Originless Fantasy is a 600-page opus written by fourteen authors who interrogate feminist cultural practices at a moment when feminism has become a contentious buzzword in South Korea. Based on a series of public lectures given in 2018, this edited volume is a timely response to the resurgence of public interest in feminism, which started as a reaction to a chain of events including the #MeToo Movement. The contributing pieces vary in terms of their topics, depths, disciplines, and methods. [...]
Oh Hyejin [O Hyejin] recuperates the acts of reading Harlequin Romances and women's magazines in the 1980s. Oh concludes that women's reading culture was an experiment that allowed women readers to articulate sexual and intellectual desires, blurring the borders between literature and pop culture.
According to a review by Soo Ryon Yoon in the Seoul Journal of Korean Studies,