Intersectional Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of IllegibilityA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Intersectional Incoherence stages an encounter between the critical discourse on intersectionality and texts produced by Korean subjects of the Japanese empire and their postwar descendants in Japan, known as Zainichi Koreans. Arguing for intersectionality as a reading method rather than strictly a tool of social analysis, Cindi Textor reads moments of illegibility and incoherent language in these texts as a product of the pressures on Zainichi Koreans and their literature to represent both Korean difference from and affinity with Japan. Rejecting linguistic norms and representational imperatives of identity categories, Textor instead demands that the reader grapple with the silent, absent, illegible, or unintelligible. Engaging with the incoherent, she argues, allows for a more ethical approach to texts, subjects, and communities that resist representation within existing paradigms. |
Contents
Literary History | 17 |
Gender Sexuality | 39 |
Kim Saryang and the World as Addressee | 59 |
Kim Sökpoms Korean in Japanese | 81 |
Disability Ethnicity | 100 |
Yi Yangjis Yuhi and the Embodied Subject in Transit | 119 |
What Was Zainichi Literature? Temporalities of Silence | 138 |
Global Zainichi Literature | 157 |
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