Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature

ISBN-13: 9781032237220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Yoon Sun Yang

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 Reality 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 Postliberation Literature, 1945–1950  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 Wanso, and Individuals without Belonging  11. South Korean Activist Readers of North Korean Literature  Part 3: Rationality in 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 Colonial Korea  14. Curing, But Not Healing, in Pak Wanso’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 Counter-Hegemonic 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 the 1980's Literary Topography

O autorze

Yoon Sun Yang is associate professor of Korean and comparative literature at Boston University, US. She is the author of From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea (2017).