Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost

Name: Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost
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ISBN: 9780231153119

ISBN-10: 0231153112

ISBN-13: 9780231153119

Edition: 2010

Authors: Sok-pom Kim, Cindi Textor, Kim Sok-Pom

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A central work of postwar Japanese fiction, The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghostincorporates Korean folk tales, ghost stories, and myth into a phenomenal depiction of epic tragedy. Written by a zainichi, a permanent resident of Japan who is not of Japanese ancestry, the novel inventively imagines a long-supressed event in Japanese colonial history-the Cheju Uprising of 1948-and captures in style and substance the predicament of Koreans living under Japanese rule.Kim Sok-pom tells the story of Mandogi, a young priest living on the island of Cheju-do. Mandogi becomes unwittingly involved in the Four-Three Incident of 1948, in which the South Korean government brutally suppressed an armed…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/29/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.82" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English