Re-Imagining North Korea in International Politics

This book examines the cultural dimensions of the international problem of North Korea through contemporary South Korean and Western popular imagination¿s engagement with North Korea. Building on works by feminist-postcolonial thinkers, in particular Trinh Minh-ha, Rey Chow and Gayatri Spivak, it examines novels, films, photography and memoirs for how they engage with issues of security, human rights, humanitarianism and political agency from an intercultural perspective.