The proletarian wave : literature and leftist culture in colonial Korea, 1910-1945 /

The proletarian wave : literature and leftist culture in colonial Korea, 1910-1945 /

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Author / Creator:Park, Sunyoung, 1971- author.
Imprint:Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.
Description:xiv, 333 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 374
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 374.
Subject:
Korean literature -- 1919-1945 -- History and criticism.
Korean literature -- 1894-1919 -- History and criticism.
Politics and literature -- Korea -- History -- 20th century.
Socialism -- Korea -- 20th century.
Radicalism -- Korea -- History -- 20th century.
Right and left (Political science) -- History -- 20th century.
Ideology and literature -- History -- 20th century.
Colonial influence.
Ideology and literature.
Korean literature.
Politics and government.
Politics and literature.
Radicalism.
Right and left (Political science)
Socialism.
Korea -- Politics and government -- 1910-1945.
Korea -- Colonial influence.
Korea.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10160826
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ISBN:9780674417175
0674417178
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-310) and index.
Summary:"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.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Plates and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Backgrounds
  • 1. The Left in Colonial Korea: A Contextual Account
  • Part II. Landscapes
  • 2. The Proletarian Wave: An Anatomy of the Literary Left
  • 3. Leftist Literature and Cultural Modernity: A Critical Overview
  • Part III. Portraits
  • 4. Translating the Proletariat: Debates and Literary Experience of the KAPF
  • 5. Confessing the Colonial Self: Yom Sangsop's Literary Ethnographies of the Proletarian Nation
  • 6. Rethinking Feminism in Colonial Korea: Kang Kyongae's Portraits of Proletarian Women
  • 7. Everyday Life as Critique: Kim Namch'on's Literary Experiments
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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