Pioneers of the Times: North Korea’s Claim to Contemporaneity circa 1989

• Authors: Douglas Gabriel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article examines the discourse and visual culture surrounding the Thirteenth World Festival of Youth and Students, which took place in Pyongyang in July 1989. I show how the visual ephemera, performances, and architectural monuments connected to the event served as a call to acknowledge the prevailing effects of the Cold War era at a historical moment widely heralded as marking a definitive thaw in Cold War tensions and the emergence of the so-called global contemporary period.

Keywords

EN

Cold War; Council of European National Youth Committees (CENYC); Global contemporary; Lim Su-kyung; North Korea; World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY); World Festival of Youth and Students.

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia
• Year: 2017
• Volume: Tom 2
• Pages: 44-65

Dates

published

2017-12-01

Contributors

author

Douglas Gabriel

• Northwestern University.

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