Biography
My dissertation, entitled Entangled Ecologies of the Everyday, traces the corporeal and ecological effects of primitive accumulation on the rural regions of the Japanese Empire as represented in Korean and Japanese literature of the 1920s and 1930s. I argue that rural proletarian literature employs a mode of ecological materialism and reveals the sustainability/unsustainability of laborers relations with the land under colonial-capitalism. I situate the interrelations of labor, gender, and nature, what I refer to as ecological entanglements, at the center of my textual analysis. Each chapter examines how these interrelations coevolve in the sectors of sericulture, forestry, mining, and fisheries.