Feb
2
Please join us for the next talk in our Emerging Scholars Series!
Vanessa Baker will be discussing a chapter in, “(Au): Speculative Rumors of Gold,” of a larger dissertation project entitled “Entangled Ecologies of the Everyday: Gender, Labor, and Nature in Rural Proletarian Literature of Japan and Korea.”
To RSVP please click this link: bit.ly/GFEEmergingBaker
This talk presents a working chapter, “(Au): Speculative Rumors of Gold,” of a larger dissertation project
entitled “Entangled Ecologies of the Everyday: Gender, Labor, and Nature in Rural Proletarian Literature
of Japan and Korea.” This chapter explores the literary depiction of the gold rush that swept the Korean
Peninsula following the world financial crash of 1929. The Korean gold rush was a moment in time when
authors traded pens for pickaxes to remake their lives as miners, prospectors, and smugglers. With a
critical focus on the sonic terrain of the gold mine, this chapter surveys how the mythic value of gold, in
combination with rumors of striking it rich, destabilize the material conditions that sustain everyday
interrelations between human and more-than-human lives.
Vanessa Baker will be discussing a chapter in, “(Au): Speculative Rumors of Gold,” of a larger dissertation project entitled “Entangled Ecologies of the Everyday: Gender, Labor, and Nature in Rural Proletarian Literature of Japan and Korea.”
To RSVP please click this link: bit.ly/GFEEmergingBaker
This talk presents a working chapter, “(Au): Speculative Rumors of Gold,” of a larger dissertation project
entitled “Entangled Ecologies of the Everyday: Gender, Labor, and Nature in Rural Proletarian Literature
of Japan and Korea.” This chapter explores the literary depiction of the gold rush that swept the Korean
Peninsula following the world financial crash of 1929. The Korean gold rush was a moment in time when
authors traded pens for pickaxes to remake their lives as miners, prospectors, and smugglers. With a
critical focus on the sonic terrain of the gold mine, this chapter surveys how the mythic value of gold, in
combination with rumors of striking it rich, destabilize the material conditions that sustain everyday
interrelations between human and more-than-human lives.