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The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature

Edited By Heekyoung Cho Copyright 2022
    750 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    750 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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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.

    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 Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910)

      2. Park, Si Nae

    2. Performing Vernacular: Textual Practices as Bodily Events in Premodern Korea

      3. Cho, Hwisang

      Section II. Print, Medium, Transregional Interactions

    3. Books for the Illiterate: the Haengsil-to (Illustrated Guide for Moral Deeds) of Chosŏn Korea

      4. Oh, Young Kyun

    4. Print and Transnational Referentiality: Nam Kong-ch’ŏl’s Printing of Kŭmnŭng chip

      5. Son, Suyoung

      Section III. Novel, Gender Dynamics, Transgression

    5. The Elite Vernacular Korean Culture of Chosŏn (1392-1910): Indeterminacy, Hybridity, Strangeness

      6. Chizhova, Ksenia

    6. Lovesickness and Death in Seventeenth-Century Korean Literature

      7. Lee, Janet Yoon-sun

      Section IV. Language and Writing, Vernacular, Hybridity

    7. Idu in and as Korean Literature

      8. King, Ross

    8. Hybrid Orthographies and the Emergence of Modern Literature in Early Twentieth Century Korea

      9. Pieper, Daniel

      　

      Part II. Modernity and the Colonial Period

      Section I. Gender and Sexuality

    9. Capital, Gender and Modernity in Colonial Korean Literature

      10. Jeong, Kelly Y.

    10. Sexual Violence and Its Ideological Labor: Imagining Masculinist Equality and Androcentric Ethnos in Colonial Korean Literature

      11. Lee, Jin-kyung

      Section II. Translation and Crossing

    11. Incongruent Reflections: Translation and Bilingual Writings in Colonial Korea

      12. Oh, Yoon Jeong

    12. The Japanese Café France: Chŏng Chi-yong and Self-Translation

      13. Krolikoski, David

    13. Nonsense As Sensibility: The Importance of Not Being Earnest in Colonial Korea and Taiwan

      14. Shih, Evelyn

      　

      Section III. Modernity and Coloniality

    14. Language, Science, and the Status of Truth in Late Colonial Korea

      15. Hanscom, Christopher P.

    15. A Minor Modernist’s Conundrum of Representation: Kim Saryang and the Colonized I-Novel

      16. Kwon, Nayoung Aimee

    16. Rewriting the City: Yi Sang, Architecture, and the Figure of the Department Store

      17. Kim, Jina E.

      Section IV. Art and Politics

    17. A Forgotten Aesthetic: Reportage in Colonial Korea 1920s–1930s

      18. Park, Sunyoung

    18. Literature (chŏnhyang sosŏl) and the Inward Gaze in the Late Colonial Period

      19. Shim, Mi-Ryong

      　

      Part III. Liberation and Contemporary Korean Literature

      Section I. Decolonization, Cold War, and Humanism

    19. Decolonizing Literature: Bridging Political Divides in the Post-Liberation Period

      20. Glade, Jonathan

    20. Vitalism and Existentialism in Early South Korean Literature

      21. Chung, Jae Won Edward

    21. Humanism as a Problem of Empire in Modern Korean Literature

      22. Workman, Travis

      Section II. Politics, Memory, Orality

    22. Gender and Class Dynamics in the Utilitarian Discourse of the Developmental State and Literature in 1970s and 80s South Korea

      23. Suh, Serk-Bae

    23. (Dis-) embodiment of Memory: Gender, Memory, and Ethics in Human Acts by Han Kang

      24. Lee, Ji-Eun

    24. Continuing Orality in Korean Poetry: Opening a P’an for the Page

      25. Yi, Ivanna Sang Een

      Section III. Race, Diaspora, Intersectionality

    25. Ŏmma’s Baby, Appa’s Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of Diaspora

      26. Huh, Jang Wook

    26. Intersecting Korean Diasporas

      27. Yi, Christina

    27. Whose Korea is it? Reading Zainichi Literature Intersectionally

      28. Textor, Cindi

      　

      Section IV. Division and North Korean Literature

    28. Closed Borders and Open Letters in the Cold War Koreas

      29. Kief, I Jonathan

    29. A Good Wife is Hard to Find: North Korean Women in Fiction

      30. Kim, Immanuel

    30. Children’s Literature in South and North Korea

      31. Zur, Dafna

      　

      Part IV. Queer Studies, World Literature, and the Digital Humanities

      Section I. Queer Reading and Affect

    31. Forms of Attachment: Ardent Female Intimacies in 1920s Korea

      32. Perry, Samuel

    32. The Poet and the Theater: Perverse Reading and Queer Poetry

      33. Kim, Ungsan

      Section II. World Literature, Global Connections, and the Digital Humanities

    33. World Literature, Korean Literature, and the Medical and Health Humanities

      34. Thornber, Karen

    34. Global Korea and World Literature

      35. Medina, Jenny Wang

    35. The Text-Mining of Culture: The Case of a Popular Magazine in 1930s Korea

    Lee, Jae-Yon and Kim, Hyun-Joo

    　Appendix: A Comprehensive List of English Translations of Korean Literature

    Hyokyoung Yi

    Biography

    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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