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Brutal Fantasies: Imagining North Korea in the Long Cold War [Kõva köide]

  • Formaat: Hardback, 176 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 572 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 05-Sep-2025
  • Kirjastus: Duke University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1478029021
  • ISBN-13: 9781478029021
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Brutal Fantasies: Imagining North Korea in the Long Cold War
  • Formaat: Hardback, 176 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 572 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 05-Sep-2025
  • Kirjastus: Duke University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1478029021
  • ISBN-13: 9781478029021
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"Brutal Fantasies examines everyday representations and imaginings of North Korea within post-Cold War era scholarly and popular thought. Drawing on defectors' life writings, media representations, films, and fiction from the last two decades, Christine Kim analyzes powerful affective legacies of cultural fantasies of North Korea. Arguing that understandings of North Korea and diasporic Asia are tied to histories of imperialist expansion, she critiques global knowings of North Korea that work to normalize a post-Cold War order, drawing on the critical energies of Global South projects. In doing so, she aims to resituate power relations that structure North Korea and North America to better comprehend how US imperialism and Cold War logics continue to inform global imaginaries, diasporic relations, and conceptions of the human"-- Provided by publisher.

Christine Kim examines how cultural representations of North Korea coalesce around Western fantasies of the inhuman.

In Brutal Fantasies, Christine Kim examines how Western cultural representations of North Korea depend on fantasies of the inhuman. Drawing on films, fiction, and defectors’ life writings from the last two decades, Kim analyzes how these representations construct North Korea as a site of brutality and inhumanity. She recasts these stories through Asian American and global Asian frameworks that move beyond common Cold War binaries to critique how US imperialism persists in global understandings of North Korea. Kim shows how human rights discourses simultaneously instrumentalize and dehumanize North Korea while demonstrating that North Korea is a site of contradiction that complicates Western interpretive constraints. She also explores the Korean diaspora’s complex relationship with North Korea and highlights the vulnerability and marginalization of diasporic subjects. In so doing, Kim pulls back the veil on prevailing cultural myths enshrouding North Korea, offering alternative ways of understanding its role in global and regional imaginaries.

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Christine Kims daring and inventive framework moves beyond problematic tendencies of binarism, polarization, and abandonment, rendering North Korea as both strangely familiar and intimately strange. Written with sophistication and clarity, Brutal Fantasies provides top-notch scholarship that re-presents its subjects - and importantly, the whole question about the complexity of diasporic Korean subjectivity - to readers in a considerably new light. - John Nguyet Erni, author of Law and Cultural Studies: A Critical Rearticulation of Human Rights

Through an analysis of Western fantasies and representations of North Korea as illiberal, brutal, and inhuman, Christine Kim importantly argues that the Cold War persists through the connected domains of knowledge production, global imaginaries, conceptions of the human, diasporic relations, and racial affects. Complicating and going beyond traditional area studies frameworks, Brutal Fantasies challenges us to think in more layered ways about diaspora by interrogating our presuppositions about the central or privileged diasporic subjects. - Jodi Kim, author of Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Cultural Fantasies of the Inhuman 1
1. Dystopic Speculation: Stylizing Transpacific Villains
2. The Inhuman Figure of Human Rights: Life Writing, Testimonies, and Escape
from Camp 14
3. Imperial Diaspora: South Korean Diasporic Exceptionalism, North Korean
Terror, and How I Became a North Korean
Epilogue. Situating North Korea Within Socialist Lifeworlds
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Christine Kim is Professor of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia and author of The Minor Intimacies of Race: Asian Publics in North America.