This article explores the relationship between contemporary postcolonial criticism and the notion of the “literary.” I argue that postcolonial criticism is currently undergoing a crisis—the signs of which emerge in treatments ...

해마다 수천 명의 해외 입양인들이 보통 단기 방문으로 한국을 찾고 있으며, 약 이백 명 정도가 한국에 영구적으로 정착했다. 본 논문에서는 스웨덴 입양인인 아스트리드 트롯찌의 자서전 『피는 물보다 진하다』(Blod är tjockare än vatten, 1996)에 담겨 있는 귀환의 개념을 면밀히 살펴보고자 한다. 트롯찌의 작품은 입양인이 자신의 뿌리인 한국으로 돌아가는 가는 것이 근본적으로 ...

In this article, I want to present and discuss some issues of translation that Walter Benjamin addresses in his essay “The Task of the Translator,” and moreover draw some connections to his earlier essay “On Language as ...

In recent academic scholarship, one finds a growing interest in collective as well as individual forms of memory. At the same time, the notion of history has become more problematic. In this article, I want to discuss the ...

This article discusses Ameican photographer Larry Sultan’s work Pictures from Home (1992). Sultan portrays his own family and, in a wider sense, the myth of the American post-war family. In attempting to distinguish the ...

This article focuses on the Korean-born Danish adoptee poet Maja Lee Langvad’s work Find Holger Danske (2006), and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s notion of minor literature. Maja Lee Langvad’s book is an ironic-experimental ...

In this article, I explore the notion of post-migrant subjectivity via critical discussion of Sigmund Freud’s well-known but also controversial essay “Mourning and Melancholia,” and Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club. In ...

In the book A Singular Modernity, Fredric Jameson laments the inability in contemporary critical discourse to think through social formations via the notion of totality. Jameson argues that the cultural logic of globalization ...

In this article, we want to focus on Francis Fukuyama’s famous End-of-History thesis and more particularly his inspiration from the Hegelian scholar Alexandre Kojève. Discussing Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, we argue that ...

This article focuses on the notion of appropriation in Richard Prince’s controversial work Cowboys (1980-2002). In the Cowboys series, Prince appropriates the iconic Marlboro Man adverts－by re-photographing, cropping and ...