![]() ![]() There is nothing remarkable about Jiyoung’s story. ![]() It is fairly easy to summarise what Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is about: the psychiatric case study of a woman who has dissociative disorder whereby she “becomes” other women from time-to-time. Its strangeness, however, comes from the commonplace nature of the story it has to tell – that of sexism and misogyny so unspectacular that we sometimes forget to question them. ![]() Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is a strange novel. This novel is a timely read as we strive to find ways for women to have healthy and meaningful lives in a deeply depraved society. Published in Korean in 2016 when the #MeToo movement was relatively recent, it was translated into English by Jamie Chang in 2020, as #MeToo, no longer new, continues to yield stories that show the structural nature of sexism. Cho Nam-Joo’s Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 has been called “ the South Korean #MeToo bestseller“. ![]()
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