Impossible Speech - The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Christopher P. Hanscom

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Hanscom
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2024
• EAN: 9780231208499
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20849-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, Politics & government, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Politics and government, Korean, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, literary criticism; performing arts