Routledge Companion to Korean Literature

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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Heekyoung Cho
• Con la collaborazione di: Heekyoung Cho (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780367348496
• ISBN: 978-0-367-34849-6
• Pagine: 730
• Serie: Routledge Literature Companions
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism