A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature

Kyounghoon Lee

doi:10.5771/9781666906295

Summary

A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature: The Birth of Oppa examines the cultural and social impact of Japanese colonialism and modernity on the wider aspects of everyday life in Korea. Selected as an outstanding work in 2004 by the National Academy of Sciences in South Korea, is by any measure a remarkable work. Lee considers a wide range of literary and cultural texts, exploring significant historical moments and phenomena while critically assessing personal experience and social life, mainly how modernity, colonialism, and total war shaped national and cultural identities. This text also reflects the complex and refractory legacy of Japanese colonialism and modernity. Lee’s foray into the complex relationships between Korea, Japan, and the West offers a thoroughly engaging study of the origins of modern Korean culture and society during the first half of the 20th century. The first of its kind, Lee offers a richly vivid portrait of a rapidly changing landscape, fueled by modernity and technology, one that will appeal to general readers and students alike.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-0628-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-0629-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 282
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1. Nolbu’s Swallow No access
2. The Swallow and the Crow No access
3. The Swallow’s Leg and Ongnyŏn’s Leg No access
4. Walk of “the Cripple” No access
5. Nolbu and “X” No access
6. The Bob: Nolbu’s Fashion No access
7. Notes No access
1. The Sister Complex and Rejecting the Parents No access
2. Oppa, the Form of Youth No access
3. The Custom of Sworn Brothers and Sisters No access
4. The Swallow and the Kisaeng’s Brother No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Custom of Hakurai No access
2. Boilermakers and Hybrids No access
3. 1. “The Shortcut to Delicious Cooking” ”The Civilized Seasoning, Ajinomoto” No access
4. T’ŭrade malk’ŭ and Adalin No access
5. Notes No access
1. Private Tutors and Glass Doors No access
2. The Affection of High Collar Young Women No access
3. The Perspective of the Show Window No access
4. Free Love and Eugenics No access
5. Heartless Fashion: In Lieu of a Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Suicide and Invention No access
2. Ontology of the Clock No access
3. The Space-Time of Free Love No access
4. The Misunderstanding Called Formula No access
5. Inventor and Debtor No access
6. Notes No access
1. The Laboratory and the Rice Exchange No access
2. The Lure of the Sleeping Car, the Desire of the Hot Springs Hotel No access
3. Translated Fate, Exchanged Subjectivity No access
4. Notes No access
1. Spring Garden’s English Grammar No access
2. Playing Field of the Intransitive Verb No access
3. Minjok Reconstruction and Minjok Cyborg No access
4. In Lieu of a Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. A Method for Disposing of the Flesh No access
2. The Museum and Pithecanthropus No access
3. The Ontology of Kudu No access
4. Notes No access
1. A Poor Meal No access
2. A Strange Dinner No access
3. The Taste of Fragrant MJB No access
4. A Foolish Supper No access
5. Mung Bean Fritters and Coupé Bread No access
6. Notes No access
1. Human Lessons: The Starting Point of Liquidation and Affirmation No access
2. The Idea of Calling No access
3. The Tracks of Prospect: From Revolution to Sports No access
4. Rice and Paddies: The Eldest Son of Manchuria No access
5. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
1. Short Stories and Novels No access
2. Poetry No access
3. Essays and Other Texts No access
Index No access Pages 269 - 280
About the Contributors No access Pages 281 - 282