Modern Korean Fiction - An Anthology

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-231-13513-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses political borders. By inlcuding stories from neglected female, North Korean, and wolbuk writers (those who migrated to the North after 1945 and whose works were widely banned in South Korea) and by bringing politically engaged works together with experimental ones, this anthology articulates the ruptures and resolutions that have makred the peninsula.

From sketches of desperate peasants in straitened circumstances to fast-moving, visceral tales of contemporary South Korea, the works in this collection bear witness to the dramatic transformations and events in twentieth-century Korean history, including Japanese colonial rule, civil war, and economic modernization in the South. The writers explore these developments through a variety of literary and political lenses, revealing wtih precision and poignancy their impact on Korean society and the lives of ordinary Koreans. This anthology includes an introduction, which synthesizes the key developments in modern Korean literature, and a comprehensive bibliography of Korean fiction in translation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fulton, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceIntroduction1 Hyon Chingon, A Lucky Day2 Kim Tongin, Potatoes3 Yi T'aejun, Crows4 Kim Tongni, The Shaman Painting5 Kim Yujong, The White Rabbit6 Yi Sang, Wings7 Yi Hyosok, When the Buckwheat Blooms8 Ch'ae Manshik, My Innocent Uncle9 Ch'oe Chonghui, The Ritual at the Well10 Hwang Sunwon, Coarse Sand11 Yi Hoch'ol, Far from Home12 Kim Sungok, Seoul: 1964, Winter13 Ch'oe Inho, Another Man's Room14 Kim Pukhyang, The Son15 Cho Sehui, Knifeblade16 Ch'oe Illam, Ballad17 Yi Ch'ongjun, Footprints in the Snow18 Yi Munyol, The Old Hatter19 Pak Wanso, Mother's Hitching Post20 O Chonghui, Wayfarer21 Ch'oe Yun, The Gray Snowman22 Kim Yongha, LizardSuggestions for Further ReadingBibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Fulton occupies the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation at the University of British Columbia. He is coeditor of Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers, Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction, and A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction.Youngmin Kwon is professor of Korean literature at Seoul National University.