Modern Korean Fiction: An AnthologyColumbia University Press, 2005 - 387 pagina's 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. |
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KIM TONGIN POTATOES | 2 |
KKAMAGWI 1936 | 21 |
KIM TONGNI THE SHAMAN PAINTING | 35 |
5 | 51 |
YI SANG WINGS | 65 |
YI HYOSŎK WHEN THE BUCKWHEAT BLOOMS | 85 |
CHOE CHONGHUI THE RITUAL AT THE WELL | 113 |
IO HWANG SUNWŎN COARSE SAND | 135 |
KIM PUKHYANG THE | 196 |
CHO SEHUI KNIFEBLADE | 215 |
CHOE ILLAM BALLAD | 233 |
YI CHŎNGJUN FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW | 251 |
YI MUNYŎL THE OLD HATTER | 269 |
PAK WANSŎ MOTHERS HITCHING POST | 291 |
O CHŎNGHUI WAYFARER | 329 |
CHOE YUN THE GRAY SNOWMAN | 345 |
YI HOCHŎL FAR FROM HOME | 149 |
1964 WINTER | 163 |
CHOE INHO ANOTHER MANS ROOM | 181 |
KIM YONGHA LIZARD | 371 |
Bibliography 389 | |