The Poetics of Fractured Memory
Missing History in the Works of Don Mee Choi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469688 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Taylor Roberts (0009-0007-7717-5561, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 285-317 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2024.a953148 |
| OpenAlex | W4408201707 |
| Language | EN |
In examining Korean-American poet and translator Don Mee Choi's KOR-US Trilogy, this essay looks to Hardly War, DMZ Colony, Mirror Nation to grapple with what I term a fractured poetics throughout Choi's collections, which is a poetics that refashions how we come to understand the histories and legacies of occupation, division, neocolonialism, and resistance in the context of South Korean-U.S. geopolitical relations
Art · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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