DMZ Colony
- 152 stránek
- 6 hodin čtení
A powerful work of cultural memory that recovers voices from Korea's heartbreakingly violent postcolonial history.
Don Mee Choi Knihy
Don Mee Choi je autorkou, jejíž díla se ponořila do složité historie a násilí Korejského poloostrova. Její básně prozkoumávají témata vykořenění, paměti a identity prostřednictvím silného, obrazného jazyka. Prostřednictvím své práce se Choi snaží odhalit nevyslovená traumata a kolektivní vzpomínky a nabízí čtenářům hluboký a provokativní pohled na historii.
Mirror Nation
- 152 stránek
- 6 hodin čtení
Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award-winning DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020). Much like Proust's madeleine, a spinning Mercedez Benz ring outside Choi's Berlin window prompts a memory of her father on the Glienicker Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, which in turn becomes catalyst for delving into the violent colonial and neocolonial contemporary history of South Korea, with particular attention to the horrors of the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980. Here, photographs, news footage, and cultural artifacts comingle with a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective. Inspired by W. G. Sebald and Walter Benjamin as well as Choi's DAAD Artists residency in Berlin, Mirror Nation is a sorrowful reflection on the ways in which a place can hold a 'magnetic field of memory,' proving that history doesn't merely repeat itself; history is ever present, chiming the hours in a chorus against empire. "