KOREA: NEW WAVE LITERATURE AS WOMEN’S LIBERATION

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KOREA: NEW WAVE LITERATURE AS WOMEN’S LIBERATION

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Article: https://asiamedia.lmu.edu/2020/05/02/korea-new-wave-literature-as-womens-liberation/
Journal: Asia Media international
Issued Date: May 07, 2020
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED STATES
City: -
Book: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Writer: Cho Nam-ju
Translator: Jamie Chang

About the Author

Cho Nam-ju
Birth : 1978 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Nam-ju
Family Name : Cho
Korean Name : 조남주
ISNI : 0000000460558831
Works : 66

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ANDREA PLATE WRITES – (This is the first in an original series about new wave feminist writers in Korea). It was big news in 2016 when the novel Kim Ji-young, 1982, by author Cho Nam-Joo, awakened a semi-somnolent women’s movement in South Korea. The book sold one million copies—only the second novel in the country’s history to do so. The novel made news again this April, when an English language version, beautifully translated by Jamie Chang, an award-winning teacher at the Ewha Womans University in Seoul, was published in the U.S. “Literature is news that stays new,’” said the famously noted American poet, critic and expatriate Ezra Pound.

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