히스테리아
- Page
- 174
- Publication Date
- August 11, 2014
- ISBN
- 9788932026480
- Rights sold
- English(USA)
The scenes that make you want to scream, bite, and punch.
An invitation to the fundamental experience of life.
Having built a singular poetic world that is unlike any other in South Korea, Kim Yideum has garnered the attention of critics who called her work “the whole bodied pantomime, dripping in both words and blood, of a somnambulist witch, enchanting with sexy metaphors and incendiary imagination.” Her fifth and most famous poetry collection, Hysteria, often features those marginalized in Korean society, such as single mothers, sex workers, people with disabilities, divorcées, LGBTs, people with neurodivergence and/or psychosis, and the poor. The people who have been continuously pushed out from the center by tangible and intangible discrimination and social alienation opt to stay in the margins rather than vanish completely. Without anyone noticing, they gradually and unintentionally recover a certain system among themselves. This system is where Kim Yideum seeks hope—the site that bears the cultural unconsciousness of the center, as well as the critique of the narcissistic, inhumane status quo. The marginalized are about to burst their brimming potential in Kim Yideum’s poetry. The revolution would not be a vengeance but would happen all of a sudden with incredible vigor.