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Author Kim, Chul, 1951- author.

Title Reading colonial Korea through fiction : the ventriloquists / Kim Chul ; translated by Hye-Joon Yoon.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 129 pages)
Series Critical Studies in Korean Literature and Culture in Translation
Critical studies in Korean literature and culture in translation.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction; Critical Studies in Korean Literature and Culture in Translation; Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction: The Ventriloquists; Contents; Preface; Note on Romanization; Foreword; Chapter 1; Yo-dokari Tablet; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 2; 'Oily touches on a canvas, stroking and scattering the pigments'; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 3; 'What Brings You Here?'; Works Cited; Chapter 4; 'The law is not afraid of yangban, is it?'; Note; Works Cited; Chapter 5; 'To talk it over in English'; Works Cited; Chapter 6; 'Love is blind'
Summary This study examines the roots of modern Korean fiction and its origin in the Japanese colonial period. These essays highlight the intimate connection between modernity and colonialism and provide a wide-ranging investigation into how the language and literature of Korean society was constructed.
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Subject Korean fiction -- 1919-1945 -- History and criticism.
Politics and literature -- Korea -- History.
Korean fiction -- Japanese influences.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Korean fiction
Politics and literature
Korea
Chronological Term 1919-1945
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Added Author Yoon, Hye-Joon, 1962- translator.
Other Form: Print version: Kim, Chul, 1951- Reading colonial Korea through fiction. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2018 9781498565684 (DLC) 2017058896
ISBN 9781498565691 (electronic book)
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