The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-34849-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 750 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1584 g

Reihe: Routledge Literature Companions

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cho, Heekyoung

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction—"Redefined and Challenged: Anthologizing Korean Literary Studies"

Heekyoung Cho

Part I. Premodern and Early Modern Korean Literature

Section I. Manuscript Culture, Materiality, Performativity

- Manuscript, Not Print, in the Book World of Choson Korea (1392–1910)

Si Nae Park

- Performing Vernacular: Textual Practices as Bodily Events in Premodern Korea

Hwisang Cho

Section II. Print, Medium, Transregional Interactions

- Books for the Illiterate: the Haengsil-to (Illustrated Guide for Moral Deeds) of Choson Korea

Young Kyun Oh

- Print and Transnational Referentiality: Nam Kong-ch’ol’s Printing of Kumnung chip

Suyoung Son

Section III. Novel, Gender Dynamics, Transgression

- The Elite Vernacular Korean Culture of Choson (1392-1910): Indeterminacy, Hybridity, Strangeness

Ksenia Chizhova

- Lovesickness and Death in Seventeenth-Century Korean Literature

Janet Yoon-sun Lee

Section IV. Language and Writing, Vernacular, Hybridity

- Idu in and as Korean Literature

Ross King

- 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

- Capital, Gender, and Modernity in Colonial Korean Literature

Kelly Y. Jeong

- Sexual Violence and Its Ideological Labor: Imagining Masculinist Equality and Androcentric Ethnos in Colonial Korean Literature

Jin-kyung Lee

Section II. Translation and Crossing

- Incongruent Reflections: Translation and Bilingual Writings in Colonial Korea

Yoon Jeong Oh

- The Japanese "Café France": Chong Chi-yong and Self-Translation

David Krolikoski

- Nonsense As Sensibility: The Importance of Not Being Earnest in Colonial Korea and Taiwan

Evelyn Shih



Section III. Modernity and Coloniality

- Language, Science, and the Status of Truth in Late Colonial Korea

Christopher P. Hanscom

- A Minor Modernist’s Conundrum of Representation: Kim Saryang and the Colonized I-Novel

Nayoung Aimee Kwon

- Rewriting the City: Yi Sang, Architecture, and the Figure of the Department Store

Jina E. Kim

Section IV. Art and Politics

- A Forgotten Aesthetic: Reportage in Colonial Korea, 1920s–1930s

Sunyoung Park

- Literature (chonhyang sosol) 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

- Decolonizing Literature: Bridging Political Divides in the Post-Liberation Period

Jonathan Glade

- Vitalism and Existentialism in Early South Korean Literature

Jae Won Edward Chung

- Humanism as a Problem of Empire in Modern Korean Literature

Travis Workman

Section II. Politics, Memory, Orality

- Gender and Class Dynamics in the Utilitarian Discourse of the Developmental State and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea

Serk-Bae Suh

- (Dis)embodiment of Memory: Gender, Memory, and Ethics in Human Acts by Han Kang

Ji-Eun Lee

- Continuing Orality in Korean Poetry: Opening a P’an for the Page

Ivanna Sang Een Yi

Section III. Race, Diaspora, Intersectionality

- Omma’s Baby, Appa’s Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of Diaspora

Jang Wook Huh

- Intersecting Korean Diasporas

Christina Yi

- Whose Korea is it? Reading Zainichi Literature Intersectionally

Cindi Textor



Section IV. Division and North Korean Literature

- Closed Borders and Open Letters in the Cold War Koreas

I Jonathan Kief

- A Good Wife is Hard to Find: North Korean Women in Fiction

Immanuel Kim

- 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

- Forms of Attachment: Ardent Female Intimacies in 1920s Korea

Samuel Perry

- The Poet and the Theater: Perverse Reading and Queer Poetry

Ungsan Kim

Section II. World Literature, Global Connections, the Digital Humanities

- World Literature, Korean Literature, and the Medical and Health Humanities

Karen Thornber

- Global Korea and World Literature

Jenny Wang Medina

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.