...Helen J. S. Lee This article uses the comic poetic genre senryu as a source through which to explore the dynamics of lived experience of working-class Japanese immigrants to Korea. Challenging the dominant paradigm by which we view colonial reality, as a neatly divided portrait of colonial society...

... invoke the problematic of everyday life. Helen J. S. Lee assumes this point in her “Writing Colonial Relations of Everyday Life in Senryu.” She opens, as Richter and Iwasaki advocate, a new historicity. Her subjects are those shock troops...

... and explains the extreme recycling of phrases as part of the poetics (a point that anyone who participates in a senryu or tanka poetry group will quickly learn), not a weakness. The allusive intertextuality that I discuss is based on this flexible...

...- nese literary expressions, see Helen J. S. Lee, “Writing Colonial Relations of Everyday Life in Senryu,” positions 16, no. 3 (2008): 601 – 28. 19. Women constituted 30 – 40 percent of Japanese settlers until the turn of the century, after...