Modern Korean fiction
Subtitle: an anthology
By: Bruce Fulton and Youngmin Kwon.
Contributors: Fulton, Bruce.; Kwŏn, Yŏng-min, 1948-
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780231135122; 9780231135139
Subjects: Korean fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English; Short stories, Korean -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses political borders. By including stories from neglected female, North Korean, and wolbuk writers (those who migrated to the North after 1945 and whose works were widely banned in South Korea) and by bringing politically engaged works together with experimental ones, this anthology articulates the ruptures and resolutions that have marked the peninsula. From sketches of desperate peasants in straitened circumstances to fast-moving, visceral tales of contemporary South Korea, the works in this collection bear witness to the dramatic transformations and events in twentieth-century Korean history, including Japanese colonial rule, civil war, and economic modernization in the South. The writers explore these developments through a variety of literary and political lenses, revealing with precision and poignancy their impact on Korean society and the lives of ordinary Koreans. This anthology includes an introduction, which synthesizes the key developments in modern Korean literature, and a comprehensive bibliography of Korean fiction in translation. -- Back cover.
Notes: Gift of the Korea Foundation.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-[389]).