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Hwabyung Fragments
- Author(s):
- Seo-Young Chu (see profile)
- Date:
- 2006
- Group(s):
- Arts and Culture for Global Development, Poetics and Poetry
- Subject(s):
- Korea, Koreans--Social life and customs, Poetry, Creative writing, Asian Americans
- Item Type:
- Poetry
- Tag(s):
- Korean American, dmz, han, postmemory, North Korea, Korean culture, Asian American
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/nz9r-dq88
- Abstract:
- In "Hwabyung Fragments" the Korean American poet Seo-Young Chu uses pieces of Korean mythology, family lore, DMZ iconography, speculative lyricism, allusions to Plato's Symposium (the figure of one's missing other half), and allusions to chimerism, mosaicism, and twinning to explore generational trauma, Korean division, postmemory han, the hwabyung that ended her grandfather's life. She also uses the trope of apostrophe as a way of "communicating" with lost family members in North Korea whom she has never met.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Magazine section
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 1 year ago
- License:
- Attribution
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