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.

National characteristics, Korean.

Imperialism in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Korea.

Modernism (Literature).

Modernism (Literature)--Japan.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Language and languages in literature.

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

Korea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Summary:

<div>Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines the Japanese language literature written by Koreans during late Japanese colonialism. She demonstrates that simply characterizing that literature as collaborationist obscures the complicated relationship these authors had with colonialism, modernity, and identity, as well as the relationship between colonizers and the colonized.</div>

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822375401

9780822359258

0822359251

OCLC:

907883031