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The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature consists of 35 chapters written by leaders in the field, who explore significant topics and who have pioneered innovative approaches. The collection 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. This Companion has particular significance as the most extensive collection to date of English-language articles on Korean literature; it both offers a thorough intellectual engagement with current scholarship and addresses a broad range of topics and time periods, from premodern to contemporary. It will contribute to an understanding of literature as part of a broad sociocultural process that aims to put the field into conversation with other fields of study in the humanities and social sciences. While presenting rigorous and innovative academic research that will be useful to graduate students and researchers, the chapters in the collection are written to be accessible to the average upper-level undergraduate student and include only minimal use of academic jargon. In an effort to provide substantially helpful material for researching, teaching, and learning Korean literature, this Companion includes as an appendix an extensive list of English translations of Korean literature.

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Author:   Heekyoung Cho
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.550kg
ISBN:  

9780367348496

ISBN 10:   0367348497
Pages:   730
Publication Date:   16 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction—""Redefined and Challenged: Anthologizing Korean Literary Studies"" Heekyoung Cho Part I. Premodern and Early Modern Korean Literature Section I. Manuscript Culture, Materiality, Performativity Manuscript, Not Print, in the Book World of Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) Si Nae Park Performing Vernacular: Textual Practices as Bodily Events in Premodern Korea Hwisang Cho Section II. Print, Medium, Transregional Interactions Books for the Illiterate: the Haengsil-to (Illustrated Guide for Moral Deeds) of Chosŏn Korea Young Kyun Oh Print and Transnational Referentiality: Nam Kong-ch’ŏl’s Printing of Kŭmnŭng chip Suyoung Son Section III. Novel, Gender Dynamics, Transgression The Elite Vernacular Korean Culture of Chosŏn (1392-1910): Indeterminacy, Hybridity, Strangeness Ksenia Chizhova Lovesickness and Death in Seventeenth-Century Korean Literature Janet Yoon-sun Lee Section IV. Language and Writing, Vernacular, Hybridity Idu in and as Korean Literature Ross King 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 Capital, Gender, and Modernity in Colonial Korean Literature Kelly Y. Jeong Sexual Violence and Its Ideological Labor: Imagining Masculinist Equality and Androcentric Ethnos in Colonial Korean Literature Jin-kyung Lee Section II. Translation and Crossing Incongruent Reflections: Translation and Bilingual Writings in Colonial Korea Yoon Jeong Oh The Japanese ""Café France"": Chŏng Chi-yong and Self-Translation David Krolikoski Nonsense As Sensibility: The Importance of Not Being Earnest in Colonial Korea and Taiwan Evelyn Shih Section III. Modernity and Coloniality Language, Science, and the Status of Truth in Late Colonial Korea Christopher P. Hanscom A Minor Modernist’s Conundrum of Representation: Kim Saryang and the Colonized I-Novel Nayoung Aimee Kwon Rewriting the City: Yi Sang, Architecture, and the Figure of the Department Store Jina E. Kim Section IV. Art and Politics A Forgotten Aesthetic: Reportage in Colonial Korea, 1920s–1930s Sunyoung Park Literature (chŏnhyang sosŏl) 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 Decolonizing Literature: Bridging Political Divides in the Post-Liberation Period Jonathan Glade Vitalism and Existentialism in Early South Korean Literature Jae Won Edward Chung Humanism as a Problem of Empire in Modern Korean Literature Travis Workman Section II. Politics, Memory, Orality Gender and Class Dynamics in the Utilitarian Discourse of the Developmental State and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea Serk-Bae Suh (Dis)embodiment of Memory: Gender, Memory, and Ethics in Human Acts by Han Kang Ji-Eun Lee Continuing Orality in Korean Poetry: Opening a P’an for the Page Ivanna Sang Een Yi Section III. Race, Diaspora, Intersectionality Ŏmma’s Baby, Appa’s Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of Diaspora Jang Wook Huh Intersecting Korean Diasporas Christina Yi Whose Korea is it? Reading Zainichi Literature Intersectionally Cindi Textor Section IV. Division and North Korean Literature Closed Borders and Open Letters in the Cold War Koreas I Jonathan Kief A Good Wife is Hard to Find: North Korean Women in Fiction Immanuel Kim 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 Forms of Attachment: Ardent Female Intimacies in 1920s Korea Samuel Perry The Poet and the Theater: Perverse Reading and Queer Poetry Ungsan Kim Section II. World Literature, Global Connections, the Digital Humanities World Literature, Korean Literature, and the Medical and Health Humanities Karen Thornber Global Korea and World Literature Jenny Wang Medina 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"

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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.

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