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