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Author Kim, Chul, 1951- author

Title Reading colonial Korea through fiction : the ventriloquists / Kim Chul ; translated by Hye-Joon Yoon
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 129 pages)
Series Critical Studies in Korean Literature and Culture in Translation
Critical studies in Korean literature and culture in translation.
Contents Cover; Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction; Critical Studies in Korean Literature and Culture in Translation; Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction: The Ventriloquists; Contents; Preface; Note on Romanization; Foreword; Chapter 1; Yo-dokari Tablet; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 2; 'Oily touches on a canvas, stroking and scattering the pigments'; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 3; 'What Brings You Here?'; Works Cited; Chapter 4; 'The law is not afraid of yangban, is it?'; Note; Works Cited; Chapter 5; 'To talk it over in English'; Works Cited; Chapter 6; 'Love is blind'
Summary This study examines the roots of modern Korean fiction and its origin in the Japanese colonial period. These essays highlight the intimate connection between modernity and colonialism and provide a wide-ranging investigation into how the language and literature of Korean society was constructed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 25, 2018)
Subject Korean fiction -- 1919-1945 -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Korea -- History
Korean fiction -- Japanese influences
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Korean fiction
Politics and literature
Korea
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Yoon, Hye-Joon, 1962- translator.
LC no. 2018004747
ISBN 9781498565691
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