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Since the 1930s, Korean American writers have come to maintain an
important place in our national literature, publishing some of the
most exciting fiction of the twentieth century. The stories in this
first anthology of Korean American fiction represent the very best
work of these writers, including several pieces published for the
first time.
Contributors include Patti Kim, Chang-rae Lee, Susan Choi, Heinz
Insu Fenkl, Leonard Chang, Nora Okja Keller, and Richard E. Kim.
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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Treadwinds (Paperback)
Walter K Lew
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Since the early 1970s, the Korean American poet and scholar Walter
K. Lew has produced innovative works ranging from linked-verse
elegies for jazz musicians and multimedia "movietelling"
performances to pioneering poetry anthologies and TV documentaries.
Treadwinds collects much of Lew's poetry for the first time and
arranges it into five thematic sections: his family's experience of
Korea's turbulent history; death; the aesthetics of music and
painting; eroticism; and mal, which connotes Baudelarian evil in
modernist literature, but means "language" in Korean.
Some poems include Korean and Japanese texts, while the title poem
accompanies six collages by filmmaker Lewis Klahr. Evident
throughout is Lew's devotion to obscured aesthetic traditions,
political critique, spiritual redemption and the creation of new
meaning across media and between zones of culture.
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