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Tan-sil (Kims childhood nickname, later her pen name) struggled with the demonization of her mothers kisaeng (courtesan) status, and hoped that her own academic success would provide a way out of social stigmatization.1 After graduating fourth place from Chinmyöng Girls School in 1912, Kim moved to...
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| Published in: | Azalea (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 2022-01, Vol.15, p.353-390 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Tan-sil (Kims childhood nickname, later her pen name) struggled with the demonization of her mothers kisaeng (courtesan) status, and hoped that her own academic success would provide a way out of social stigmatization.1 After graduating fourth place from Chinmyöng Girls School in 1912, Kim moved to Japan and matriculated to Köjimachi Girls School in 1914, but a traumatic incident prevented her from completing her studies. The dreamscapes in "Cleft" ("Punsin") and "The South" ("Nambang") merge the spiritual with the physical, the exterior with the interior, the fruit with the body ("Passing by a farm dripping with tangerines, / she wears no frills"), trauma ("eyes tearful") with desire and hope ("But a song drifts to her ear"). [...]of the vehement erasure and exclusion of her work during and after her lifetime, Kim was largely forgotten by critics until scholars of Korean feminist literature (including Nam Ün-hye, Song Myöng-hui, and Sö Chöng-ja) began compiling and reevaluating her writings in the current century. |
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| ISSN: | 1939-6120 1944-6500 |