Format:
XIV, 333 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9780674417175
Series Statement:
Harvard East Asian monographs 374
Content:
"Provides the first historical account in English of the complex interrelations of literature and socialist ideology in colonial Korea. It details the origins, development, and influence of a movement that has shaped twentieth-century Korean politics and aesthetics alike through an analysis that simultaneously engages some of the most debated and pressing issues of literary historiography, Marxist criticism, and postcolonial cultural studies"--Provided by the publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
List of plates and figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Backgrounds -- The Left in colonial Korea : a contextual account -- Part 2. Landscapes -- The proletarian wave : an anatomy of the literary Left -- Leftist literature and cultural modernity: a critical overview -- Part 3. Portraits -- Translating the proletariat : debates and literary experience of the KAPF -- Confessing the colonial self : Yom Sangsop's literary ethnographies of the proletarian nation -- Rethinking feminism in colonial Korea : Kang Kyongae's portraits of proletarian women -- Everyday life as critique : Kim Namch'on's literary experiments -- Conclusion
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
Political Science
Keywords:
Korea
;
Besetzung
;
Sozialismus
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte 1910-1945
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