Ye Ram (Esther) Kim is a PhD candidate in comparative literature and French at the University of Chicago. Raised in Tunisia, she works across French, Modern Standard Arabic, Tunisian Darija, Korean, and Japanese. Her research compares francophone Korean and North African diasporic literatures.
What is your native tongue? For some families, the question of linguistic identity can be hard to answer.I come from a family of Korean ancestry. Yet I do not speak Korean. I was born in Japa…
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