contemporary Elegy in Korean Poetry
Archipelago of Resettlement
Embodied Reckonings
The Transit of Empire
Militarized Currents
Okinawan Caves as Sites of Forgetting
Archipelagic rhetoric
The Insurgency of Mourning
Settlers of Color and “Immigrant” Hegemony
The coloniality of disaster
The transpacific tempest
The Politics of Time
Toward a Decolonial Genealogy of the Transpacific
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |