Routledge handbook of modern Korean literature / edited by Yoon Sun Yang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yang, Yoon Sun, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Korean literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature provides a comprehensive overview of a Korean literary tradition, which is understood as a multifaceted nexus of practices, both homegrown and transnational.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

Note on romanization, translation, and capitalization

Introduction

Part 1 The power of literature/the literature of power

1 Art as freedom and power: Kim Tongin and the political legacy of pure literature in modern Korea

2 Proletarian realities and leftist literature of 1920s and 1930s Colonial Korea

3 The colonial frontier: primitive accumulation, migration, and settler colonialism in Kando literature

4 Decolonizing the future: postcolonial themes in South Korean science fiction

5 The mad father in the attic: torture and the ethics of accountability in post-authoritarian Korean fiction

Part 2 Crossing borders, redrawing boundaries

6 In the shadow of nation and empire: northwestern writers in colonial Seoul

7 Border crossings between decolonization and the Cold War: rethinking post-Liberation literature, 1945-50

8 Fracturing literary boundaries: connecting with the Korean Peninsula in postwar Japan

9 Crossing the great divide: mid-century modernism on the Korean Peninsula

10 Division literature and visions for de-bordering: Ch'oe Inhun, Pak Wansŏ, and individuals without belonging

11 South Korean activist readers of North Korean literature

Part 3 Rationality in Korean literature and its limits: scientists, detectives, and doctors

12 Literary negotiations with Western science in post-confucian Korea

13 The development of detective fiction in Korea: focusing on the colonial period

14 Curing, but not healing, in Pak Wansŏ's "During Three Days of That Autumn"

Part 4 Transnational archives: language, ethnicity, and translation

15 The figure of the translator: Kim Saryang between Korean and Japanese literatures

16 Zainichi writers and the postcoloniality of modern Korean literature.

17 Interracial romance, unlawful marriage: transpacific encounters in early Korean American literature

18 Autobiography of others: Dictée's counterhegemonic feminism

Part 5 Korean literature in the changing mediascape: radio, television, and print culture

19 The sonic unconscious and the wartime radio novel in colonial Korea

20 Make noise, not war: television in Yusin-era literature

21 Radicalizing against polarities: poetry and print culture in 1980s literary topography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-62281-5

1-317-22413-2

9781315622811

OCLC:

1129402760