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…mehr
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.
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.
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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 Chos n 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 Chos n Korea
Young Kyun Oh
Print and Transnational Referentiality: Nam Kong-ch' l's Printing of K mn ngchip
Suyoung Son
Section III. Novel, Gender Dynamics, Transgression
The Elite Vernacular Korean Culture of Chos n (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": Ch ng 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 (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
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
mma'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