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Crisis of gender and the nation in Korean literature and cinema : modernity arrives again / Kelly Y. Jeong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jeong, Kelly Y., 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Korean literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Korean literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Korea.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Nationalism and literature--Korea.
- Nationalism and literature.
- Women in literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Nationalism in motion pictures.
- Korea (South)--In motion pictures.
- Korea (South).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (147 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is about the changing constructs of modernity, masculinity, and gender relations and discourses in Korean literature and cinema during the crucial decades of the colonial and postcolonial era, from the 1920's to the 1960's, which have an enduring and wide-ranging impact on Korea's cultural experiences of the past century.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- New woman, romance, and railroads : the paradox of colonial modernity
- Burden of the past : confessional writings in the space of decolonization
- Literature of instability and despair : woman and masculinity in postwar fiction
- Nation re-building and postwar South Korean cinema : The coachman and The stray bullet
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-20505-0
- 1-283-09921-7
- 9786613099211
- 0-7391-6439-2
- OCLC:
- 726734837
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