Intimate empire : collaboration and colonial modernity in Korea and Japan / Nayoung Aimee Kwon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kwon, Nayoung Aimee, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--Korean authors--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Japanese literature--Korean authors.

National characteristics, Korean.

Korea--History--Japanese occupation, 1910-1945.

Korea.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Summary:

In Intimate Empire Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines intimate cultural encounters between Korea and Japan during the colonial era and their postcolonial disavowal. After the Japanese empire's collapse in 1945, new nation-centered histories in Korea and Japan actively erased these once ubiquitous cultural interactions that neither side wanted to remember. Kwon reconsiders these imperial encounters and their contested legacies through the rise and fall of Japanese-language literature and other cultural exchanges between Korean and Japanese writers and artists in the Japanese empire. The contrast between the prominence of these and other forums of colonial-era cultural collaboration between the colonizers and the colonized, and their denial in divided national narrations during the postcolonial aftermath, offers insights into the paradoxical nature of colonial collaboration, which Kwon characterizes as embodying desire and intimacy with violence and coercion. Through the case study of the formation and repression of imperial subjects between Korea and Japan, Kwon considers the imbrications of colonialism and modernity and the entwined legacies of colonial and Cold War histories in the Asia-Pacific more broadly. Book jacket.

Contents:

Colonial modernity and the conundrum of representation

Translating Korean literature

A minor writer

Into the light

Colonial abject

Performing colonial kitsch

Overhearing transcolonial roundtables

Turning local

Forgetting Manchurian memories

Paradox of postcoloniality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and index.

ISBN:

9780822359104

0822359103

9780822359258

0822359251

OCLC:

887854386