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Beautiful and Useless scrap

Beautiful and Useless

  • Author(s)

    Kim Min Jeong김민정

  • Translator(s)

  • Publisher

    Black OceanBlack Ocean

  • Country

    UNITED STATES

  • Language

    English(English)

  • Year Published

    2020

  • Category

    Poetry 시

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Contemporary 현대

Description 작품 소개

n Beautiful and Useless, Kim Min Jeong exposes the often funny and contradictory rifts that appear in the language of everyday circumstance. She uses slang, puns, cultural referents, and ‘naughty, unwomanly” language in order to challenge readers to expand their ideas of not only what a poem is, but also how women should speak. In this way Kim undermines patriarchal authority by displaying the absurd nature of gender expectations. But even larger than issues of gender, these poems reveal the illogical systems of power behind the apparent structures that govern the logic of everyday life. By making the source of these antagonisms and gender transgressions visible, they make them less powerful. This skillful translation from Soeun Seo and Jake Levine, brings the full playfulness and intelligence of Kim’s lyricism to English-language readers. Reference : Black Ocean. "Beautiful and Useless", https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/beautiful-and-useless. accessed 17 Oct 2023.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Kim Min Jeong

Kim Min Jeong김민정

n Beautiful and Useless, Kim Min Jeong exposes the often funny and contradictory rifts that appear in the language of everyday circumstance. She uses slang, puns, cultural referents, and ‘naughty, unwomanly” language in order to challenge readers to expand their ideas of not only what a poem is, but also how women should speak. In this way Kim undermines patriarchal authority by displaying the absurd nature of gender expectations. But even larger than issues of gender, these poems reveal the illogical systems of power behind the apparent structures that govern the logic of everyday life. By making the source of these antagonisms and gender transgressions visible, they make them less powerful. This skillful translation from Soeun Seo and Jake Levine, brings the full playfulness and intelligence of Kim’s lyricism to English-language readers. Reference : Black Ocean. "Beautiful and Useless", https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/beautiful-and-useless. accessed 17 Oct 2023.

Original Work 원작

Beautiful and Useless

아름답고 쓸모없기를

By Kim Min Jeong (김민정)

Munhakdongne Publishing Group (2016)

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