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Death’s Traffic Light Blinks Red

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Death’s Traffic Light Blinks Red
Article
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/10/20/deaths-traffic-light-blinks-red/
Journal
The Paris Review
Issued Date
October 20, 2020
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
New York
Book
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Writer
Choi Seung-ja

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  • Choi Seung-ja
  • Birth : 1952 ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Seung-ja
  • Family Name : Choi
  • Korean Name : 최승자
  • ISNI : 0000000078791755
  • Works : 7
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Choi Seungja is one of the most influential feminist poets in South Korea. Born in 1952, Choi emerged as a poet during the eighties, a turbulent and violent decade that saw nationwide democracy movements against the authoritarian government. During that era, South Korean poets were predominantly populist, writing “people’s poetry” that protested authoritarian rule. These poets were also mostly men. But during that time, a new wave of feminist poets emerged, such as Kim Hyesoon, Ko Jung-hee, Kim Seung-hee, and Choi herself. When Choi first started publishing in 1979, her provocative poetry was dismissed by the male literary establishment who expected women to write quiet, domestic poems. As the translator and poet Don Mee Choi writes in the anthology Anxiety of Words, Choi’s language and content were “attacked for being too rough and vulgar for a female poet.”

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