Triangle Republics - Cross-Border Literary Transits Between the Cold War Koreas and Japan

"Explores the robust and dynamic literary dialogues that emerged between writers in North Korea, South Korea, and Japan during the Cold War decades of the 1950s-1980s. Unlike the dominant narrative of these years, which assumes that the post-1945 processes of decolonization and division isolated these three literary domains from one another, the book shows how the shared predicaments of the Cold War and national division in fact brought them together, with a key role played by the Korean diasporic community in Japan, which was uniquely positioned to interact with writers and texts from both Koreas. With its multilingual, regional perspective, the book challenges the "national literature" paradigm of literary studies, showing how cross-border networks of textual transit and exchange played a central role in the creative transformations of these decades"-- Provided by publisher.

About the author

I Jonathan Kief is an assistant professor of Korean studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Product details

• Authors: I Jonathan Kief
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2025
• EAN: 9780231219846
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21984-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, Korea, Asia, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period), literary criticism; history