Mobile Imperialism and its Fissure in Colonial Choson
Centering on Kim Namch’on’s “To Chollyong”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22351444 |
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| Authors | Jinhyoung Lee (0000-0002-8292-4594, Konkuk University Medical Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 177-195 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Korean Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2631-4134 • E-ISSN: 2516-5399 |
| Publisher | The British Association for Korean Studies (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33526/ejks.20212002.177 |
| OpenAlex | W3163796823 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This paper explores Japanese mobile imperialism as supported by the colonial mobility system and examines an emancipatory imagination, which enables the opening of a fissure in the system, by approaching Kim Namch’ŏn’s short story, “To Chŏllyŏng (Ch. Tieling 鐵嶺),” from the new mobilities paradigm. It argues that, via modern mobility technologies, “sociality,” i.e., the communal ethic, can be created at the core of “the social”; ergo, Korean society, dominated by colonial mobility’s rationality, constructs the colonized people as dehumanized beings while simultaneously incubating an alternative way of living, namely, “the undirected beingtogether.” The spontaneous social cohesion that results is significant, functioning as “an affirmative puissance,” which may undermine Japanese colonial rule
Colonialism · Dehumanization · Group cohesiveness · Political science · Rationality · Sociality · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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