A Comparative Study of Korean Literature: Literary Migration

ISBN-13: 9781137557179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 178 str.

Sangjin Park

Opis

This book analyses two international incidents which impacted heavily in 20th century Japan-US Relations: the defeat of the Japanese proposed Racial Equality Bill during the Paris Peace Conference and the 1924 US immigration law that singularly excluded Japanese from immigration. Based on new materials from across Japan, the United States, Australia and Europe, this cutting edge study considers the life of Hanihara Masanao, Japanese diplomat, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and ultimately the Ambassador to Washington during the fateful years of 1923-24, and examines how these events contributed towards the drastic transformation of Japan, from the liberal thinking Taisho Democracy in the 1920s to the violent rise of ultra-nationalism in 1930's Japan.

Spis treści

1. The Condition of 'East Asia' Discourse: Thought and Practice of De-homogenization.- 2. Porous Modernity: Overcoming Modernity in the Age of Globalization.- 3. The World of Circulation: The Universality of Literary Value in the Guunmong.- 4. The Literary Value of Sin Ch'ae-ho's Dream Sky: A Marginal Alteration of Dante's Comedy.- 5. National Language Beyond Nation-States: Vernacular Literary Language in Yi Kwang-Su.- 6. Literature as Sensibility to the Other: Dante in Modern Korean Literature.

O autorze

Sangjin Park received his PhD from the University of Oxford and served as Visiting Professor at Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania. He is now Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Busan University of Foreign Studies, Korea, and the author of Semiotics and Theory of Openness (English) and Reading Dante’s Comedy: Universality of Classic and Sensibility to the Other (Korean) among others. Recently he translated Dante’s Comedy and Boccaccio’s Decameron with introduction and notes. He is preparing books on Dante and Comparative Literature.

Blurb

This study in comparative literature reinterprets and reevaluates literary texts and socio-historical transitions, moving between the Korean, East Asian, and European contexts (and with particular reference to the reception of Dante Alighieri in the East). In the process, it reexamines the universality of literary values and reopens the questions of what literature is and what it can do. By close reading of texts, it aims to give exposure to Korean literature, in such a way as to attract more attention to the field of world literature and to focus on what kind of relationship they can form and what new horizon of literariness they can construct in the future. This work will help to put the geography of world literature on a more open and just basis, by showing the porous nature of literary migration and supplying the missing links in the current discourse on world literature.