Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition

Sora Y. Han

Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Duke University Press
Country
United States
Published
22 March 2024
Pages
280
ISBN
9781478020974

Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition

Sora Y. Han

In March 2020, Sora Y. Han learned her father was dying of cancer just as the COVID-19 pandemic arrived on California shores. These two events lead Han to introspection: "Who have I been writing to?" and "Who have I been writing for?" In observance of the 49 days of mourning in Buddhist tradition, answers come in the form of mu - no thing, nothingness. Han's poetic meditations on freedom struggle come alive in the empty spaces between words, letters, and pictograms spanning her many languages-English, Korean, Chinese, jazz, law, and poetry. Transliterating and dystranslating the writing of Fred Moten, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Jacques Lacan, Frantz Fanon, and others through the Korean alphabet, Han weaves the DMZ, Betty's Case, the Thirteenth Amendment, Afro-pessimism, and psychoanalytic desire together into the open field of Bay Area radicalism. Mu is both a loving homage to and playful subversion of political inheritances and the unsayable beyond law.

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