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Postcoloniality and Imagining the Post-human: Bok Geo-il's In Search of an Epitaph and Djuna's The Pacific Continental Express | LIST

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  • Bok Geo-il
  • Birth : 1946 ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Geo-il
  • Family Name : Bok
  • Korean Name : 복거일
  • ISNI : 0000000048792861
  • Works : 5
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Postcoloniality and Imagining the Post-human: Bok Geo-il's In Search of an Epitaph and Djuna's The Pacific Continental Express   By Kim Dongshik on Nov 02 2014 00:26:58 Vol.20 Summer 2013 Throughout the modernization of Korea, there was little time for the fantastical imaginings that guided science fiction, yet despite prejudice and misunderstanding, the genre broke boundaries during the dawn of the information age through two influential writers.     The Status of Sci-Fi in Korea Gongsang (daydreaming). Until the 1990s, that particular word was the prefix of the Korean expression for the English term, “science fiction.” Of course, it is clearly untrue that Koreans are somehow culturally predisposed to dislike or think less of science fiction. However, for some time, it was true that science fiction works were considered fantastic stories, out of daydreams. For the past 100 years, Koreans have experienced a string of dramatic changes: Japanese colonization, subsequent liberation, civil war, division of the country, dictatorship, democratization, and industrialization. Considering the harsh realities that Koreans were facing, it is easy to see how stories with robots, space travel, clones, cyborgs, and time-travel seemed like far-off daydreams, lacking a foundation in reality. The Korean people had to soldier on through difficult challenges whose solutions had no connection to the world created by science fiction. Because of these challenges, it was understandably difficult for Koreans to seriously consider and reflect on the effect of science and technology on their lives.

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