...Christopher P. Hanscom This article addresses the conjunction of disease, desire, and language in modernist Korean fiction of the late colonial period, particularly in Pak T'aewŏn's representative novella One Day in the Life of the Author, Mr. Kubo (1934). I bring to bear two central concepts...

...Theodore Hughes Beginning with The Square ( Kwangjang , 1960) and the linked novel Voice of the Governor-General ( Ch'ongdok ŭi sori , 1967, 1968, 1976) and moving through two early 1970s works, A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist ( Sosŏlga Kubossi ŭi iril , 1970–72) and The Tempest ( T'aep'ung...

... Hanscom’s essay, “Modernism, Hysteria, and the Colonial Double Bind: Pak T’aewo˘n’s One Day in the Life of the Author, Mr. Kubo,” tarries with colonial discourse longer. It focuses on a key modernist novel because, Hanscom argues, “the colonial...

..., and the images resemble shad- ows in their grayscale tones. Beginning with the founder, Mizutani Hbun, members such as kubo Masaaki, Niwa Shji, and It Keisuke, and their collaborators produced numerous shin’ei prints.27 We can...

... 4 banned authors and banned literary texts, as in A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist. But the postcolonial reiteration of colonial Japanese-­style organi- cism is Ch’oe’s and Hughes’s special target. Here the charge is clear...

... a sensation in the Japanese literary world. Drama critic Kubo Sakae published an article stating, “There is little doubt that The Total Line is Murayama’s finest work, and one of the rare outstanding works in Japanese proletarian literature.”11...

... 46 Duane Kubo and Russell Kubota, “Alex Hing at UCLA,” Gidra, June-July 1970, 2. 47 “Over 300 at Meeting on Situation at State College,” Nichi Bei Times, 8 December 1968; H. M. Imazeki, “Local Open Forum Views Dr. Hayakawa as ‘Puppet Hokubei Mainichi,9...