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Korea in World History

Korea in World History 166 The Jo urnal of Korean Studies In his postscript, the cl earest section of this dense book and which, l ike many postscripts, might have served better as a preface, Hughes reiterates his aim of "l ocat[ing] l iterary texts as part and parce l of a l iterary modernity" (p. 20 5 ) and conc l udes with an ana l ysis of Yim Oksang's 198 7 painting A Questionable Death ( Oimunsa). A naked headl ess man, l eaving not on l y his sku ll but a book cov­ ered with barbed wire behind, wal ks north. Is he headed toward the DMZ and North Korea? Or perhaps, in my own reading, headed perhaps across the Ya l u into China and out of the peninsu l a entire l y? We can identify what l ies ahead no more than can the headl ess man, "visib l e" in one register (water, mountains) but "invisib l e" in another (unidentified nation-states wrenched out of l andscape). Hughes's Literature and Film in Cold War Korea ends with not a Co l d War novel or fi l m, but instead with a contemporary painting depicting http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Korean Studies Duke University Press

Korea in World History

Yoon, Sun-Hee
Journal of Korean Studies , Volume 18 (1) – Mar 13, 2013
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Copyright © 2013 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
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0731-1613
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2158-1665
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10.1353/jks.2013.0009
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166 The Jo urnal of Korean Studies In his postscript, the cl earest section of this dense book and which, l ike many postscripts, might have served better as a preface, Hughes reiterates his aim of "l ocat[ing] l iterary texts as part and parce l of a l iterary modernity" (p. 20 5 ) and conc l udes with an ana l ysis of Yim Oksang's 198 7 painting A Questionable Death ( Oimunsa). A naked headl ess man, l eaving not on l y his sku ll but a book cov­ ered with barbed wire behind, wal ks north. Is he headed toward the DMZ and North Korea? Or perhaps, in my own reading, headed perhaps across the Ya l u into China and out of the peninsu l a entire l y? We can identify what l ies ahead no more than can the headl ess man, "visib l e" in one register (water, mountains) but "invisib l e" in another (unidentified nation-states wrenched out of l andscape). Hughes's Literature and Film in Cold War Korea ends with not a Co l d War novel or fi l m, but instead with a contemporary painting depicting

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Published: Mar 13, 2013

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