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Author:

Yang, Yoon Sun, author.

Title:

From domestic women to sensitive young men : translating the individual in early colonial Korea / Yoon Sun Yang.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xii, 211 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Korean literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Korean literature--Western influences.
Individuality in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Individuality in literature.
Korean literature.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-202) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Enlightened daughter, benighted mother -- From female ghosts to ghostly womanhood -- Unbound desire : femme fatales in the fin-de-siècle scene -- Sapphic marriage and radical domesticity -- Sensitive young men and the private desire for progress -- Coda.

Summary:

Examines how the European notion of the individual put down its roots in Korean literature, especially through literary figures, in the early twentieth century. Using Korean literary examples, it calls into question the belief that there is only one kind of individuality transferable across cultural, temporal, and gender boundaries."-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 405

ISBN:

0674976975
9780674976979

OCLC:

(OCoLC)978712554

LCCN:

2016055283

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)