[KS] Publication Announcement: On Korean Mountain Commons

[John Eperjesi]

Thought some folks might be interested in this paper on mountains, tigers,
diaspora, deep time, and the commons in Gary Pak's "A Ricepaper Airplane."

https://academic.oup.com/isle/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/isle/isx049/4565743

In the novel, Uncle Sung Wha is an anti-colonial guerrilla on the run from
the Japanese. He migrates to Hawaii where he works on a sugar plantation
and becomes a labor organizer. On his deathbed he tells wondrous stories of
the mountains of Korea. My hope is that a historically determinate,
culturally constructed vision of nature can help denaturalize the division
of the peninsula.

Thanks,
John
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