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Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7540-1
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
Translating Korean Literature
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Published:May 2015
This chapter examines colonial-era debates over the shifting location of Korean literature, which emerged in response to contradictory demands on colonial culture within the Japanese empire. The spectre of the absent nation is palpable in these and other cultural debates at this time, and rather than revert to a facile dismissal of the concept of the nation as an imagined community, this chapter interrogates inherited and constructed categories of the nation and its narration, and the tenacity of the desire for such bounded categories, as precisely the paradox of the colonial modern condition. The chapter further frames these forgotten but...
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