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Love of the Missing: Modern Korean Fiction by Women, 1990-2010 | LIST

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http://list.or.kr/content/love-missing-modern-korean-fiction-women-1990-2010
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list_Books from Korea
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Language
English(English)
Country
SOUTH KOREA
City
Seoul
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Writer
Choe Yun , Han Kang , Cheon Un-yeong , Kang Young-sook , Jeong Yi Hyun , Lee Hong , Kim Miwol , Kim Sagwa

About the Author

  • Choe Yun
  • Birth : 1953 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Yun
  • Family Name : Choe
  • Korean Name : 최윤
  • ISNI : 0000000115702521
  • Works : 27
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Love of the Missing: Modern Korean Fiction by Women, 1990-2010   By Hur Yoonjin on Nov 11 2014 01:10:01 Vol.12 Summer 2011 As Korean women writers move beyond the label of “women” and are recognized as “writers,” a new aesthetic and modern concerns emerge.     Prior to the Enlightenment Period, Hangeul was often disdained in Korea— or more precisely, the Joseon era as it was known then—as “female writing,” meaning it was a writing system befitting only women. During the Enlightenment, however, Hanmun (classical Chinese), which had played the same role as Latin in East Asia, was replaced by the Korean vernacular, and Hangeul, which had previously been used only by the lower classes, naturally became the official writing system. In the hundred or so years since, women who used to be denigrated as yoryu (“female”) have distinguished themselves with their masterful use of artistic language. As modern education for women took deep root in Korean society, women became active beneficiaries of knowledge transmitted through language and, as a result, their self-awakening began to materialize. By the 1990s, women, no longer a minority in need of special protection, had emerged the mainstream in literature. Even in literary criticism, once the exclusive domain of men, women critics—who understood the value of women’s literature and could subject it to proper critical examination— became actively involved. The literature of women writers received such high praise and captured the attention of both the market and critics that the 1990s could even be called the decade of women writers.      There, a Petal Silently Falls Ch'oe Yun, Moonji Publishing Co., Ltd. 1992, 312p, ISBN 9788932005782

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