Rituals of Decolonization: The Role of Inner-Migrant Intellectuals in North Korea, 1948-1967
[Thesis]
Elli Sua Kim
Duncan, John B.
University of California, Los Angeles
2014
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Committee members: Lee, Namhee; Notehelfer, Fred G.
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-20216-8
Ph.D.
East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of California, Los Angeles
2014
This study is an attempt to break away from chuch'e sasang (Juche; 'ideology of self-reliance') as the master framework to explain North Koran particularities, such as 'ethnocentric nationalism', 'authoritarianism', and 'dynastic rule'. Instead, I employ a historical framework of decolonization to examine how North Korean postcoloniality has been shaped within the multiple contexts of socialism, division, and the Cold War. While conceptualizing colonial-era intellectuals, who chose the North over the South after liberation as 'inner-migrant' intellectuals within the larger context of the ideologically divided intellectual communities of the Cold War era, I define 'inner-migrant' intellectuals as postcolonial socialist intelligentsias. They were at the heart of the state's decolonization project, which was to shape state policies and sociocultural articulations of national identity.
History
Social sciences;Cultural cold war;Decolonization;Inner-migrant intellectual;North korea;Postcolonialism;Socialism