Dialogic Continuity between Two Histories in Poetry of Cathy Song, Myung Mi Kim and Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
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Examining some contemporary Korean–American poems through the lens of dialogism provides key insights into the reconstruction of everyday encounters between two different histories because the texts discussed in more detail in this paper dialogically blend life experiences of speakers and grand historical systems together. Some Korean– American poets, or more specifically, Cathy Song, Myung Mi Kim and Jennifer Kwon Dobbs attempt to come into dialogic contact with official interpretations of historical events and weave together their various strands of life experiences. For Mikhail Bakhtin, who finds dialogic features in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels, poetry is a monologic or exclusionary genre in which the speaker constructs the poetic world as an authoritative voice. On the contrary to his antipoetic view, in poems of Song, Kim and Dobbs, the speakers add dialogic features to their poems and make narrative continuity between the past of their home country and the present of their newly settled country. Being situated in between, their dialogic texts destabilize the closedness of grand historical systems and unlock the potential to lead in unexpected directions. In other words, grand historical systems do not explain sufficiently the wide diversity of their life experiences, and their life experiences are not fettered by grand historical systems. Their poems transgress against authoritative or official interpretations of historical past and focus on the presentness of historical events.
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Examining some contemporary Korean–American poems through the lens of dialogism provides key insights into the reconstruction of everyday encounters between two different histories because the texts discussed in more detail in this paper dialogically blend life experiences of speakers and grand historical systems together. Some Korean– American poets, or more specifically, Cathy Song, Myung Mi Kim and Jennifer Kwon Dobbs attempt to come into dialogic contact with official interpretations of historical events and weave together their various strands of life experiences. For Mikhail Bakhtin, who finds dialogic features in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels, poetry is a monologic or exclusionary genre in which the speaker constructs the poetic world as an authoritative voice. On the contrary to his antipoetic view, in poems of Song, Kim and Dobbs, the speakers add dialogic features to their poems and make narrative continuity between the past of their home country and the present of their newly settled country. Being situated in between, their dialogic texts destabilize the closedness of grand historical systems and unlock the potential to lead in unexpected directions. In other words, grand historical systems do not explain sufficiently the wide diversity of their life experiences, and their life experiences are not fettered by grand historical systems. Their poems transgress against authoritative or official interpretations of historical past and focus on the presentness of historical events.
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