The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Synopsis

Provides The First Historical Account In English Of The Complex Interrelations Of Literature And Socialist Ideology In Colonial Korea. It Details The Origins, Development, And Influence Of A Movement That Has Shaped Twentieth-century Korean Politics And Aesthetics Alike Through An Analysis That Simultaneously Engages Some Of The Most Debated And Pressing Issues Of Literary Historiography, Marxist Criticism, And Postcolonial Cultural Studies--provided By The Publisher. List Of Plates And Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List Of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Backgrounds -- The Left In Colonial Korea : A Contextual Account -- Part 2. Landscapes -- The Proletarian Wave : An Anatomy Of The Literary Left -- Leftist Literature And Cultural Modernity: A Critical Overview -- Part 3. Portraits -- Translating The Proletariat : Debates And Literary Experience Of The Kapf -- Confessing The Colonial Self : Yom Sangsop's Literary Ethnographies Of The Proletarian Nation -- Rethinking Feminism In Colonial Korea : Kang Kyongae's Portraits Of Proletarian Women -- Everyday Life As Critique : Kim Namch'on's Literary Experiments -- Conclusion. Sunyoung Park. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.