...Hoon Song Authorship is the key site where the power of North Korea's leader gathers itself. The founding father, Kim Il Sung, “authored” the nation by scripting the philosophico-political text Juch'e . But this element of leader-as-author—the “king” who is also “philosopher”—is constitutively...

...Tibor Méray Duke University Press 2007 Pain, Doubts, and Hopes: Korean Memories Tibor Méray I arrived in North Korea for the first time in my life at a summer dawn. It was August 9, to be precise. It was dark...

... geopolitical rhetorics resonate across the globe to impact diasporic subjects (in this case, me) on a daily, psychological basis. I have been struck for numerous years by the way that the behavior of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) seems to match that of a dysfunctional...

... “Filiation Continuous and Discon- tinuous: Two Recent Anthropological Approaches to North Korea” in Critical Asian Studies (2013). His current work examines the politics of Western representations of North Korea. ...

... of 2 million Koreans, about half remained in north- east China after liberation from colonial rule. About five decades later—from the early 1990s—Korean settlers and their descendants began returning to South Korea as migrant laborers. About 70 to 80 percent of the total 2 million Koreans in China...

.... Tibor Méray was born in Budapest in 1924. He worked as an editor of the Szabad Nep, the organ of the Hungarian Communist Party, under György Lukács’s tutelage. As his essay describes, he was dispatched to North Korea in 1951 to cover the war and, later, the armistice at Panmunjom. After...

..., coedited with Tomiko Yoda (Duke University Press, 2006). Tibor Méray worked for Szabad Nép (Free People), the major daily of the Hungarian Communist Party, and was the editor of its cultural pages and of the literary peri- odical Csillag (Star ). He was sent to North Korea to cover the cease-fire...

... divided North and South Korea and across the Taiwan Strait look like diminishing flashpoints for armed conflict, they, nevertheless, continue to remind us of unresolved ideological differences between “communism” and “democracy.” The parties who fought on both sides of these divisions...

.... That moment has passed for Marxists or Marxism-inspired political activists, not because the goals have been reached but because they have lost their drawing power with the compara- tive economic success of South Korea over North Korea, and because the goals simply evaporated from the horizon...

... nobility and self-sufficiency, a bunker promises protection from a nuclear attack from North Korea or for someone escaping creditors. The Parks’ bunker is an architectural allegory for settler modernity, as described by Jodi Kim ( 2018 : 53): survival depends upon the military empire of perpetual debt...

... modes of these cultural dis- placements and global interfaces, as in South Korea and our “axis of evil” to the North, can make the United States look like Van Winkle’s Hudson River hamlet, despite its long-held (and much challenged) bases at the DMZ. 2. Killer Capitalism on the Rim...

.... In “North Korea’s ‘Succession’ of Marxism,” Hoon Song revisits these remarks by Žižek, suggesting that Lenin’s creative translation of Marx has its own roots in Marx’s work. Of essential importance, Song suggests, is the analogy Marx draws between the equivalent form and the person of sover- eign...

... of prestigious honors from the Ford and Mellon Foundations, Professor Judy has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes, Université de Tunis I, in Tunisia, and has lived and traveled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa. He is a member of the editorial collective...

... the divides of race, nationality, and culture. In Asia, in China, in Australia, in Europe, in North and South America, I have met women who were fellow readers and fellow writers, and who have shared with me a fund of common experience and a sense of solidarity. We have been able to recognize one...

... the Big Film?’: ‘De-Westernizing’ the Blockbuster in Korea and China .” In Movie Blockbusters , edited by Stringer Julian , 217 – 29 . New York : Routledge . Bocquet Olivier Rochette Jean-Marc 2015 . Snowpiercer 3: Terminus . London : Titan Comics . Chan Kenneth . 2009...

... States, he neither aligns his wartime experiences with the superpower rivalry nor conducts a critical meta-engagement with Cold War ideology. When Frank comes back to the United States in 1955 from a tour of duty as a combat infantryman in Chosin, Korea, he instead undergoes the unheimlich experience...

... capitalism, colonialism, and nationalism, Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria, will be published by Duke University Press in 2005. She is also working on a new book, A Hierarchical Community: Korean Diaspora and Uni- fication, which...

.... 1994 . “ The Impact of the Joint College Entrance Examination on English Teaching and Learning in Taiwan .” In English Studies in Korea: Retrospect and Prospect , 53 – 84 . Seoul : English Language and Literature Association of Korea . Lin Hsuta 林徐達 . 2010 . “ Hou Zhimin Taiwan de Huaijiu...

... and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea. Politics, History, and Culture. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Morin, Edgar. The Cinema, or the Imaginary Man. Trans. Lorraine Mortimer. Minne- apolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Morin, Edgar. The Stars. Trans. Richard Howard. Minneapolis...

... tower in Korea, the North East Asia Trade Tower, mostly remained empty other than a guard on the first floor. Their ubiquitous computing nerve center building, which would headquarter big data gathering from life throughout the city itself, long remained vacant and much of the planned-­for data...