What is it about?
This is Chapter 3 in my first research monograph, entitled New Forms of Self-Narration: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). This chapter is a companion to the previous one, since Lee and Park come from the very same village in North Korea and their life-writing projects capitalize on the notion of a North Korean girl who escapes, travels to China and onto a Global North final destination. In Park's case, becoming a celebrity in her own right, a public face and active produser on/of social media, most notably Instagram.
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Why is it important?
The remediation/curation of Park’s self on social media platforms—but also offline—is assessed to gauge the impact those may have had in crafting a public persona, a celebrity activist, as she has been enrolled in causes beyond Korean activism, namely feminism.
Perspectives
Though Park fits the girl trope of humanitarian discourse, she strives to move past the category of victim and redefine herself as a survivor. In this she is line with many other young women activists these days, especially the 6 explored in the present book.
Dr Ana Belén Martínez García
Universidad de Navarra
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This page is a summary of: Yeonmi Park: North Korean Activist and Instagram Celebrity, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46420-2_4.
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