Presented By: Nam Center for Korean Studies
Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series | Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Korea: Translating Blackness Across the Pacific
Jang Wook Huh, Assistant Professor, American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
In 1913 the renowned novelist Yi Kwang-su adapted Japanese translations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In this work Yi borrows the language of the Japanese colonizer and presents US slavery as a symbolic form of the colonial condition in Korea. But while creating a sympathetic connection between the enslaved and the colonized, Yi refuses to identify Koreans with African Americans as a means of counteracting the colonized’s own subaltern status. This talk explores the entanglements between U.S. sentimentalism, Japanese colonialism, and Korean nationalism in order to define the promises and liabilities of translating blackness in a transpacific context.
Jang Wook Huh is Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He is currently working on a book that examines the literary connections between black liberation struggles in the U.S. and anticolonial movements in Korea during the Japanese and American occupations.
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Jang Wook Huh is Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington. He is currently working on a book that examines the literary connections between black liberation struggles in the U.S. and anticolonial movements in Korea during the Japanese and American occupations.
If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
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