PORTRAIT OF A SUBURBANITE by Eunju Seung-Ja (Trans) ( 9781939161734 )

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PORTRAIT OF A SUBURBANITE
POEMS OF CHOI SEUNG-JA

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ISBN 10:

1939161738

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9781939161734

Publisher:

CORNELL UNIVERSITY EAST ASIA PROGRAM

Pub. date:

31 December, 2015

Series:

Cornell East Asia Series

Pages:

224

Description:

Presents a translation of Choi Seung-ja's anthology Portrait of a Suburbanite. Published in the series of 100 Prominent Korean Poets, the poems were selected from four of Choi's previous works: Love of This Age, Merry Diary, House of Memory and My Tomb, Green.

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This volume is a translation of Choi Seung-ja's anthology titled Portrait of a Suburbanite. Published in the series of "100 Prominent Korean Poets", the poems were selected from four of Choi's previous works: Love of This Age, Merry Diary, House of Memory and My Tomb, Green. 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.

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