The Divided Self, Body, and Country: Symbols and Imageries in the Poems of Myung Mi Kim and Suji Kwock Kim
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Myung Mi Kim and Suji Kwock Kim are dealing with Korea and the Korean War as symbols and imageries as well as social, political, and personal themes. Suji Kwock Kim looks like being traditionalist whereas Myung Mi Kim can be viewed as an experimentalist and Language poet. At some point, they both negotiate different cultures and languages through their own Korean American heritage. Writing as a Korean American woman first seems to be a kind of restrictive experiences for a poet like Cathy Song; however, in the poems of Myung Mi Kim and Suji Kwock Kim these seemingly disadvantageous aspects become overwhelming equipments for their searches for the self, body, and country divided between America and Korea. Utilizing their ethnicity and gender, they voice different views of Korea and the Korean War. Myung Mi Kim’s Korean nationality and the Korean War come from her keen political awareness and rather leftist politic, even though she does not belong to anywhere, America, North, or South Korea. Contrary to Myung Mi Kim, Suji Kwock Kim’s Korea is somewhat safe and traditional while their depictions of the Korean War are quite similar, in that they both describe this war as loss and lack to the people of Korea. Eventually their views on the Korean War are imbued with their attitudes towards modern Korea and Korean history. Along with a psychoanalytic bent to explore their poems, theories of gender are also employed to delve into their lines; in these processes finally I examine these two poets’ conceptions of the "chasm" from the divided country, Korea, and Korean culture.
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Myung Mi Kim and Suji Kwock Kim are dealing with Korea and the Korean War as symbols and imageries as well as social, political, and personal themes. Suji Kwock Kim looks like being traditionalist whereas Myung Mi Kim can be viewed as an experimentalist and Language poet. At some point, they both negotiate different cultures and languages through their own Korean American heritage. Writing as a Korean American woman first seems to be a kind of restrictive experiences for a poet like Cathy Song; however, in the poems of Myung Mi Kim and Suji Kwock Kim these seemingly disadvantageous aspects become overwhelming equipments for their searches for the self, body, and country divided between America and Korea. Utilizing their ethnicity and gender, they voice different views of Korea and the Korean War. Myung Mi Kim’s Korean nationality and the Korean War come from her keen political awareness and rather leftist politic, even though she does not belong to anywhere, America, North, or South Korea. Contrary to Myung Mi Kim, Suji Kwock Kim’s Korea is somewhat safe and traditional while their depictions of the Korean War are quite similar, in that they both describe this war as loss and lack to the people of Korea. Eventually their views on the Korean War are imbued with their attitudes towards modern Korea and Korean history. Along with a psychoanalytic bent to explore their poems, theories of gender are also employed to delve into their lines; in these processes finally I examine these two poets’ conceptions of the "chasm" from the divided country, Korea, and Korean culture.
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