The Poetics of Fractured Memory: Missing History in the Works of Don Mee Choi

Abstract: In examining Korean-American poet and translator Don Mee Choi's KOR-US Trilogy, this essay looks to Hardly War, DMZ Colony, Mirror Nation to grapple with what I term a fractured poetics throughout Choi's collections, which is a poetics that refashions how we come to understand the histories and legacies of occupation, division, neocolonialism, and resistance in the context of South Korean-U.S. geopolitical relations.

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Taylor Roberts (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7717-5561)

Publication Details

Journal: Journal of Asian American Studies
Published: 2024-10-01
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2024.a953148
Primary Topic: Asian Culture and Media Studies
Type: article
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The Poetics of Fractured Memory: Missing History in the Works of Don Mee Choi

Taylor Roberts

Oct 1, 2024

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The Poetics of Fractured Memory: Missing History in the Works of Don Mee Choi

Taylor Roberts

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Journal of Asian American StudiesVol. 27(3)

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