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The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Sunyoung Park
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Description for The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Hardcover. From the 1910s to the 1940s, a wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist groups swept the Korean cultural scene with differing agendas but shared demands for equality and social justice. Sunyoung Park reconstructs the complex mosaic of colonial leftist culture, focusing on literature as its most fertile and enduring expression. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSB; HBJF; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 634.
Socialist doctrines had an important influence on Korean writers and intellectuals of the early twentieth century. From the 1910s through the 1940s, a veritable wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist groups swept the cultural scene with differing agendas as well as shared demands for equality and social justice. In The Proletarian Wave, Sunyoung Park reconstructs the complex mosaic of colonial leftist culture by focusing on literature as its most fertile and enduring expression. The book combines a general overview of the literary left with the intellectual portraits of four writers whose works exemplify the stylistic range and colonial ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674417175
SKU
V9780674417175
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About Sunyoung Park
Sunyoung Park is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.
Reviews for The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
A major contribution to the scholarship on culture, capitalism, and colonialism in modern Korea. Park retrieves a critical history long suppressed by the political orthodoxies of North and South Korea and makes an eloquent case for the proletarian wave’s continued importance in our current postcolonial, ‘post-ideological’ age.
Charles K. Armstrong, Columbia University Those interested in the social movements of ... Read more
Charles K. Armstrong, Columbia University Those interested in the social movements of ... Read more