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The Wound and the Word: Examining the Literary Afterlife of Gwangju’s Trauma in Korean and
Korean Diaspora Literature
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Seo Yeon (Sophie) Yook
Access: Open access
- My project examines the enduring legacy of the May 1980 Gwangju Uprising and its reverberations across Korean and Korean American literature, memory, and identity. Framed by the unforeseen reemergence of martial law in South Korea on December 3, 2024–an event that eerily echoed the nation’s violent, authoritarian past–this project interrogates how historical trauma continues to resurface and be reflected in political reality and cultural narrative. Anchored in close readings of Han Kang’s Human Acts and E. J. Koh’s The Liberators, my project traces a literary and ethical journey mapped through the metaphor of the wound: “Bloodshed,” where pain erupts; “Inflammation,” where it lingers and deepens; and “Growth and Rebuilding," where healing becomes imaginable, if never quite complete. The first chapter positions Han’s polyphonic novel as a work of countermemory, a literary act of resistance against state-sanctioned silence that then demands active readerly participation. The second chapter turns to Koh’s diasporic narrative to consider how trauma migrates across generations and geographies through the medium of translation, revealing the subtler textures of inherited pain. Finally, the last chapter synthesizes theories of postmemory and reparative reading to intimate how the pair of texts move beyond trauma’s paralysis, imagining pathways toward healing, remembrance, and collective renewal. Ultimately, I contend that literature offers a vital site for rearticulating and re-envisioning suppressed histories, particularly in the wake of political repression and cultural amnesia. In returning to Gwangju as a living, aching wound, this project engages in the ethical labor of remembrance and the hopeful, reparative task of repair. It affirms narrative as both vessel and balm, as a means of bearing pain and of gesturing toward the possibility of healing across time, space, language, and community.
“My Bright Whatever”: A Scholar’s Life in Letters This record is embargoed.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Carolina Weatherall
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Superego: Notes on 21st Century Celebrity This record is embargoed.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Emma Kilbride
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A Multi-Dimensional, Computational Analysis of Ultrasound-Induced Negative Phonotactic
Behavior in the Mediterranean Field Cricket Gryllus bimaculatus Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Ryan Minje Kang
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Associative color learning and foraging preferences of syrphid flies (Eristalis spp.) in an island plant-pollinator network Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Whitt Dodge
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Shit Happens to Pretty Girls This record is embargoed.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Ella Jones
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Polemics in the Pale: The Jewish National Question as a Proxy Debate in Revolutionary Russian Politics
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Michael Sherman Gordon
Access: Open access
- Polemics in the Pale: The Jewish National Question as a Proxy Debate in Revolutionary Russian Politics examines the Bolshevik Party's debates over the Jewish National Question. This thesis tracks the evolution of the arguments surrounding Jewish national status through the Bolsheviks' break with the Jewish Labor Bund at the 1903 RSDLP Congress, the Soviet Union's schemes to create Jewish agricultural colonies in Ukraine, and the Soviet decision to establish the Jewish Autonomous Region in Birobidzhan in Siberia. Ultimately, Polemics in the Pale argues that the Bolshevik main interest in discussing the Jewish national question was not to find a genuine theoretical conception of the nation compatible with Social Democracy but instead was to utilize it as a cipher for more pressing political issues: party organization and state-building.
Investigating the Role of Toll-7 Protein in the Developing Peripheral Nervous System of Gryllus bimaculatus Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Kyla Gary
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The Role of Temperament and Parental Reflective Functioning in Toddlers' Emotion Regulation and Behavior Problems Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Julia Ann DeLuca
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Weather and Female Age Affect Reproductive Tradeoffs in Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) Incubation Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Oscar Koziol Nigam
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