ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|142 pages
Premodern and Early Modern Korean Literature
section Section I|38 pages
Manuscript Culture, Materiality, Performativity
section Section II|36 pages
Print, Medium, Transregional Interactions
chapter 3|18 pages
Books for the Illiterate
section Section III|29 pages
Novel, Gender Dynamics, Transgression
chapter 5|15 pages
The Elite Vernacular Korean Culture of Chosŏn (1392–1910)
section Section IV|36 pages
Language and Writing, Vernacular, Hybridity
part II|142 pages
Modernity and the Colonial Period
section Section I|26 pages
Gender and Sexuality
chapter 10|12 pages
Sexual Violence and its Ideological Labor
section Section II|41 pages
Translation and Crossing
chapter 13|14 pages
Nonsense as Sensibility
section Section III|44 pages
Modernity and Coloniality
chapter 15|12 pages
A Minor Modernist's Conundrum of Representation
section Section IV|28 pages
Art and Politics
part III|169 pages
Liberation and Contemporary Korean Literature
section Section I|42 pages
Decolonization, Cold War, Humanism
section Section II|40 pages
Politics, Memory, Orality
section Section III|42 pages
Race, Diaspora, Intersectionality
section Section IV|43 pages
Division and North Korean Literature
part IV|78 pages
Queer Studies, World Literature, the Digital Humanities
section Section I|32 pages
Queer Reading and Affect
section Section II|44 pages
World Literature, Global Connections, the Digital Humanities