Christopher Hanscom

Impossible Speech

The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film

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Produktbeschreibung

Christopher P. Hanscom questions common understandings of political art by examining four figures central to recent Korean fiction, film, and public discourse: the migrant laborer, the witness to or survivor of state violence, the refugee, and the socially excluded urban precariat.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780231208499
• ISBN-10: 0231208499
• Artikelnr.: 70142430

Autorenporträt

Christopher P. Hanscom

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Impossible Speech and the Politics of Literature
1. The Return of the Real in South Korean Fiction
2. Displacing the Common Sense of Trauma: Han Kang's A Boy Is Coming
3. Fabricating the Real: Accounting for North Korea in Escapee Narratives
and in Fiction
4. Disturbing Sensibility: Transgressing Generic Norms in Castaway on the
Moon and I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index