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All subsequent translations from Mwōnya [What?] are taken from this volume, to which page numbers refer except as otherwise noted. Quotations from other collections have been rendered by You-me Park
Param punūn nal
(1987)
For my assessment of the poem, see my essay " 'T'ongil sidae'-ūi han'guk munhak
Ōnū nal-ūi norae
(1991)
Si-wa riōlijūm-e kwanhan tansang
Are you what? what?" which, though hardly idiomatic, would have the advantage of foregrounding the crucial word
1-2, second stanza, in ibid
Ajik kaji anhūn kil
but this Latinate English word clearly would not do for the almost scatological myōnūrimitsikkae
I went strolling down Bell Street in Taegu / then drank a bottle of schnapps I'd / bought
(1986)
Chōnwōn sip'yōn (Seoul: Minūm-sa
positions 8:2 Fall 2000 to the proletarian and/or national liberationist cause. The success of mass protest movements in June 1987 meant both a further stimulus to these tendencies initially and a necessity for fundamental rethinking in the longer run. The geopolitical transformations of 1989â1991 coincided with this domestic conjuncture, producing a rather abrupt change in the atmosphere of the literary world as well. Not only the more rigid doctrines and sloganeering works but any concern for social and political reality as such was often rejected or derided. The vogue for âZen poemsâ in the early 1990s can be seen as a reï¬ection of this atmosphere. While the merits of individual productions naturally vary, both the mystical and the antinaturalistic elements in Zen provided a ï¬t antidote to, and in some cases an easy escape from, the militant politics and the various kinds of âârealismââ of the 1980s. It is important to note, however, that there indeed was more than one kind of realism. Most of the works extolled by the more extremist critics hardly diverged from the socialist realism of the ofï¬cial Soviet school, yet a more complex critical discourse of earlier decades also persisted, adopting the Lukácsian
positions asia critique – Duke University Press
Published: Sep 1, 2000
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