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Rat Fire

Title Sub
Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire
Author
Park Young-hee
Co-Author
SONG YONG , Ch`oe Sŏhae , Cho Myŏng-hŭi , Yi Hyo-Sŏk , Kim Namchon , Baek Sinae , Yi Ki-yong , Kang Kyŏng-ae , Yi Nam-wŏn
Translator
Theodore Hughes,Samuel Perry,Jin-kyung Lee,Ross King,Kang Young-Ji,Kimberly Chung,Mee Chang
Publisher
Cornell East Asia Series
Published Year
2013
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection & Library (more than 2 writers)

Original Title
서화: 식민지 시대 프로레타리아 문학선집
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Seohwa: singminji sidae peuroretaria munhakseonjip
ISBN
9781933947679
Page
448
Volume
-
Writer default image
  • Park Young-hee
  • Birth : 1901 ~ 1950
  • Occupation : Novelist, Poet
  • First Name : Young-hee
  • Family Name : Park
  • Korean Name : 박영희
  • ISNI : 0000000049118334
  • Works : 3
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 810.9 이기영 식-테 LTI Korea Library Available - -
Descriptions
  • English(English)

Proletarian writing dominated the colonial Korean literary scene from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s and left a lasting legacy in the later, post-1945 literatures of North and South Korea. Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire brings together thirteen short stories by colonial Korean writers, as well as two works written in 1946 under U.S. military occupation. Political cartoons, illustrations, newspaper clippings, and photographs--over sixty included in the volume--place the works of Korean writers in close conversation with the rich history of colonial proletarian visual culture. This anthology moves across verbal and visual media and geographical borders, following characters making their way through disintegrating rural areas and flourishing colonial urban centers, from the alluring margins of the Japanese metropole to the expanding Manchurian frontier. Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire broadens and complicates the definition of the colonial Korean proletarian culture movement. In this volume, writers and artists confront the shifting boundaries of ethnicity/race, class, and culture that were reconfiguring both colonial Korea and the Japanese metropolitan center in the context of global imperialism in the first half of the twentieth century.

Contributing translators: Ruth Barraclough, Mee Chang, Kimberly Chung, Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton, Theodore Hughes, Young-Ji Kang, I Jonathan Kief, Ross King, Jin-kyung Lee, Samuel Perry, Christina Yi

 

Source : http://www.amazon.com/Rat-Fire-Korean-Stories-Japanese/dp/1933947675