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"Fracturing the Space of the Real": Deriving a Korean Queer Theory from the Shamanic Feminist Poetics of Kim Hyesoon

Chapman University Digital Commons May 1, 2026 Amber Lee

This thesis derives a Korean queer theory from the shamanic feminist poetics of Kim Hyesoon, arguing that her theorization of Korean indigenous spirituality [musok] and the shaman song "Abandoned Princess Baridegi" constitutes a counter-epistemological framework capable of articulating queer possibility outside the ideological constraints of Western critical discourse. Drawing on the three...