Impossible Speech
The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film
Christopher Hanscom
Impossible Speech
The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film
Christopher Hanscom
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Christopher P. Hanscom questions common understandings of political art by examining four figures central to recent Korean fiction, film, and public discourse: the migrant laborer, the witness to or survivor of state violence, the refugee, and the socially excluded urban precariat.
In Impossible Speech, Hanscom reveals the banality and complacency of recent political art dealing with marginalized figures on the Korean peninsula. Works that are deemed to be justice-oriented or truth-telling are, as Hanscom shows, often already confined by the acceptable parameters of the speakable. A powerful and original intervention in Korean studies.
Hanscom’s Impossible Speech questions realist frames that organize understandings of multiculturalism and migrant workers, reductionist appropriations of trauma, and narrative accounts and defector testimonials of life in North Korea. Placing works that appeal to the verisimilar in close conversation with those that upend communicative transparency, Impossible Speech offers a theoretically sophisticated, interdisciplinary inquiry into the political as possible. A compelling and important book.
Christopher P. Hanscom is a professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea (2013), as well as coeditor of Imperatives of Culture: Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era (2013) and The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire (2016).
In Impossible Speech, Hanscom reveals the banality and complacency of recent political art dealing with marginalized figures on the Korean peninsula. Works that are deemed to be justice-oriented or truth-telling are, as Hanscom shows, often already confined by the acceptable parameters of the speakable. A powerful and original intervention in Korean studies.
Hanscom’s Impossible Speech questions realist frames that organize understandings of multiculturalism and migrant workers, reductionist appropriations of trauma, and narrative accounts and defector testimonials of life in North Korea. Placing works that appeal to the verisimilar in close conversation with those that upend communicative transparency, Impossible Speech offers a theoretically sophisticated, interdisciplinary inquiry into the political as possible. A compelling and important book.
Christopher P. Hanscom is a professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea (2013), as well as coeditor of Imperatives of Culture: Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era (2013) and The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire (2016).