![]() ![]() The Heartless-a paean to the enlightenment and to the Korean minjok-surprisingly reflects this dynamic, testifying to the “loss of hometown” by northwestern (Sŏbugin 西北人) writers like Yi Kwangsu, who regularly code-switched to their local dialects, as well as to the Japanese language. Bio: Ellie Yunjung Choi is Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean Media and Culture at Brown University. ![]() Competing identities of nation-versus-empire dominated its surfaces, veiling the processes of “coming up” (sanggyŏng 上京) to the capital from forgotten localities, as many writers associated with Seoul were actually from provinces with regional affinities. Seoul, the ancient seat of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910), was during the novel’s inception swiftly transforming into the minjok national capital and, simultaneously, a colonial city-within-empire. ![]() This is a new, spatialized reading of the seminal work to reconsider Yi’s alterity (Japan-Korea, city-hometown) as a precondition of modernity itself. The Heartless’s place in world literary studies has often been obscured by the author’s politics. The Institute for Korean Studies Presents:Ellie ChoiVisiting Assistant Professor of East Asian StudiesBrown University"Forgotten Memories of Korean Modernity: Yi Kwangsu's 'The Heartless' and New Perspectives in Colonial Alterity"Flyer:Ībstract: Yi Kwangsu (1892-1950?) was colonial Korea’s most studied figure, triply famous for publishing The Heartless (Mujŏng, 1917), Korea’s first mature novel, for writing the February 8, 1919, Student Declaration which sparked the anti-Japanese March First Movement, and later, for “betraying” the Korean people by collaborating with the colonial state in 1939. Add to Calendar 16:00:00 17:15:00 IKS Lecture: Ellie Choi, " Forgotten Memories of Korean Modernity: Yi Kwangsu's 'The Heartless' and New Perspectives in Colonial Alterity" ![]()
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