Rituals of Decolonization: The Role of Inner-Migrant Intellectuals in North Korea, 1948-1967
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First Statement of Responsibility
Elli Sua Kim
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Duncan, John B.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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University of California, Los Angeles
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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180
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Lee, Namhee; Notehelfer, Fred G.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-20216-8
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
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Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Body granting the degree
University of California, Los Angeles
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2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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History
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Social sciences;Cultural cold war;Decolonization;Inner-migrant intellectual;North korea;Postcolonialism;Socialism