Transnational Encounters Between Germany and Korea: Affinity in Culture and Politics Since the 1880s

ISBN-13: 9781349957668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 328 str.

Joanne Miyang Cho; Lee M. Roberts

Spis treści

1. Introduction

I. An Overview

2. 130 Years of German-Korean Relations

II. German-Korean Relations before 1945

3. Paul Georg von Möllendorff: A German Reformer in Korea

4. Franz Eckart and Richard Wunsch: Two Prussians in Korean Service

5. Specters of Schinkel in East Asisa: Berlin, Tokyo and Seoul from a Viewpoint of Modernity/Coloniality

III. A Common Fate in the Cold War Era and Beyond

6. Korean-German Relations from the 1950s to the 1980s: Archive-based Approach to Cold War-Era History

7. Third-World Politics of Luise Rinser in the 1970s and 1980s: Isang Yun and North Korea

8. Liminal Visions: Cinematic Representations of the German and Korean Divides

9. The "Ignorant" Other: Popular Stereotypes of North Korean Refugees in South Korea and East Germans in Unified Germany

10. Illusions of Unity: Life Narratives in Eastern German and North Korean Unification Literature

IV. The Migration of Ideas and People

11. Depictions of the Self as Korean in German-language Literature by Mirok Li and Kang Moon Suk

12. Endstation der Sehnsüchte: Home-Making of Return Gastarbeiter Migrants

13. History as a Reflecting Mirror: Korea's Appropriation of Germany's Experience in Rectifying the Past

14. Goethe's Faust in the South Korean Manhwa "The Tarot Cafe": Sang-Sun Park's Critical Project

O autorze

Joanne Miyang Cho is Professor and Chair of History at William Paterson University in New Jersey, USA. She is co-editor of Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India (2014), Germany and China (2014), Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan (2016), and Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia (2016), and co-editor of Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies.

Lee M. Roberts is Associate Professor of German at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and Associate Director of the IPFW Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. His publications include Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik (2010) and chapters in Germany and China: Transnational Encounters since the Eighteenth Century (2014) and Transnational Encounters between Germany and Japan (2016). He is co-editor of the Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies.

Blurb

This book examines the history of the German-Korean relationship from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century, focusing on the nations’ varied encounters with each other during the last years of the Yi dynasty, the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War era. With essays from a range of internationally respected scholars, this collection moves between history, diplomacy, politics, education, migration, literature, cinema, and architecture to uncover historical and cultural intersections between Germany and Korea. Each nation has navigated the challenges of modernity in different ways, and yet traditional East-West dichotomies belie the deeper affinities between them. This book points to those affinities, focusing in particular on the past and present internal divisions that perhaps make Germany and Korea as similar as Germany and Japan.