In Intimate Empire Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines intimate cultural
encounters between Korea and Japan during the colonial era and
their postcolonial disavowal. After the Japanese empire's collapse
in 1945, new nation-centered histories in Korea and Japan actively
erased these once ubiquitous cultural interactions that neither
side wanted to remember. Kwon reconsiders these imperial encounters
and their contested legacies through the rise and fall of
Japanese-language literature and other cultural exchanges between
Korean and Japanese writers and artists in the Japanese empire. The
contrast between the prominence of these and other forums of
colonial-era cultural collaboration between the colonizers and the
colonized, and their denial in divided national narrations during
the postcolonial aftermath, offers insights into the paradoxical
nature of colonial collaboration, which Kwon characterizes as
embodying desire and intimacy with violence and coercion. Through
the case study of the formation and repression of imperial subjects
between Korea and Japan, Kwon considers the imbrications of
colonialism and modernity and the entwined legacies of colonial and
Cold War histories in the Asia-Pacific more broadly.
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