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March 26, 2009, Thursday
Soo-Yeong Han
Amnesic Fissures—Sutured National Literature:
Postcoloniality and Bilingualism in Postwar Korea
130/132 Franklin Center 4:30-6:30 PMSoo-Yeong Han’s research spans modern Korean literature and culture broadly. He is currently working on issues of literary criticism, comparative perspectives on Korea and Japan relations, and of the complex linguistic identities of the postwar generation in South Korea. Professor Han’s publications in Korean include Dialectics of Literature and Reality; Understanding Korean Literature; The Novel and the Everyday; Reconsidering the Literature of Collaboration; The Linguistic Identity of Postwar Writers; Colonized Subjects and Linguistic Others. He is a professor of Korean literature at Dong-A University and a visiting scholar at the Asian-Pacific Studies Institute.
Affiliated Event:
Visit by Korean Film Director Yim Sunrye, April 20-21, Sponsored by the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute with support from AMES, Screen/Society, and Korea Forum.
Ms. Yim's April 2009 tour to the US is sponsored by APSI, the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art and Arthus M. Sackler Gallery, the Korea Society, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Southern California's Korean Studies Institute.
Contact cindy.carlson@duke.edu for more information. 919-668-2280. Q & A with Filmmaker Yim SunryeYim Sunrye is one of the most prominent feminist directors based in South Korea today. After training in film at Hanyang University and Université Paris VIII, she debuted with her short “Promenade in the Rain” (1994), which won prizes at Seoul, Clermont Ferrand, and Fribourg film festivals. Yim’s first feature “Three Friends” (1996) won the award for best Asian film at the first Pusan Film Festival and was featured in many festivals including Berlin, New Directors/New Films, Vancouver, Seattle, Melbourne and Karlovy Vary. Yim’s second feature, “Waikiki Brothers” (2001), also played at major international film festivals to critical acclaim. Yim directed a short for the human rights series "If You Were Me" (2003) and her third feature “Forever the Moment” (2008) was voted “Best Picture” at South Korea’s Blue Dragon Film Awards. Yim was recently featured in Hiroko Yamazaki’s documentary “Viva, Women Directors” (2008).