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Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction

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Title Sub
The Ventriloquists
Author
Kim Chul
Co-Author
-
Translator
Hye-joon Yoon
Publisher
Lexington Books
Published Year
2018
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > History of Korean Literature > Literary Criticism > 1910-1945

Original Title
복화술사들
Romanization of Original
Bokwasulsadeul
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9781498565691
Page
-
Series
OverDrive Read

About the Author

  • Kim Chul
  • Birth : - ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : Professor
  • First Name : Chul
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김철
  • ISNI : 0000000052815632
  • Works : 2
About the Original Work
  • 복화술사들
  • Author : Kim Chul
  • Published Year : 2008
  • English Title : Reading Colonial Korea Through Fiction: The Ventriloquists
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction is a compilation of thirteen original essays which was first serialized in a quarterly issued by the National Institute of Korean Language, Saekukŏsaenghwal (Living our National Language Anew) in a column entitled, "Our Fiction, Our Language" between 2004 to 2007. Although the original intent of the Institute was to elucidate on important features particular to "national fiction" and the superiority of "national language," instead Kim Chul's astute essays offers a completely different reading of how national literature and language was constructed. Through a series of culturally nuanced readings, Kim links the formation and origins of Korean language and fiction to modernity and traces its origins to the Japanese colonial period while demonstrating in a very lucid way how colonialism constitutes modernity and how all modernity is perforce colonial, given the imperial crucibles from which modernist claims emerged. For Kim, denying this reality can only lead to violent distortions as he eschews appeals to a preexisting framework, preferring instead to ground his theoretical insights in subtle, innovative readings of texts themselves.

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Translated Books2

  • English(English) Book
    Reading Colonial Korea Through Fiction
    Kim Chul / 김철 / 2018 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > History of Korean Literature > Literary Criticism > 1910-1945
  • Japanese(日本語) Book
    植民地の腹話術師たち
    金哲 / 김철 / 2017 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > History of Korean Literature > Literary Criticism > 1910-1945
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