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Translator Of Soliloquies: Fugues In The Key Of Dissociation, Seo-Young J. Chu Jan 2020

Translator Of Soliloquies: Fugues In The Key Of Dissociation, Seo-Young J. Chu

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Chu, Seo-Young. “Translator of Soliloquies: Fugues in the Key of Dissociation” (chapbook). Black Warrior Review 46.2, Spring 2020.

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Science-Fictional North Korea: A Defective History, Seo-Young J. Chu Jan 2014

Science-Fictional North Korea: A Defective History, Seo-Young J. Chu

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Kafkaesque, Orwellian, eerie, surreal, bizarre, grotesque, alien, wacky, fascinating, dystopian, illusive, theatrical, antic, haunting, apocalyptic: these are just a few of the vaguely science-fictional adjectives that are now associated with North Korea. At the same time, North Korea has become an oddly convenient trope for a certain aesthetic – an uncanny opacity; an ominous mystique – that many writers and artists have exploited to generate striking science-fictional effects in texts with little or no connection to North Korean reality. (The 2002 Bond film Die another Day, for example, draws from North Korea’s science-fictional aura to animate North Korean super-villains who …

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