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Korea Colloquium
Jeehyun Choi
Korea Foundation-Korea Institute Postdoctoral Fellow AY2023-2024
Jeehyun Choi is a scholar of Asian American literature specializing in Korean diasporic literature and its relation to histories of leftist political movements in the U.S. and Korea. She is currently working on a book manuscript about the anti-imperialist politics of early Korean diasporic writers who resided in the U.S. She received her Ph.D. in English in 2023 from the University of California, Berkeley.
Chaired by Ju Yon Kim, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard College Professor, Harvard University
Abstract:
This talk explores Korean-language literature produced by the Korean diaspora in the U.S. during the 1930s. While discussions of early Korean American literature have commonly focused on anglophone novelists like Younghill Kang, Korean-language writers of the diaspora help us understand the diverse and transnational dimensions of anti-imperial and anti-capitalist imagination in Asian American literary history. As an example, the talk shows how novelist Chu Yosŏp (1902-1972) offers a powerful commentary on the relationship between race and land ownership in early twentieth-century America while navigating the possibilities of cross-national, interracial solidarity against capitalist exploitation.
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Generously supported by the Sunshik Min Endowment Fund for the Advancement of Korean Literature at the Korea Institute, Harvard University