[KS] Gender and Justice in Korean Crime Fiction Conference

[Jooyeon Rhee]

*The 3rd International Conference of Popular Narratives and Media Studies*


"Divine Violence and Noble Rage: Gender and Justice in Korean Crime
Fiction"


*April 10-11, Institute for Korean Studies, Pennsylvania State University
(hybrid)*


*Keynote Speakers *

Caroline Reitz, CUNY Graduate Center

Ted Hughes, Columbia University


*A Special Lecture on Korean Literature *Young-jun Lee, Director of the
Research Institute for Korean Studies


*Conference Description*

In recent years, Korean crime narratives—crime fiction and crime-themed TV
dramas, films, and webtoons—have attracted significant attention from
readers, audiences, and scholars both within Korea and internationally. In
response to this growing popularity and the increasing scholarly
interest in the historical, social, and aesthetic dimensions of Korean
crime narratives, the PSU-SKKU Consortium on Korean Popular Narratives and
Media is hosting its third international conference, aiming to explore
cultural representations of state, institutional, political, and everyday
violence against socially vulnerable and marginalized groups in both
premodern and modern Korean crime fiction. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s
concept of law-annihilating “divine violence,” which confronts

the injustice embedded in legal systems, as well as feminist scholarship on
gender and justice in modern crime narratives, this conference invites
papers that examine the aesthetic and political potential of crime
narratives in expressing the precarity of the marginalized and the meaning
of justice.


Please See the attached CFP for details including submission instructions.


Jooyeon Rhee, Pennsylvania State University
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