My Very Last Possession and Other Stories
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capitalist modernization effects
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Chow Chow
Chun Kyung-Ja
Confucian gender roles
contemporary Korean cultural critique
Deeper Purple
Demarcation Line
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Fine Day
Flannel Pajamas
Korean family dynamics
Korean social transformation
Korean War
Man's Lot
military dictatorship
Mother's Daughter
North Korean People's Army
Pak Wan-so
Pak Wanso
postwar Korean society
radical changes
ROK Army
Rose Moss
Shit Truck
Textbook Delivery
Velvet Chair
women's perspectives in literature
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780765604286
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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An anthology of ten short stories by one of Korea's foremost living writers. Pak Wanso is the author of five novels, including The Naked Tree, and of several best-selling volumes of short prose. Her works have sold millions of copies in Korea, where the public and critics alike have applauded Pak as a masterful realist.
The literary world of Pak depicts the trials of the Korean War and the subsequent three decades of upheaval during which Korea was transformed from a military dictatorship and an agriculturally based society to an urban industrialized, albeit troubled, democracy. Pak offers a searching woman's perspective on radical changes in Korean family structures and social values, exposing the cruelty and hypocrisy of Korea's Confucian traditions, which have subjugated women for centuries. Her realistic prose also portrays the dehumanizing impacts of the capitalist market order that characterizes Korea today.
With rich insight, Pak presents moral ambiguities inherent in Korea's society today and encourages her readers to question the injustices that prevail in the more impersonal and often alienated world emerging in a "globalized" Korea.
