书目

The Proletarian Wave:Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945

内容简介

SocialistdoctrineshadanimportantinfluenceonKoreanwritersandintellectualsoftheearlytwentiethcentury.Fromthe1910sthroughthe1940s,averitablewaveofanarchist,Marxist,nationalist,andfeministleftistgroupsswepttheculturalscenewithdifferingagendasaswellasshareddemandsforequalityandsocialjustice.InTheProletarianWave,SunyoungParkreconstructsthecomplexmosaicofcolonialleftistculturebyfocusingonliteratureasitsmostfertileandenduringexpression.ThebookcombinesageneraloverviewoftheliteraryleftwiththeintellectualportraitsoffourwriterswhoseworksexemplifythestylisticrangeandcolonialinflectionofsocialistcultureinarapidlymodernizingKorea.BridgingMarxisttheoryandpostcolonialstudies,ParkconfrontsWesternpreconceptionsaboutthird-worldsocialistcultureswhileinterrogatingmodernculturalhistoryfromapost–ColdWarglobalperspective.TheProletarianWaveprovidesthefirsthistoricalaccountinEnglishofthecomplexinterrelationsofliteratureandsocialistideologyincolonialKorea.Itdetailstheorigins,development,andinfluenceofamovementthathasshapedtwentieth-centuryKoreanpoliticsandaestheticsalikethroughananalysisthatsimultaneouslyengagessomeofthemostdebatedandpressingissuesofliteraryhistoriography,Marxistcriticism,andpostcolonialculturalstudies.

作者简介

SunyoungParkisAssociateProfessorofEastAsianLanguagesandCultureStudiesattheUniversityofSouthernCalifornia.

丛书

The Harvard East Asian Monographs

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