| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 341
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 341.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index. |
| Contents |
A journey into the abyss -- Love -- War -- Self -- On the social and the political. |
| Summary |
In this innovative book, Sonia Ryang casts new light onto the study of North Korean culture and society by reading literary texts as sources of ethnographic data. Analyzing and interpreting the rituals and language embodied in a range of literary works published in the 1970s and 1980s, Ryang focuses critical attention on three central themes -- love, war, and self -- that reflect the nearly complete overlap of the personal, social, and political realms in North Korean society. The ideology embedded in these propagandistic works laid the cultural foundation for the nation as a "perpetual ritual state," where social structures and personal relations are suspended in tribute to Kim Il Sung, the political and spiritual leader who died in 1994 but lives eternally in the hearts of his people and still weaves the social fabric of present-day North Korea. -- Book jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Korean literature -- Korea (North) -- History and criticism.
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Korean literature. |
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Korea (North) |
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Literature and society -- Korea (North)
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Literature and society. |
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Ethnology -- Korea (North)
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Ethnology. |
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Korea (North) -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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HISTORY / Social History. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ryang, Sonia. Reading North Korea. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, [2012] 9780674062474 (DLC) 2011046702 (OCoLC)709670286 |
| ISBN |
9781684175154 (electronic book) |
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1684175151 (electronic book) |
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9780674062474 |
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0674062477 |
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