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...Kevin Michael Smith Abstract This article examines Korean surrealism—the avant‐garde movement most explicitly preoccupied with questions of the psyche and subjectification within an historical context of colonial unfreedom—through attention to the short‐lived journal Samsa munhak 三四文學 ( 34...

... 354 ing practitioner of Surrealism in the late 1920s, Takiguchi became a mentor to many young artists of the 1950s, acting as a bridge between prewar and postwar modernism. For Jikken Kb, he was the godfather who gave...

... 22:4  Fall 2014 910 This fascination with memory as it corresponds to time dovetails with the filmmaker’s interest in psychoanalysis as well as surrealism and European filmmakers (e.g...

... looks back, as a face of radical heterogeneity. That claim, in turn, calls into question the episteme of the eye, of distanced looking, which, Choe believes, reopens a space for otherness. The surreality of film representation occa- sions...

... of the wall. A further methodological analysis of the visual approach of Xu’s work, however, may tell us that it is no more than a surreal visual effect—a grand tangible nihilism. With its outdoor working process, Ghosts Pounding the Wall resembles...

...: This is a surreal life game of thirty-­one days during which you experience work through your [blue] “bear” avatar. Your job is to roll a large ball. Avoiding holes and other obstacles, you must push the ball skillfully to the prescribed place. Your...

.... Taking a psychoanalytic approach to Yi Si-u's poetry published in 34 Literature , Smith proposes a new interpretation of Korean surrealism as a dialectical engagement with the colonial system of interpellation, a system that produced “happiness” as an affective system of control and oppression. Smith...

... and surreality, becomes a handy metaphor for condensing and simplifying complexity. Magic also appears widely in Latin American arts to contest against dom- inant imperialist modernity. As Ella Shohat and Robert Stam have noted, “Many...

... be reading this particular miniature landscape? At one level it speaks the totality of the nation in time and space; it offers to the viewer a surreal simultaneity of the architectural monuments of Chinese civilization over five millennia...

..., is possible at all in the immediate future. What will a decent life look like in this surreal age of frequent public health crises? In this afterword, rather than commenting on each individual article in this rich and timely collection, I would like to offer my recent thoughts on some of the broader questions...

... is the death of the social enemy. Every night more surreally exquisite scenes of torture and staging appear. This, he argues, presents the spectators, ourselves included, with the direct evidence that someone is in charge. Today, months before you read these splendid scholarly essays, here in the United...

... retreated into themselves, into their own bodies, into their own loneliness, into their own helplessness. Humans, perhaps for the first time, have placed themselves into a kind of surreality, have located themselves in a fiction film, have cast...

... each year on August 15 an interfaith service is held. There is something surreal about the Christian calendar and the dates of war atrocities. Was dropping the world’s first atomic bomb on the Day of the Transfiguration...

... of the American Novel, ed. Emory Elliot (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991),703. Greg Lockhart’s contention that the story is made up of straight “social realism” accounts of peasant life punctuated by “surreal dream sequences...

... together urban location and class immo- bility is not surprising, the extreme depiction, verging on the surreal, of the noodle hawker’s mental fragmentation and claustrophobic social and physi- cal environment carries the lm along...

... or unconventional language because their resistance has led them to a language that is unreal, surreal, and even fantasticalNowmany women poets who speak about their existence positions 11:3 Winter 2003 536...

... of the will” that appears twice in the chronology must have been taken from Execution of the Marquis de Sade’s Will, which was executed by Jean Benoît at the International Surrealism Exhibition in December 1959 and introduced in an essay of the same title...

... mind: she is a libertine with hundreds of women lovers who has the lucky chance to try a man as well. We know the surreal outcome: the king becomes preg- nant, and soon several of her consorts unexpectedly also become pregnant...

... a good future, calling her yeppŭn o˘ n n i or “beautiful older sister,” as she tugs the knot in place. It is a kind of surreal juxtaposition of responses and technologies — a “unique experience with the past,” to be sure...

...-appearance and indiscernibilities. Take the opening poem of the volume, ‘At the North Point Car Ferry,” which seems an exception in that it makes use of sequences of surreal images that turn the familiar sights...