Search Results for North Korean literature

...Heonik Kwon Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy . By Tatiana Gabroussenko . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2010 . 248 pp. $49.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011...

...I Jonathan Kief Abstract This article offers a revisionist perspective on the relationship between 1960s North and South Korean literature by showing how writers in the North engaged with and creatively rewrote works from the South. Contextualizing such practices within a longer history of cross...

..., this article locates the science fiction narrative within North Korean discourses on children's literature preoccupied with the role of fiction as both a reflection of the real and a projection of the imminent, utopian future. Through a close reading of science fiction narratives from this period, this article...

... language model North Korea topic modeling “It is a law of nature that quantitative change brings about qualitative change,” North Korean writer Pan Sangsŏ ( 2013 , 32) once noted, paraphrasing a precept of dialectical materialism. North Korean literature's quantitative turn is older than the country...

... effective literary analysis to captivate global readers' interest in North Korean literature for its artistic value, such as South Korean literary critics have produced. 12 Reading North Korea consists of three potentially attractive themes: “Love,” “War,” and “Self.” The first theme explains how...

... and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK . Ithaca, NY : Cornell East Asia Series . Myers Brian R . 2010 . The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves – And Why it Matters . New York : Melville House . Portal Jane . 2000 . Korea: Art...

...I Jonathan Kief Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 April Revolution of 1960 inter-Korean dialogue North Korean literature revolutionary motherhood https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911821001509 , published by Cambridge University Press, 11 February 2022...

... for those of his Japanese contemporaries who had “sacrificed themselves in the South Seas” (Kim K. 2015 ). Sŏnu was born in 1922 in Chŏngju, North P'yŏngan Province, a historically persecuted region known for its pivotal role in the formation of Korean Christianity and nationalism. The northwestern...

... of Hyun Woo and the policemen is similar to the way socialist revolutionaries and Japanese, American, and South Korean villains are depicted in some North Korean literature. The revolutionaries of the Kwangju Uprising in both Hwang's novel and North Korean fiction are glamorized and homogenized...

... is surprising is the completely opposite manner in which the more recent English-language scholarship on the construction of a North Korean literary institution tends to treat Korean leftist literature of the colonial era as “failure.” Represented most notably by Brian Myers's Han Sŏrya and North Korean...

... a few have been mentioned in subsequent surveys of Soviet publications on the Far East, there has been no recent attempt to describe and assess in general terms the total Soviet output on the subject of Korea since the North Korean Communist invasion brought war and world attention to the peninsula...

... . Lucas Scott . 1996 . “ Campaigns of Truth: The Psychological Strategy Board and American Ideology, 1951–53 .” International History Review 27 : 279 – 302 . Myers Brian . 1994 . Han So˘rya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK . Ithaca : Cornell...

... for teachers at nearly all grade levels above elementary school to teach about North and South Korea. They present voices and images of North Koreans both in North Korea and in South Korea that often remain absent from courses on East Asia. The films were not made as part of a larger research program...

... peak. In the wake of North Korea's sinking and seizure of two South Korean fishing boats on the high seas in February, 1974, South Korea publicly resumed the use of the pejorative term, putyoe (North Korean puppets). As early as August, 1973, North Korea had described the leadership of the South Korean...

... to characterize North Korea as evil. Hoass tells us that there is a boom in all things North Korean in South Korea today: images, literature, distinctive North Korean vocabulary, and food. South Koreans have always hungered for information about North Korea, but in these politically more free times people can...

... theoretical insights from the literature on international relations to illuminate core aspects of the North Korean problem and various foreign policies that states have attempted. In exploring the evolution of U.S. policy toward North Korea over the past half century, Roehrig examines two general...

...Frank Hoffmann BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 241 North Koreans in Japan: Language, Ideology, and Identity. By S O N I A R.YANG. Boulder, Colo, and Oxford: Westview Press, 1997. xix, 248 pp. $69-00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper). As soon as I arrived in England, I was reduced to speechlessness, since my English...

... excised from what became Han'guk munhak (South Korean literature), so too was the north rendered invisible and alien (a process that was equally visible north of the 38th parallel). The body of the book consists of five chronologically sequential but otherwise self-contained chapters that can easily...

... that North Korea "combined communism with Confucianism" [p. 4] we just need to be more specific about what we mean by the latter term), but the book stands head and shoulders above most of the political science literature on the DPRK, not least because the authors use Korean sources extensively and have...

... of the book, the author makes it explicit that he is mainly interested in understanding how the North Korean system actually works. Instead of simply portraying the system as comprising an anachronistic, personal dynasty whose days are numbered and criticizing its policies as mercurial and mysterious...