ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature provides a comprehensive overview of a Korean literary tradition, which is understood as a multifaceted nexus of practices, both homegrown and transnational.
The handbook discusses the perspectives from which modern Korean literature has thus far been defined, analyzing which voices have been enunciated, underappreciated, or completely silenced and how we can enrich our understanding of it. Taking up diverse transnational and interdisciplinary standpoints, this volume aims to encourage readers not to treat modern Korean literature as a self-evident category but to examine it anew as an uncultivated and uncharted space, unearthing its internal chasms and global connections. Divided into five parts, the themes covered include the following:
- Literature and power
- Borders and boundaries
- Rationality in literature and its limits
- Language, ethnicity, and translation
- Korean literature in the changing mediascape.
By introducing new conceptual paradigms to the field of modern Korean literature, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Korean, East Asian, and world literature alike.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|71 pages
The power of literature/ the literature of power
chapter 1|12 pages
Art as freedom and power
chapter 3|17 pages
The colonial frontier
chapter 5|16 pages
The mad father in the attic
part 2|83 pages
Crossing borders, redrawing boundaries
chapter 7|11 pages
Border crossings between decolonization and the Cold War
chapter 8|12 pages
Fracturing literary boundaries
chapter 10|13 pages
Division literature and visions for de-bordering
part 3|44 pages
Rationality in Korean literature and its limits
part 4|59 pages
Transnational archives
chapter 17|16 pages
Interracial romance, unlawful marriage
part 5|49 pages
Korean literature in the changing mediascape