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The volume includes stories by Chong Ch’u-wol, Kim Ch’ang-saeng, Kim Hak-yong, Kim Sa-ryang, Kim Tal-su, Noguchi Kakuchu, Yi Yang-ji, and Yu Miri. Into the Light is the first anthology to introduce the fiction of Japan’s Korean community (Zainichi Koreans) to the English-speaking world.
The literary history of late colonial period would ultimately raise fundamental questions about what constituted Korean literature and literary authorship within the rapidly expanding transnational media market of the Japanese Empire.
15 Οκτ 2020 · The three East-Asian scripts—Chinese (characters and Pinyin), Japanese (multi-scripts), and Korean (alphabetic Hangul)—are discussed. Under each script, a brief historical account of the...
Key themes in his early literature include the ideologies of Imperial Fascism (servitude to the Japanese Emperor), postwar democracy, and Korean nationalism and their influence on the identity formation and self-determination of second-generation zainichi Koreans in Japan.
Modern Korean underwent further changes – probably expedited by the social and political disorder in the wake of the seven-year Japanese invasion that started in 1592, the popularization of vernacular literature, contact with foreign languages, and the importation of Western civilization.
Korea in the 1930s was a bilingual society in which intellectuals were expected to be conversant in Japanese, the language in which many first encountered modern forms of literature. This situation enabled self-translation to be an option for writers looking to expand their readership beyond the peninsula.
First, I examine the rise of Japanese-language literature by Korean colonial subjects in the late 1930s and early 1940s, reassessing the sociopolitical factors involved in the production and consumption of these texts.
