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eBook
Worm-Time
2024
Overview
Worm-Time challenges
conventional narratives of the Cold War and its end, presenting an
alternative cultural history based on evolving South Korean
aesthetics about enduring national division. From novels
of dissent during the authoritarian era to films and webtoons in
the new millennium, We Jung Yi's transmedia analyses unearth
people's experiences of \"wormification\"-traumatic survival,
deferred justice, and warped capitalist growth in the wake of the
Korean War.
Whether embodied as refugees, leftists, or broken families, Yi's
wormified protagonists transcend their positions as displaced
victims of polarized politics and unequal development. Through
metamorphoses into border riders who fly over or crawl through the
world's dividing lines, they reclaim postcolonial memories buried
in the pursuit of modernization under US hegemony and cultivate a
desire for social transformation. Connecting colonial legacies,
Cold War ideologies, and neoliberal economics, Worm-Time
dares us to rethink the post-WWII consensus on freedom, peace, and
prosperity.
Publisher
Cornell University Press,Cornell University East Asia Program
Subject
ISBN
9781501778575, 1501778579, 9781501778599, 1501778595
