Impossible speech : the politics of representation in contemporary Korean literature and film
Christopher P. Hanscom
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | viii, 225 sider
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| Opplysninger | The return of the real in South Korean fiction -- Displacing the common sense of trauma: Han Kang's A boy is coming -- Fabricating the real: accounting for North Korea in escapee narratives and in fiction -- Disturbing sensibility: transgressing generic norms in norms in Castaway on the moon and I'm a cyborg, but that's OK. - "Common sense tells us that the politics of a work of art appears in its message. That message may appear via a formal device or in figural language, but the text is expected to make its message intelligible to the reader in a familiar form and in language that lies within the boundaries of what is ordinarily considered sayable. Yet wherever intelligibility is posited, assumed, or demanded, there is something relegated to unintelligibility. Impossible Speech finds that it is at these moments, relegated to the nonsensical and hence the nonpolitical, where we find the political gesture of art. The book aims to explore both the ways the work of art can undermine this demand for consensual meaning in its presentation of the limits of representation-in the "impossible speech" of those who are not asked, expected, or allowed to put forward their thoughts in discourse-and the grounds of legitimacy upon which a given statement or representation of speech is understood (or not understood) as "political." Following Rancière, the book makes the question of the limits of speakability coterminous with the question of politics, understood not as the organization of consensus but more fundamentally as the determination of the limits of speech-who is allowed to speak and what is allowed to be spoken. The main chapters focus on four central figures in recent fiction and film-the migrant laborer, the survivor of or witness to state violence, the North Korean refugee, and the socially excluded urban precariat"--
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| ISBN | 9780231208482. - 9780231208499
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