DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi PRE-ORDER
Published 3rd April 2025. Available for pre-order.
In DMZ Colony's weave of words, artfully used oral history and typographic experimentation, increasingly words give way to her father's documentary photos from the time of General Park Chung Hee's brutal putsch and dictatorship, a regime supported by the USA. DMZ Colony expresses mourning, a resistance to empire, and a hope in humankind. two review quotes: "Here that awareness is embodied in disjointed and dreamlike dialogue and the coming together of both languages in one fractured twin-self… The result is a book for our age, a radical (in that it builds from the roots out) philosophy, a new angel of history backing away slowly from the wreck of the century.' Sasha Dugdale, PN Review "Virtuosic in its range and empathy, this is a book that shifts the reader's understanding of historical narrative from one of war to one of flight.' Publishers Weekly, starred review
In DMZ Colony's weave of words, artfully used oral history and typographic experimentation, increasingly words give way to her father's documentary photos from the time of General Park Chung Hee's brutal putsch and dictatorship, a regime supported by the USA. DMZ Colony expresses mourning, a resistance to empire, and a hope in humankind. two review quotes: "Here that awareness is embodied in disjointed and dreamlike dialogue and the coming together of both languages in one fractured twin-self… The result is a book for our age, a radical (in that it builds from the roots out) philosophy, a new angel of history backing away slowly from the wreck of the century.' Sasha Dugdale, PN Review "Virtuosic in its range and empathy, this is a book that shifts the reader's understanding of historical narrative from one of war to one of flight.' Publishers Weekly, starred review
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