This book examines the role of translationthe rendering of texts and ideas from one language to another, as both act and tropein shaping attitudes toward nationalism and colonialism in Kor
As millions of women and girls left country towns to generate Korea’s manufacturing boom, the factory girl emerged as an archetypal figure in twentieth-century popular culture. This book explores the
Paik Nak-chung is one of Korea’s most incisive contemporary public intellectuals. By training a literary scholar, he is perhaps best known as an eloquent cultural and political critic. This volume rep
