Kim Jiyoung, born 1982 = Palsip yi nyeon saeng Kim Jiywong / Cho Nam-joo ; translated by Jamie Chang.

  • Cho, Nam-ju, 1978-
Date:
2018
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

82-yŏnsaeng Kim Chi-yŏng. English

Description

"The runaway bestseller that helped launch Korea's new feminist movement, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 follows one woman's psychic deterioration in the face of rigid misogyny. In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul, Kim Jiyoung-a millennial "everywoman"-spends her days caring for her infant daughter. Her husband, however, worries over a strange symptom that has recently appeared: Jiyoung has begun to impersonate the voices of other women-dead and alive, both known and unknown to her. Truly, flawlessly, completely, she became that very person. As she plunges deeper into this psychosis, Jiyoung's concerned husband sends her to a psychiatrist, who listens to her narrate her own life story-from her birth to a family who expected a son, to elementary school teachers who policed girls' outfits, to male coworkers who installed hidden cameras in women's restrooms and posted the photos online. But can her doctor cure her, or even discover what truly ails her? Rendered in eerie prose, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 announces the arrival of a major international writer"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

London : Scribner, 2018.

Physical description

162 pages ; 22 cm

Notes

Selected for ourcollections by Clara Searle. Clara is a Guyanese Gibraltarian PhD researcher whose work explores diversity and representation within book publishing and western media. She was a Techne Racial Justice Placement Student at Wellcome Collection between September 2022 – February 2023 and selected this book as part of a larger list that aims to disrupt the racist and colonial tradition of collecting that exists historically within Wellcome’s library collections.

Language note

Translated from the Korean.

Type/Technique

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CBW.268
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781471184284
  • 1471184285