A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction

They can also be read as a collective record of a people whose life choices were severely restricted, not just by colonization, but by education (either too little or too much, as the title story shows) and by a highly structured society that had little tolerance for those who overstepped its bounda...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Kim, Chong-un (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [1998]
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Links:https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.21313/9780824864088
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.21313/9780824864088
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.21313/9780824864088
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.21313/9780824864088
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.21313/9780824864088
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.21313/9780824864088
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.21313/9780824864088
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.21313/9780824864088
Zusammenfassung:They can also be read as a collective record of a people whose life choices were severely restricted, not just by colonization, but by education (either too little or too much, as the title story shows) and by a highly structured society that had little tolerance for those who overstepped its boundaries. Life was unremittingly onerous for many Koreans during this period, whatever their social background. In the stories, educated city folk fare little better than farmers and laborers.A Ready-Made Life will provide scholars and students with crucial access to the literature of Korea's colonial period. A generous opening essay discusses the collection in the context of modern Korean literary history, and short introductions precede each story. Here is a richly diverse testament to a modern literature that is poised to assume a long overdue place in world literature
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)
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ISBN:9780824864088