Korean Modernism's Transnational Epiphanies

IF 0.1 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1215/0041462x-10404939
Kelly S. Walsh, Yoonjin Choi
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Abstract:This essay tracks the circulation and anticolonial reinvention of European modernist epiphanies in Korean modernist prose. The intertextuality of these epiphanies, the authors contend, enables Pak T'aewŏn, Yi Sang, and Yi Hyosŏk to disclose the fraudulence of Japanese cosmopolitanism and imperial modernization, while focalizing the possibilities and limitations of engaging Asian colonial modernity with European forms. In localizing the European epiphany, and ambivalently acknowledging Japanese versions of it, the Korean modernists generate significant irony to interrogate the impulse to wrest concentrated moments of insight, "bliss," or transcendence from the colonial everyday. Perhaps most disquieting is the realization that the exposure of imperialism's "fakeness" lacks the capacity to remedy the material, or literary, conditions of coloniality. Ultimately, Pak, Yi Sang, and Yi Hyosŏk deploy the epiphany to assert the need for a more reflective, neither Japanese nor European, vision; they remain deeply pessimistic, however, about the consummation of one within colonial modernity.
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韩国现代主义的跨国顿悟
摘要:本文追踪了韩国现代主义散文中欧洲现代主义顿悟的流通及其反殖民的再创造。作者认为,这些顿悟的互文性使Pak T'aewŏn、Yi Sang和Yi Hyosŏk能够揭露日本世界主义和帝国现代化的欺骗性,同时聚焦亚洲殖民现代性与欧洲形式相结合的可能性和局限性。在将欧洲的顿悟本土化,并矛盾地承认日本的顿悟版本的过程中,韩国现代主义者产生了重要的讽刺,以质疑从殖民日常中攫取洞察力、“幸福”或超越的集中时刻的冲动。也许最令人不安的是,人们意识到,暴露帝国主义的“虚伪”缺乏补救殖民主义的物质或文学条件的能力。最终,帕克、易桑和易Hyosŏk利用这一顿悟,主张需要一种更深思熟虑的、既非日本也非欧洲的愿景;然而,他们对在殖民现代性中实现一体化仍然深感悲观。
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