Modern Korean Fiction An Anthology

Name: Modern Korean Fiction An Anthology
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ISBN: 9780231135139

ISBN-10: 0231135130

ISBN-13: 9780231135139

Edition: 2005

Authors: Bruce Fulton, Bruce Fulton

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To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses political borders. By including stories from neglected female, North Korean, and wlbuk writers (those who migrated to the North after 1945 and whose works were widely banned in South Korea) and by bringing politically engaged works together with experimental ones, this anthology articulates the ruptures and resolutions that have marked the peninsula. From sketches of desperate peasants in straitened circumstances to fast-moving, visceral tales of contemporary South Korea, the works in this collection bear witness to the dramatic…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 8/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Bruce Fulton occupies the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation at the University of British Columbia. He is coeditor of Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers, Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction, and A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction.Youngmin Kwon is professor of Korean literature at Seoul National University.



Preface


Introduction



A Lucky Day (Unsu Choun Nal, 1924)




Potatoes (Kamja, 1925)




Crows (Kkamagwi, 1936)




The Shaman Painting (Munyodo, 1936)




The White Rabbit (Ok T'Okki, 1936)




Wings (Nalgae, 1936)




When the Buckwheat Blooms (Memil Kkot P'il Muryop, 1936)




My Innocent Uncle (Ch'Isuk, 1938)




The Ritual At The Well (Umul Ch'inun P'Unggyong, 1948)




Coarse Sand (Wang Morae, 1953)




Far from Home (T'arhyang, 1955)




Seoul: 1964, Winter (Soul, 1964 Nyon Kyoul, 1965)




Another Man's Room (T'ain Ui Pang, 1971)




The Son (1971)




Knifeblade (K'allal, 1975)




Ballad (T'aryong, 1976)




Footprints in the Snow (Nunkil, 1977)




The Old Hatter (Sarajin Kot Tur Ul Wihayo, 1979)




Mother's Hitching Post (Omma Ui Malttuk 2, 1980)




Wayfarer (Sullyeja Ui Norae, 1983)




The Gray Snowman (Hoesaek Nunsaram, 1992)




Lizard (Tomabaem, 1997)



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