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Editor’s Introduction

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Editor’s Introduction

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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article-pdf/28/4/691/827804/0280691.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 02 April 2022 By fate positions 28.4 went to production just as the United States was recog- nizing — as if for the first time — that COVID- 19 lives in human hosts pass- ing the illness around. Just by circumstance, scholarly essays here showcase other intellectuals serving in desperate times. We Jung Yi’s “Redrawing the Division Lines? Surplus, Connectivity, and Remediation in the South Korean Webtoon Secretly, Greatly” takes up the webtoon, a genre founded in Korea and now widespread globally. The drama is complex, mutant, involving secret agents, double natures, absurdity, the thirty- eighth parallel, political hate and its inverse and is, Yi argues, generically speaking a co- mix; what used to be called “hybrid.” The essay shows the way Secretly, Greatly makes its characters interact, but Yi particularly focuses on explaining narrative, the society of the characters, in relation to the genre. Webtoons more than other mass mediated forms pull social elements into an activity Yi calls “digital positions 28:4 doi 10.1215/10679847-8606389 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article-pdf/28/4/691/827804/0280691.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 02 April 2022 positions 28:4 November 2020 692 reticulation,” which in Yi’s

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