Communal Mourning and Contemporary Elegy in Korean Poetry
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Abstract An extended period of public mourning followed the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster, one South Korea’s largest maritime disasters which resulted in over three hundred passenger deaths. This article examines leading contemporary Korean poet Kim Hyesoon’s narration collective trauma her elegy for dead, Chugŭmŭi chasajŏn (Autobiography Death, 2016). Drawing on oral tradition, particularly songs female shamans, facilitates a radical empathy with speaker enters physical bodies dead and invokes their spirits. Kim’s polyvocal traverses historical memory to excavate these deaths: Autobiography Death connects recent loss life involved sinking structural injustice experienced by dissidents who were killed during democratization movement. I argue that places sphere engaging embodied individuals voice transhistorical grief community.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of world literature
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2405-6480', '2405-6472']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00801005