The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature

Herausgeber: Cho, Heekyoung

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Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature highlights the most dynamic current scholarship on Korean literature, presenting rigorous literary analysis, interdisciplinary methodologies, and transregional thinking so as to provide a valuable and inspiring resource for researchers and students alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1388g
• ISBN-13: 9781032202662
• ISBN-10: 1032202661
• Artikelnr.: 73874256

Autorenporträt

Heekyoung Cho is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of Translation's Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature. Her articles discuss topics on translation and the creation of modern fiction, translation and censorship, serial publication, world literature, and webcomics. Her current research focuses on seriality in cultural production in both old and new media, including digital serialization and transmedial production, as well as graphic narratives and media platforms.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction-"Redefined and Challenged: Anthologizing Korean Literary Studies" Heekyoung Cho Part I. Premodern and Early Modern Korean Literature Section I. Manuscript Culture, Materiality, Performativity 1. Manuscript, Not Print, in the Book World of Chos
n Korea (1392-1910) Si Nae Park 2. Performing Vernacular: Textual Practices as Bodily Events in Premodern Korea Hwisang Cho Section II. Print, Medium, Transregional Interactions 3. Books for the Illiterate: the Haengsil-to (Illustrated Guide for Moral Deeds) of Chos
n Korea Young Kyun Oh 4. Print and Transnational Referentiality: Nam Kong-ch'
l's Printing of K
mn
ng chip Suyoung Son Section III. Novel, Gender Dynamics, Transgression 5. The Elite Vernacular Korean Culture of Chos
n (1392-1910): Indeterminacy, Hybridity, Strangeness Ksenia Chizhova 6. Lovesickness and Death in Seventeenth-Century Korean Literature Janet Yoon-sun Lee Section IV. Language and Writing, Vernacular, Hybridity 7. Idu in and as Korean Literature Ross King 8. Hybrid Orthographies and the Emergence of Modern Literature in Early Twentieth-Century Korea Daniel Pieper Part II. Modernity and the Colonial Period Section I. Gender and Sexuality 9. Capital, Gender, and Modernity in Colonial Korean Literature Kelly Y. Jeong 10. Sexual Violence and Its Ideological Labor: Imagining Masculinist Equality and Androcentric Ethnos in Colonial Korean Literature Jin-kyung Lee Section II. Translation and Crossing 11. Incongruent Reflections: Translation and Bilingual Writings in Colonial Korea Yoon Jeong Oh 12. The Japanese "Café France": Ch
ng Chi-yong and Self-Translation David Krolikoski 13. Nonsense As Sensibility: The Importance of Not Being Earnest in Colonial Korea and Taiwan Evelyn Shih Section III. Modernity and Coloniality 14. Language, Science, and the Status of Truth in Late Colonial Korea Christopher P. Hanscom 15. A Minor Modernist's Conundrum of Representation: Kim Saryang and the Colonized I-Novel Nayoung Aimee Kwon 16. Rewriting the City: Yi Sang, Architecture, and the Figure of the Department Store Jina E. Kim Section IV. Art and Politics 17. A Forgotten Aesthetic: Reportage in Colonial Korea, 1920s-1930s Sunyoung Park 18. Literature (ch
nhyang sos
l) and the Inward Gaze in the Late Colonial Period Mi-Ryong Shim Part III. Liberation and Contemporary Korean Literature Section I. Decolonization, Cold War, Humanism 19. Decolonizing Literature: Bridging Political Divides in the Post-Liberation Period Jonathan Glade 20. Vitalism and Existentialism in Early South Korean Literature Jae Won Edward Chung 21. Humanism as a Problem of Empire in Modern Korean Literature Travis Workman Section II. Politics, Memory, Orality 22. Gender and Class Dynamics in the Utilitarian Discourse of the Developmental State and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea Serk-Bae Suh 23. (Dis)embodiment of Memory: Gender, Memory, and Ethics in Human Acts by Han Kang Ji-Eun Lee 24. Continuing Orality in Korean Poetry: Opening a P'an for the Page Ivanna Sang Een Yi Section III. Race, Diaspora, Intersectionality 25.
mma's Baby, Appa's Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of Diaspora Jang Wook Huh 26. Intersecting Korean Diasporas Christina Yi 27. Whose Korea is it? Reading Zainichi Literature Intersectionally Cindi Textor Section IV. Division and North Korean Literature 28. Closed Borders and Open Letters in the Cold War Koreas I Jonathan Kief 29. A Good Wife is Hard to Find: North Korean Women in Fiction Immanuel Kim 30. Children's Literature in South and North Korea Dafna Zur Part IV. Queer Studies, World Literature, the Digital Humanities Section I. Queer Reading and Affect 31. Forms of Attachment: Ardent Female Intimacies in 1920s Korea Samuel Perry 32. The Poet and the Theater: Perverse Reading and Queer Poetry Ungsan Kim Section II. World Literature, Global Connections, the Digital Humanities 33. World Literature, Korean Literature, and the Medical and Health Humanities Karen Thornber 34. Global Korea and World Literature Jenny Wang Medina 35. The Text-Mining of Culture: The Case of a Popular Magazine in 1930s Korea Jae-Yon Lee and Hyun-Joo Kim Appendix: A Comprehensive List of English Translations of Korean Literature Hyokyoung Yi