Tag: korea

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+ basti, intizar husain, Japan, Kannani, world war i, world war ii, Yuasa Katsuei

The Transmission of Virulent Ideologies: Part II

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Last post, I wrote about the unease individuals feel when they study their own history and how they feel comfortable learning about this history of others because it removes their own actions from the equation. There, I focused on Zakir in Inzitar Husain’s Basti. Today, I want to continue that discussion; however, I want to shift it a little by looking at the ways that Yuasa Katsuei … Read More The Transmission of Virulent Ideologies: Part II

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+ comics, graphic memoir, graphic novels, keum suk gendry-kim, korea, the waiting

Hands in Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s “The Waiting”

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Over the past month, I have read two powerfully moving graphic novels about the separation of families during war. Miriam Katin’s We Are On Our Own focuses on Miram and her mother’s escape from the Nazis in Budapest during World War II. Along with Katin’s memoir, I read Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s The Waiting, a fictional story, based on Gendry-Kim’s mother and sister being separated during the Korean War, separated … Read More Hands in Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s “The Waiting”

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