Spencer Lee-Lenfield: “Why So Serious?”

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Spencer Lee-Lenfield: “Why So Serious?”

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Article: https://yalereview.org/article/sang-young-park-queer-fiction
Journal: The Yale Review
Issued Date: May 16, 2022
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED STATES
City: New Haven
Book: Love in the Big City , Love in the Big City
Writer: Park Sang Young
Translator: Anton Hur

About the Author

Sang Young Park
Birth : 1988 ~ -
Occupation : Writer
First Name : Sang Young
Family Name : Park
Korean Name : 박상영
ISNI : 000000046826239X
Works : 14

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English(English)

QUEER FICTION TODAY tends toward the serious and bleak, telling stories of suffering either fatal or heroically redeemed. Even in countries where queer marriages are legally recognized, assimilation to the heterosexual comic marriage plot has (understandably) attracted little enthusiasm from writers, publishers, or readers. And in places where anything other than heterosexuality is threatened or suppressed, it is even easier to assume that all queer narratives must trace arcs of martyrdom, raging against social persecution in a doomed quest for a better world. As a result, most of the foreign-language queer fiction that reaches English through translation tells stories of great suffering punctuated by occasional flashes of passion. Rarely do these books sustain much humor.

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French(Français) Book Available
Poésie coréenne contemporaine
Kim Ok et al / 김억 et al / 1991
English(English) Book Available
Modern Korean Poetry
Han Yong-un et al / 한용운 et al / 1994
Japanese(日本語) Book Available
大都会の愛し方
Sang Young Park et al / 박상영 / 2020