This issue includes ten articles that are grouped by four themes. The first group, which consists of Kevin Michael Smith's “The Promise of (Un)happiness: 34 Literature and Yi Si-u's Surrealist Poetics in Colonial Korea,” Ferran de Vargas's “Japanese New Left's Political Theories of Subjectivity and Ōshima Nagisa's Practice of Cinema,” So-Rim Lee's “Between Plastic Surgery and the Photographic Representation: Ji Yeo Undoes the Elusive Narrative of Transformation,” and Andrew Campana's “You Forbid Me to Walk: Yokota Hiroshi's Disability Poetics,” addresses the question of subjectivation. Kevin Michael Smith examines a literary surrealist movement in colonial Korea by exploring the dialectics of the colonial regime of (un)happiness and poetic forms of seeking utopian shards of freedom. Taking a psychoanalytic approach to Yi Si-u's poetry published in 34 Literature, Smith proposes a new interpretation of Korean surrealism as a dialectical engagement with the colonial system of interpellation, a system that produced “happiness”...
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Katsuya Hirano; Editor's Introduction. positions 1 November 2022; 30 (4): 645–652. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-9967279
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