Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Asian - General

China's century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an auditory history of the modern Chinese poem. From Lu Xun's seminal writings on literature to a recitation renaissance in urban centers today, poetics meets politics in the sounding voice of poetry. Supported throughout by vivid narration and accessible analysis, Voices in Revolution offers a literary history of modern China that makes the case for the importance of the auditory dimension of poetry in national, revolutionary, and postsocialist culture.

Crespi brings the...

An understanding of contemporary North Korea's literature is virtually impossible without an investigation of its formative period, 1945-1960, which saw a gradual transformation from the initial Soviet era to a Korean version of national Stalinism. This turbulent epoch established a long-lasting framework for North Korean literature and set up an elaborate system of political control over literary matters, as well as over the people who served in this field.

In 1946 Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) leader Kim Il Sung described the country's writers as soldiers on the...

Modern Korean fiction is to a large extent a literature of witness to the historic upheavals of twentieth-century Korea. Often inspired by their own experiences, contemporary writers continue to show us how individual Koreans have been traumatized by wartime violence--whether the uprooting of whole families from the ancestral home, life on the road as war refugees, or the violent deaths of loved ones.

The Red Room brings together stories by three canonical Korean writers who examine trauma as a simple fact of life. In Pak Wan-so's In the Realm of the Buddha, trauma manifests itself...

Modern Korean fiction is to a large extent a literature of witness to the historic upheavals of twentieth-century Korea. Often inspired by their own experiences, contemporary writers continue to show us how individual Koreans have been traumatized by wartime violence--whether the uprooting of whole families from the ancestral home, life on the road as war refugees, or the violent deaths of loved ones.

The Red Room brings together stories by three canonical Korean writers who examine trauma as a simple fact of life. In Pak Wan-so's In the Realm of the Buddha, trauma manifests itself...

Special Feature: Inside North Korea, edited by Heinz Insu Fenkl
Includes excerpts from a graphic novel by Guy Delisle and a comic book by Cho Pyong-kwon & Rim Wal-yong
Photographs by Peter Sobolev
Poetry by O Yong-jae, Li Chong-dok, and Chon Pyong-gu
Fiction by Hyejin Kim, Hong Sok-chung, and Ch'oe Ryon
Other writing by John M. Frankl, David R. McCann, and Yu Hua

This issue also includes fiction by Shin Kyung Sook, Eun Hee Kyung, Jo Kyung Ran, Cheon Woon Young, Pyun Hye-Young; poetry by Chong Hyon-jong, Yi Seong-Bok, Jang Jung Il, Ra Hee-Duk.

South Asian migration during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was largely comprised of indentured labourers sent to British colonies after the 1833 abolition of slavery. Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji.

Mariam Pirbhai perceptively identifies common patterns,...