Multivocal Post-Diasporic Selves

Entangled in Korean Dramas

Bibliographic Data

ID12762255
AuthorsJulie Choi (0000-0003-3047-092X, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume11
Issue2
Pages109-123
Publication date2012-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language Identity & Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-7701 • E-ISSN: 1534-8458
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15348458.2012.667305
OpenAlexW2100117104
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited21

I interrogate my personal diaries documenting my life in New York, Beijing, Tokyo, and Sydney over a 20-year period. Taking bearings from Bakhtinian thoughts, I explore the emergence of my post-diasporic identity as a second generation Korean American through watching South Korean dramas. By conversing with journals kept over a 20-year period, I recreate my past, relive memories, and illuminate how dichotomized ways of thinking about language and identity happen within (post-) diasporic speakers. In writing this piece, I venture into the complex terrain of the multilingual self. My focus here is not on past or present Selves but on the processes of the “in-between space” of becoming, exploring the particular dynamics and processes of how certain ways of thinking and seeing are shaped at particular moments, in particular languages, for particular individuals

Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Dynamics (music · Focus (optics · Identity (music · Linguistics · Media studies · Pedagogy · Period (music · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Multilingual Education and Policy

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