Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature

Regular price €61.50
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
border studies
Category=DSBH
Colonial Korea
decolonisation in Korean fiction
Detective Fiction
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
ethnic identity discourse
Great Divide
Kim Il Sung
Kim's Works
Kim’s Works
Korean Authors
korean fiction
Korean Literary History
korean literature
korean poetry
Korean Writers
koreanliterature handbook
Lin Zexu
Maeil Sinbo
Main Characters
media and literature interface
Minjung Movement
modern korean literature
Nanjing Treaty
North Korean Literature
postcolonial literary theory
Proletarian Culture Movement
Radio Novel
Si Wa
South Korean
Southern Korea
Taedong River
translation studies
transnational narratives
Yi Kwangsu
Young Men
Zainichi Writers

Product details

  • ISBN 9781032237220
  • Weight: 900g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Dec 2021
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns

The Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature provides a comprehensive overview of a Korean literary tradition, which is understood as a multifaceted nexus of practices, both homegrown and transnational.

The handbook discusses the perspectives from which modern Korean literature has thus far been defined, analyzing which voices have been enunciated, underappreciated, or completely silenced and how we can enrich our understanding of it. Taking up diverse transnational and interdisciplinary standpoints, this volume aims to encourage readers not to treat modern Korean literature as a self-evident category but to examine it anew as an uncultivated and uncharted space, unearthing its internal chasms and global connections. Divided into five parts, the themes covered include the following:

  • Literature and power
  • Borders and boundaries
  • Rationality in literature and its limits
  • Language, ethnicity, and translation
  • Korean literature in the changing mediascape.

By introducing new conceptual paradigms to the field of modern Korean literature, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Korean, East Asian, and world literature alike.

Yoon Sun Yang is associate professor of Korean and comparative literature at Boston University, US. She is the author of From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea (2017).