Kim Jong-wook: The East Asian Horizon of Korean Literature

A book that examines the modern course of Korean novels. The modern Korean literature, which began in earnest during the empire period, was culturally difficult to avoid subordination of Japan along with imperial colonization. But as soon as you turn your eyes to the continent, you will encounter a landscape of surprise. It was the everyday world of writers, the life-long world of artists, the linguistic context of Korean tradition with Western modernism, and the historical source of South Korean thought's political imagination of national sovereignty. So to understand Korean modern literature correctly, we need to look at East Asia, not just Japan, but China, one step further. It's also the way to restore the geographical imagination that has been split up into a ceasefire and a truce since liberation.

Korean title: 한국문학의 동아시아적 지평

Korean author: 김종욱

Korean publisher: 역락

ISBN-13: 9791167424143