The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature (Routledge Literature Companions)

__The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature__ consists of thirty-five chapters written by leaders in the field who explore significant topics and who have pioneered innovative approaches. The collection highlights the most dynamic current scholarship on Korean literature, presenting rigorous literary analysis, interdisciplinary methodologies, and transregional thinking so as to provide a valuable and inspiring resource for researchers and students alike. This __Companion__ has particular significance as the most extensive collection to date of English-language articles on Korean literature; it both offers a thorough intellectual engagement with current scholarship and addresses a broad range of topics and time periods, from premodern to contemporary. It will contribute to an understanding of literature as part of a broad sociocultural process that aims to put the field into conversation with other fields of study in the humanities and social sciences. While presenting rigorous and innovative academic research that will be useful to graduate students and postgraduate researchers, the chapters in the collection are written to be accessible to the average upper-level undergraduate student and include only minimal use of academic jargon. In an effort to provide substantially helpful material for researching, teaching, and learning Korean literature, this __Companion__ includes as an appendix an extensive list of English translations of Korean literature. The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature consists of 35 chapters written by leaders in the field, who explore significant topics and who have pioneered innovative approaches. The collection highlights the most dynamic current scholarship on Korean literature, presenting rigorous literary analysis, interdisciplinary methodologies, and transregional thinking so as to provide a valuable and inspiring resource for researchers and students alike. This Companion has particular significance as the most extensive collection to date of English-language articles on Korean literature; it both offers a thorough intellectual engagement with current scholarship and addresses a broad range of topics and time periods, from premodern to contemporary. It will contribute to an understanding of literature as part of a broad sociocultural process that aims to put the field into conversation with other fields of study in the humanities and social sciences. While presenting rigorous and innovative academic research that will be useful to graduate students and researchers, the chapters in the collection are written to be accessible to the average upper-level undergraduate student and include only minimal use of academic jargon. In an effort to provide substantially helpful material for researching, teaching, and learning Korean literature, this Companion includes as an appendix an extensive list of English translations of Korean literature. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 11 List of Tables 12 List of Contributors 13 Acknowledgments 20 Notes on Transliteration 21 Introduction—Redefined and Challenged: Anthologizing Korean Literary Studies 22 Part I Premodern and Early Modern Korean Literature 36 Section I Manuscript Culture, Materiality, Performativity 38 1 Manuscript, Not Print, in the Book World of Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) 40 2 Performing Vernacular: Textual Practices as Bodily Events in Premodern Korea 60 Section II Print, Medium, Transregional Interactions 76 3 Books for the Illiterate: The Haengsil-to (Illustrated Guide for Moral Deeds) of Chosŏn Korea 78 4 Print and Transnational Referentiality: Nam Kong-ch’ŏl’s Printing of Kŭmnŭng chip 96 Section III Novel, Gender Dynamics, Transgression 112 5 The Elite Vernacular Korean Culture of Chosŏn (1392–1910): Indeterminacy, Hybridity, Strangeness 114 6 Lovesickness and Death in Seventeenth-Century Korean Literature 129 Section IV Language and Writing, Vernacular, Hybridity 142 7 Idu in and as Korean Literature 144 8 Hybrid Orthographies and the Emergence of Modern Literature in Early Twentieth-Century Korea 162 Part II Modernity and the Colonial Period 178 Section I Gender and Sexuality 180 9 Capital, Gender, and Modernity in Colonial Korean Literature 182 10 Sexual Violence and Its Ideological Labor: Imagining Masculinist Equality and Androcentric Ethnos in Colonial Korean Literature 194 Section II Translation and Crossing 206 11 Incongruent Reflections: Translation and Bilingual Writings in Colonial Korea 208 12 The Japanese “Café France”: Chŏng Chi-yong and Self-Translation 220 13 Nonsense as Sensibility: The Importance of Not Being Earnest in Colonial Korea and Taiwan 233 Section III Modernity and Coloniality 248 14 Language, Science, and the Status of Truth in Late Colonial Korea 250 15 A Minor Modernist’s Conundrum of Representation: Kim Saryang and the Colonized I-Novel 266 16 Rewriting the City: Yi Sang, Architecture, and the Figure of the Department Store 278 Section IV Art and Politics 292 17 A Forgotten Aesthetic: Reportage in Colonial Korea, 1920s–1930s 294 18 Conversion Literature (chŏnhyang sosŏl) and the Inward Gaze in the Late Colonial Period 309 Part III Liberation and Contemporary Korean Literature 320 Section I Decolonization, Cold War, Humanism 322 19 Decolonizing Literature: Bridging Political Divides in the Post-Liberation Period 324 20 Vitalism and Existentialism in Early South Korean Literature 337 21 Humanism as a Problem of Empire in Modern Korean Literature 351 Section II Politics, Memory, Orality 364 22 Gender and Class Dynamics in the Utilitarian Discourse of the Developmental State and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea 366 23 (Dis)embodiment of Memory: Gender, Memory, and Ethics in Human Acts by Han Kang 378 24 Continuing Orality in Korean Poetry: Opening a P’an for the Page 392 Section III Race, Diaspora, Intersectionality 404 25 Ŏmma’s Baby, Appa’s Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of Diaspora 406 26 Intersecting Korean Diasporas 420 27 Whose Korea Is It? Reading Zainichi Literature Intersectionally 433 Section IV Division and North Korean Literature 446 28 Closed Borders and Open Letters in the Cold War Koreas 448 29 A Good Wife Is Hard to Find: North Korean Women in Fiction 462 30 Children’s Literature in South and North Korea 474 Part IV Queer Studies, World Literature, the Digital Humanities 490 Section I Queer Reading and Affect 492 31 Forms of Attachment: Ardent Female Intimacies in 1920s Korea 494 32 The Poet and the Theater: Perverse Reading and Queer Poetry 509 Section II World Literature, Global Connections, the Digital Humanities 524 33 World Literature, Korean Literature, and the Medical and Health Humanities 526 34 Global Korea and World Literature 537 35 The Text-Mining of Culture: The Case of a Popular Magazine in 1930s Korea 549 Appendix: A Comprehensive List of English Translations of Korean Literature 568 Index 716 Early,Modern,Korean;,Transregional,Interactions;,Bilingual,Writings;,World,Literature Early Modern Korean,Transregional Interactions,Bilingual Writings,World Literature "The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature consists of thirty-five chapters written by leaders in the field who explore significant topics and who have pioneered innovative approaches. The collection highlights the most dynamic current scholarship on Korean literature, presenting rigorous literary analysis, interdisciplinary methodologies, and transregional thinking so as to provide a valuable and inspiring resource for researchers and students alike. This Companion has particular significance as the most extensive collection to date of English-language articles on Korean literature; it both offers a thorough intellectual engagement with current scholarship and addresses a broad range of topics and time periods, from premodern to contemporary. It will contribute to an understanding of literature as part of a broad sociocultural process that aims to put the field into conversation with other fields of study in the humanities and social sciences. While presenting rigorous and innovative academic research that will be useful to graduate students and postgraduate researchers, the chapters in the collection are written to be accessible to the average upper-level undergraduate student and include only minimal use of academic jargon. In an effort to provide substantially helpful material for researching, teaching, and learning Korean literature, this Companion includes as an appendix an extensive list of English translations of Korean literature"-- Provided by publisher