about the archive

This is a small hypertextual database which aims to function as a comprehensive, traversible, and encyclopedic archive of all points of literary and cultural intersection between Korean and Black American liberatory and artistic thought during the Japanese Occupation Period of Korea (1910-1945), utilizing literary magazines and newspapers.

This work-in-progress archive contains explanatory entries in English and digitized archives of untranslated Korean text, and is intended for use in Korean and Ethnic studies work. Attribution for each entry should be listed in the form of an external link or bibliography underneath the content.

Keywords: Harlem Renaissance, Booker T. Washington, Korea under Occupation, 농촌계몽운동 (Agricultural Uplift Movement), Modernist Circulation, Global Modernisms, Hypertext, Literary Journals, Newspaper Archives, Literary Outreach, Small Archive.

This website is a hypertextual digital garden, and can be navigated through three different points of entry:

• The easiest access point is the timeline, which contains a chronological overview of every figure documented in the archive, their publication events concerning each other, and their physical liaisons.

• The graph view on the top right can be expanded to directly see an entangled node-graph of all the texts, persons, and correspondences in the archive.

  You can navigate to each archive entry by clicking through on the nodes, and view a given node's connections to other nodes (for example, a poem's connections to its writer, its muse, and its collection) by hovering over them.

For a full sample including the full graph view and other data visualization tools, please contact belo@belo.gl

※ This archive is incomplete and not yet intended for public access. For any factual errors or errors in attribution, please email the authors at belo@belo.gl.

※ To search entries by date, press ctrl-f (or click the search icon on the top left), and start a query with "#-19XX."