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245 10 a| Brutal fantasies :b| imagining North Korea in the long Cold War /c| Christine Kim.;

264 1 a| Durham :b| Duke University Press,c| 2025.;

300 a| xii, 163 pages ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Cultural fantasies of the inhuman -- Dystopic speculation : stylizing transpacific villains -- The inhuman figure of human rights : life writing, testimonies, and Escape from Camp 14 -- Imperial diasporas : South Korean diasporic exceptionalism, North Korean terror, and How I became a North Korean -- Situating North Korea within socialist lifeworlds.;

520 a| "Brutal Fantasies examines everyday representations and imaginings of North Korea within post-Cold War era scholarly and popular thought. Drawing on defectors' life writings, media representations, films, and fiction from the last two decades, Christine Kim analyzes powerful affective legacies of cultural fantasies of North Korea. Arguing that understandings of North Korea and diasporic Asia are tied to histories of imperialist expansion, she critiques global knowings of North Korea that work to normalize a post-Cold War order, drawing on the critical energies of Global South projects. In doing so, she aims to resituate power relations that structure North Korea and North America to better comprehend how US imperialism and Cold War logics continue to inform global imaginaries, diasporic relations, and conceptions of the human"-- Provided by publisher.;

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Brutal fantasies : imagining North Korea in the long Cold War / Christine Kim.

Author/creator	Kim, Christine, 1973- author.
Format	Book
Publication	Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	xii, 163 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects	Other (Philosophy) in literature. Other (Philosophy) in motion pictures. Korea (North)--Foreign public opinion. Korea (North)--In popular culture. Korea (North)--Social conditions. --20th century. Korea (North)--Politics and government. --1948-1994.

Contents	Cultural fantasies of the inhuman -- Dystopic speculation : stylizing transpacific villains -- The inhuman figure of human rights : life writing, testimonies, and Escape from Camp 14 -- Imperial diasporas : South Korean diasporic exceptionalism, North Korean terror, and How I became a North Korean -- Situating North Korea within socialist lifeworlds.
Abstract	"Brutal Fantasies examines everyday representations and imaginings of North Korea within post-Cold War era scholarly and popular thought. Drawing on defectors' life writings, media representations, films, and fiction from the last two decades, Christine Kim analyzes powerful affective legacies of cultural fantasies of North Korea. Arguing that understandings of North Korea and diasporic Asia are tied to histories of imperialist expansion, she critiques global knowings of North Korea that work to normalize a post-Cold War order, drawing on the critical energies of Global South projects. In doing so, she aims to resituate power relations that structure North Korea and North America to better comprehend how US imperialism and Cold War logics continue to inform global imaginaries, diasporic relations, and conceptions of the human"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Kim, Christine, 1973- Brutal fantasies Durham : Duke University Press, 2025 9781478061229
LCCN	2025004860
ISBN	9781478032397
ISBN	1478032391 paperback
ISBN	9781478029021 hardcover
ISBN	1478029021 hardcover
ISBN	ebook

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