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The novel in transition : gender and literature in early colonial Korea
- Title
- The novel in transition : gender and literature in early colonial Korea / Jooyeon Rhee.
- Author
- Rhee, Jooyeon
- Publication
- Ithaca, New York : East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2019.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 222 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Having been marginalized from the literature-proper sphere of Confucian elite culture, the novel began to transform significantly at turn of the twentieth century in Korea. Selected novels in transformation that Jooyeon Rhee investigates in this book include both translated and creative historical novels, domestic novels, and crime novels, all of which were produced under the spell of civilization and enlightenment. Rhee places the transformation of the novel in the complex nexus of civilization discourses, transnational literary forces, and modern print media to show how they became a driving force behind the development of modern Korean literature. Gender is an analytical category central to this book since it became an important epistemological ground on which to define the Korean nation and modernity in literature at the time, and because the novel was one of the most effective technologies that mediated and populated knowledge about gender roles and relations. The masculine norms and principles articulated in novels, Rhee argues, are indicative of writers' and translators' negotiation with political and cultural forces of the time; their observations of the ambiguity of modernity manifest in the figure of mobile, motivated, and forward-looking woman and immobile, emotional, and suppressed men.
- Series Statement
- Cornell East Asia Series ; number 196
- Uniform Title
- Cornell East Asia series ; 196.
- Alternative Title
- Gender and literature in early colonial Korea
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6913
- ISBN
- 1939161061
- 9781939161062
- 9781939161963
- 1939161967
- OCLC
- 1083033400
- Author
- Rhee, Jooyeon, author.
- Title
- The novel in transition : gender and literature in early colonial Korea / Jooyeon Rhee.
- Publisher
- Ithaca, New York : East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cornell East Asia Series ; number 196Cornell East Asia series ; 196.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1894-1919
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6913