A link preview card featuring a grainy black and white photograph of a lone soldier standing on a ridge, looking out over a landscape. Below the image, the headline reads: "31(21). The Security Prison: The Mirror Called “North Korea,” and the Politics of Controlled Memory." Underneath the headline is the subtitle: "Understanding Korea, One Story at a Time," followed by the source domain: "YOONJIWON.SUBSTACK.COM."
#NorthKorea and #SouthKorea needed each other’s shadow.
How leaders on both sides used the other to justify crackdowns, and how writers fought back with #memory. Includes a #booklist: #TheOldGarden, #TheSquare, #TheDwarf, #OurTwistedHero, #SpringDay and more.
#KoreanHistory #KoreanLiterature