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Portrait of a Suburbanite - Poems of Choi Seung-ja (Paperback)
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Portrait of a Suburbanite - Poems of Choi Seung-ja (Paperback)
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This volume is a translation of Choi Seung-ja's 1991 anthology
titled Portrait of a Suburbanite. Published in the series of "100
Prominent Korean Poets" by Mirae Press, the poems in this volume
were selected from four of Choi's previous works titled, Love of
This Age (1981), Merry Diary (1984), House of Memory (1989), and
the subsequently published My Tomb, Green (1993). Speaking with a
fierce sense of equality and independence, Choi Seung-ja's poetry
battled ossified forms of language not only on the political but
also the personal front. Like her male colleagues, Choi parodied
and critiqued the idol of the father, but even further, she
insightfully explored irreverent content to reveal the gendered
constraints of the lyric form. In particular, Choi exposed the
idolatrous power of the lover, the basis of exploitation and
injustice at the most intimate level. On top of their political
disempowerment as citizens, the private and domestic alienation of
women as daughters, lovers, and wives form a deep stratum of
repression. When Choi's women personae broke this long silence of
compliance nurtured by the traditional lyric and voiced themselves
as exploited and traumatized, yet fearless and tenacious human
beings, the shock of this transgression shook the nation. In turn
it demonstrate how long and how powerfully the gender constrictions
had been imposed on Korean women.
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Imprint: |
Cornell University East Asia Program
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2015 |
Authors: |
Seung-Ja Choi
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Translators: |
Eun Ju Kim
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Dimensions: |
222 x 146 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-939161-73-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-939161-73-8 |
Barcode: |
9781939161734 |
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