Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4245-1246
Abstract
Asian Gothic, particularly in its Korean manifestation, both embodies and unsettles postmodernism as theorized by Fredric Jameson. While sharing postmodern characteristics such as fragmented temporality and commodification, Korean Gothic resists being dismissed as pastiche by demonstrating historical trauma, the grotesque, and forms of the sublime that revise Western-centered accounts of postmodernity. This article engages with Park Chan-kyong’s concept of “Asian Gothic” and uses Goedam as a popular cultural example. It argues that Korean Gothic functions as an aesthetic response to compressed modernity, generating a horizontal sublime through the interplay of terror, spiritual affect, and non-linear temporalities.
Recommended Citation
Kim, Eugene
(2026)
"Fredric Jameson in Asia: Interpreting Korean Gothic through Haunted Modernity,"
Kritika Kultura:
No.
50, Article 8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152X.2280
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss50/8
