ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Stephen Hong Sohn critically analyzes how Yoon Ha Lee’s short story “Ghostweight” offers us an opportunity to link science-fictional terrains with actual historical contexts. Sohn considers how speculative constructs in the short story might relate to both North and South Korea—and what might come to be for these two countries—alongside politically complicated issues such as violence, brutality, and international conquest. In this sense, we turn to speculative fiction not only for its entertaining and expansive conceptions of fantastic other universes but also to understand its representations as crucially tethered to material histories and discourses.
