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The Novel in Transition - Gender and Literature in Early Colonial Korea (Hardcover)
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The Novel in Transition - Gender and Literature in Early Colonial Korea (Hardcover)
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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.
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