Presented By: Poetry and Poetics Workshop
"Indigestible over days and days”: Situating Transliteration in Dictée and Commons - James Kiselik (PhD student, English)
Poetry and Poetics Workshop
The Poetry & Poetics Workshop invites you to join us for an upcoming workshop:
"Indigestible over days and days”: Situating Transliteration in Dictée and Commons
James Kiselik (PhD student, English)
3154 Angell Hall
Friday, March 29th, 2024
11am - 12:30pm
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP here to receive the pre-circulated paper via email.
Paper will be circulated two weeks prior to the workshop.
Abstract: I develop an account of transliteration that engenders the cross-fertilization of translingual writing and historiography in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE (1982) and Myung Mi Kim’s COMMONS (2002). Transliteration, I argue, is a formal relation that foregrounds how different dimensions of text (e.g., sound, sense) can each be transparent or opaque to various degrees; such partial opacity makes visible what some readers cannot understand. I propose a transliterative reading method attuned to historical sites where systems of unevenly visible meaning interact and ramify. My goal is to inquire into the mutual inflections in these works between Korean-English transliterations and a modern Korean historiographical system that has the structure of a transliteration. Reading DICTEE, I trace the translingual resonances of a single transliterated word (“demo”) to show how this term is retroactively established as central to the historiographical system. Reading the transliterations in COMMONS, I propose an explanation for the thirty-nine conspicuous three-digit numbers that have bewildered the poem’s critics for over two decades: the aforementioned historiographical system has been revised to further privilege transliteration’s opacities in response to the harms of transparent nationalist histories.
The Poetry & Poetics Workshop is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop committed to providing a forum in which professors and graduate students can exchange works-in-progress and explore recent work in the fields of poetry, poetics, and lyric theory. For more information, including upcoming events, please visit our website. Please email Marianna Hagler (mhagler@umich.edu) or Maya Day (mayaday@umich.edu) with any questions.
"Indigestible over days and days”: Situating Transliteration in Dictée and Commons
James Kiselik (PhD student, English)
3154 Angell Hall
Friday, March 29th, 2024
11am - 12:30pm
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP here to receive the pre-circulated paper via email.
Paper will be circulated two weeks prior to the workshop.
Abstract: I develop an account of transliteration that engenders the cross-fertilization of translingual writing and historiography in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE (1982) and Myung Mi Kim’s COMMONS (2002). Transliteration, I argue, is a formal relation that foregrounds how different dimensions of text (e.g., sound, sense) can each be transparent or opaque to various degrees; such partial opacity makes visible what some readers cannot understand. I propose a transliterative reading method attuned to historical sites where systems of unevenly visible meaning interact and ramify. My goal is to inquire into the mutual inflections in these works between Korean-English transliterations and a modern Korean historiographical system that has the structure of a transliteration. Reading DICTEE, I trace the translingual resonances of a single transliterated word (“demo”) to show how this term is retroactively established as central to the historiographical system. Reading the transliterations in COMMONS, I propose an explanation for the thirty-nine conspicuous three-digit numbers that have bewildered the poem’s critics for over two decades: the aforementioned historiographical system has been revised to further privilege transliteration’s opacities in response to the harms of transparent nationalist histories.
The Poetry & Poetics Workshop is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop committed to providing a forum in which professors and graduate students can exchange works-in-progress and explore recent work in the fields of poetry, poetics, and lyric theory. For more information, including upcoming events, please visit our website. Please email Marianna Hagler (mhagler@umich.edu) or Maya Day (mayaday@umich.edu) with any questions.
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