Modern Korean Fiction - An Anthology Fulton Bruce Associate Professor University of British ColumbiaPaperback
Modern Korean Fiction - An Anthology Fulton Bruce Associate Professor University of British ColumbiaPaperback To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends…
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Modern Korean Fiction - An Anthology Fulton Bruce Associate Professor University of British ColumbiaPaperback
To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses political borders. The writers explore these developments through a variety 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.