The proletarian wave : literature and leftist culture in colonial Korea, 1910-1945 / Sunyoung Park.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, Sunyoung, 1971- author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 374.

Harvard East Asian monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean literature--1919-1945--History and criticism.

Korean literature.

Korean literature--1894-1919--History and criticism.

Politics and literature--Korea--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Socialism--Korea--20th century.

Socialism.

Radicalism--Korea--History--20th century.

Radicalism.

Right and left (Political science)--History--20th century.

Right and left (Political science).

History.

Ideology and literature--History--20th century.

Ideology and literature.

Colonial influence.

Korea--Politics and government--1910-1945.

Korea.

Politics and government.

Korea--Colonial influence.

Physical Description:

xiv, 333 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.

Summary:

"Provides the first historical account in English of the complex interrelations of literature and socialist ideology in colonial Korea. It details the origins, development, and influence of a movement that has shaped twentieth-century Korean politics and aesthetics alike through an analysis that simultaneously engages some of the most debated and pressing issues of literary historiography, Marxist criticism, and postcolonial cultural studies"--Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

List of plates and figures

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1. Backgrounds

The Left in colonial Korea : a contextual account

Part 2. Landscapes

The proletarian wave : an anatomy of the literary Left

Leftist literature and cultural modernity: a critical overview

Part 3. Portraits

Translating the proletariat : debates and literary experience of the KAPF

Confessing the colonial self : Yom Sangsop's literary ethnographies of the proletarian nation

Rethinking feminism in colonial Korea : Kang Kyongae's portraits of proletarian women

Everyday life as critique : Kim Namch'on's literary experiments

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-310) and index.

ISBN:

9780674417175

0674417178

OCLC:

892304521

Publisher Number:

40024773832