The global consensus in academic, specialist and public realms
is that North Korea is a "problem" its nuclear ambitions pose a
threat to international security, its levels of poverty indicate a
humanitarian crisis and its political repression signals a failed
state.
This book examines the cultural dimensions of the international
problem of North Korea through contemporary South Korean and
Western popular imagination s engagement with North Korea. Building
on works by feminist-postcolonial thinkers, in particular Trinh
Minh-ha, Rey Chow and Gayatri Spivak, it examines novels, films,
photography and memoirs for how they engage with issues of
security, human rights, humanitarianism and political agency from
an intercultural perspective. By doing so the author challenges the
key assumptions that underpin the prevailing realist and liberal
approaches to North Korea.
This research attends not only to alternative framings,
narratives and images of North Korea but also to alternative modes
of knowing, loving and responding and will be of interest to
students of critical international relations, Korean studies,
cultural studies and Asian studies."
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