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The Quarterly Changbi 202, Winter 2023

Abstract

The current issue’s Feature examines practical possibilities of care through literary works offering unusual forms of imagination for care, to critically examine discourses about care that have been expanded recently. Pointing out that the lack of care is related to a lack of democracy, deputy editor-in-chief of Changbi and literary critic Baik Ji-yeon explore possibilities of imagining citizenship in the performance of care. Baik first considers what conflicts in the process of care lead to citizenly virtues, by analyzing short stories by Kim Ae-ran and Geum Hee. Then, through the examination of a novel by Baek On-yu, she argues that the unique temporality and vulnerability experienced by the agents of care require a civic community as their solid background.