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Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction - The Ventriloquists (Hardcover)
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Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction - The Ventriloquists (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Studies in Korean Literature and Culture in Translation
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Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction is a compilation of thirteen
original essays which was first serialized in a quarterly issued by
the National Institute of Korean Language, Saekukosaenghwal (Living
our National Language Anew) in a column entitled, "Our Fiction, Our
Language" between 2004 to 2007. Although the original intent of the
Institute was to elucidate on important features particular to
"national fiction" and the superiority of "national language,"
instead Kim Chul's astute essays offers a completely different
reading of how national literature and language was constructed.
Through a series of culturally nuanced readings, Kim links the
formation and origins of Korean language and fiction to modernity
and traces its origins to the Japanese colonial period while
demonstrating in a very lucid way how colonialism constitutes
modernity and how all modernity is perforce colonial, given the
imperial crucibles from which modernist claims emerged. For Kim,
denying this reality can only lead to violent distortions as he
eschews appeals to a preexisting framework, preferring instead to
ground his theoretical insights in subtle, innovative readings of
texts themselves.
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