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Imperatives of Culture - Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era (Hardcover)
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Imperatives of Culture - Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era (Hardcover)
Series: Korean Classics Library: Historical Materials
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This volume contains translations—many appearing for the first
time in the English language—of major literary, critical, and
historical essays from the colonial period (1910–1945) in Korea.
Considered representative of the debates among and between Korean
and Japanese thinkers of the colonial period, these texts shed
light on relatively unexplored aspects of intellectual life and
take part in current conversations around the nature of the
colonial experience and its effects on post-liberation Korean
society and culture. The essays, each preceded by a scholarly
introduction giving necessary historical and biographical context,
represent a diverse spectrum of ideological positions and showcase
the complexity of intellectual life and scholarship in colonial
Korea. They allow new perspectives on an important period in Korean
history, a period that continues to inform political, social, and
cultural life in crucial ways across East Asia. The translations
also provide an important counterpoint to the imperial archive from
the perspective of the colonized and take part in the ongoing
reevaluation of the colonial period and “colonial modernity” in
both Western and East Asian scholarship. Imperatives of Culture is
intended in part for the increasing number of undergraduate and
graduate students in Korean studies as well as for those engaged in
the study of East Asia as a whole and a general, educated audience
with interests in modern Korea and East Asia. The essays have been
carefully selected and introduced in ways that open up avenues for
comparison with analyses of colonial literature and history in
other national contexts.
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