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Embodied Ecologies of South Korean Ecofeminism

Kimberly Chung Assistant professor, Department of East Asian Studies, 9I制作厂免费

Embodied Ecologies explores how feminism and ecology are intimately connected through an intermedial examination of South Korean contemporary literature, media, and art. Studies about South Korean feminism have relied on a humanist lens. This research brings a new focus to the conversation by bridging the study of South Korean feminism with scholarship in the environmental humanities that incorporate posthuman, multispecies, and gender transformative frameworks. These female writers and artists have described the relationship between women and nature as intimate and intense, coexisting and interacting on a small scale within an organic system. The cross-cultural study of South Korean ecofeminist cultures鈥攊ts unique focus on the materiality of the female body at a microscopic scale鈥攚ill broaden the theorizations of the growing field of feminist ecocriticism and further expand its intersections with postcolonial ecocriticism, environmental media, and animal studies.

Reuniting with the Past: Unofficial Hand-Copied Novels from Socialist China

Ziwei Jiang, Master鈥檚 Student, Department of East Asian Studies, 9I制作厂免费

During China鈥檚 Cultural Revolution, a body of hand-copied manuscripts circulated outside state-sanctioned publishing channels. These works, commonly referred to as underground literature, have been analyzed through the lenses of political resistance, literary censorship, and historical memory. However, their position in the history of modern Chinese literature remains under-explored. Beyond their status as underground or invisible writing, these hand-copied manuscripts raise broader questions about authorship, aesthetics, and the politics of literary circulation in socialist China. This project examines how unofficial novels interacted with the Mao style, a concept proposed by literary critic Li Tuo. I argue that while these texts maintain a convivial relationship with the evolving artistic styles of the socialist era, they also push the boundaries with official literature by playing with socialist master plots. Through case studies of hand-copied entertainment novels, I explore how they juxtapose different temporalities within a single narrative at a time when Mao style endorsed forward-moving, proto-futurist storytelling.