The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration
Introduction—Redefined and Challenged: Anthologizing Korean Literary Studies
Part I Premodern and Early Modern Korean Literature
	Section I Manuscript Culture, Materiality, Performativity
		1 Manuscript, Not Print, in the Book World of Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910)
		2 Performing Vernacular: Textual Practices as Bodily Events in Premodern Korea
	Section II Print, Medium, Transregional Interactions
		3 Books for the Illiterate: The Haengsil-to (Illustrated Guide for Moral Deeds) of Chosŏn Korea
		4 Print and Transnational Referentiality: Nam Kong-ch’ŏl’s Printing of Kŭmnŭng chip
	Section III Novel, Gender Dynamics, Transgression
		5 The Elite Vernacular Korean Culture of Chosŏn (1392–1910): Indeterminacy, Hybridity, Strangeness
		6 Lovesickness and Death in Seventeenth-Century Korean Literature
	Section IV Language and Writing, Vernacular, Hybridity
		7 Idu in and as Korean Literature
		8 Hybrid Orthographies and the Emergence of Modern Literature in Early Twentieth-Century Korea
Part II Modernity and the Colonial Period
	Section I Gender and Sexuality
		9 Capital, Gender, and Modernity in Colonial Korean Literature
		10 Sexual Violence and Its Ideological Labor: Imagining Masculinist Equality and Androcentric Ethnos in Colonial Korean Literature
	Section II Translation and Crossing
		11 Incongruent Reflections: Translation and Bilingual Writings in Colonial Korea
		12 The Japanese “Café France”: Chŏng Chi-yong and Self-Translation
		13 Nonsense as Sensibility: The Importance of Not Being Earnest in Colonial Korea and Taiwan
	Section III Modernity and Coloniality
		14 Language, Science, and the Status of Truth in Late Colonial Korea
		15 A Minor Modernist’s Conundrum of Representation: Kim Saryang and the Colonized I-Novel
		16 Rewriting the City: Yi Sang, Architecture, and the Figure of the Department Store
	Section IV Art and Politics
		17 A Forgotten Aesthetic: Reportage in Colonial Korea, 1920s–1930s
		18 Conversion Literature (chŏnhyang sosŏl) and the Inward Gaze in the Late Colonial Period
Part III Liberation and Contemporary Korean Literature
	Section I Decolonization, Cold War, Humanism
		19 Decolonizing Literature: Bridging Political Divides in the Post-Liberation Period
		20 Vitalism and Existentialism in Early South Korean Literature
		21 Humanism as a Problem of Empire in Modern Korean Literature
	Section II Politics, Memory, Orality
		22 Gender and Class Dynamics in the Utilitarian Discourse of the Developmental State and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South Korea
		23 (Dis)embodiment of Memory: Gender, Memory, and Ethics in Human Acts by Han Kang
		24 Continuing Orality in Korean Poetry: Opening a P’an for the Page
	Section III Race, Diaspora, Intersectionality
		25 Ŏmma’s Baby, Appa’s Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of Diaspora
		26 Intersecting Korean Diasporas
		27 Whose Korea Is It? Reading Zainichi Literature Intersectionally
	Section IV Division and North Korean Literature
		28 Closed Borders and Open Letters in the Cold War Koreas
		29 A Good Wife Is Hard to Find: North Korean Women in Fiction
		30 Children’s Literature in South and North Korea
Part IV Queer Studies, World Literature, the Digital Humanities
	Section I Queer Reading and Affect
		31 Forms of Attachment: Ardent Female Intimacies in 1920s Korea
		32 The Poet and the Theater: Perverse Reading and Queer Poetry
	Section II World Literature, Global Connections, the Digital Humanities
		33 World Literature, Korean Literature, and the Medical and Health Humanities
		34 Global Korea and World Literature
		35 The Text-Mining of Culture: The Case of a Popular Magazine in 1930s Korea
Appendix: A Comprehensive List of English Translations of Korean Literature
Index