Mobility, Empire, and "Island" in Colonial Korea

• Main Author: Lee, Jinhyoung
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Saryang Kim; “Mulori Island; ” Pacific War; the Japanese Empire; politics of contretemps; terra incognita
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss40/25; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/2035/viewcontent/KK_2040_2C_202023_2025_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Critical_20Island_20Studies_20__20Lee.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

From a humanistic mobility studies perspective, this essay looks at Saryang Kim’s work, “Mulori Island” in the context of the Pacific War and explores the “island” produced by a ship’s mobility as it crosses temporal-spatial borders in the story. During the Pacific War, Japanese geopolitical ideolog...