Table of Contents
Part 1: The Power of Literature / The Literature of Power 1. Art as Freedom and Power: Kim Tongin and the Political Legacy of "Pure Literature" in Modern Korea 2. Proletarian Reality and Leftist Literature of 1920s and 1930s Colonial Korea 3. The Colonial Frontier: Primitive Accumulation, Migration, and Settler Colonialism in Kando Literature 4. Decolonizing the Future: Postcolonial Themes in South Korean Science Fiction 5. The Mad Father in the Attic: Torture and the Ethics of Accountability in Post-Authoritarian Korean Fiction Part 2: Crossing Borders, Redrawing Boundaries 6. In the Shadow of Nation and Empire: Northwestern Writers in Colonial Seoul 7. Border Crossings between Decolonization and the Cold War: Rethinking Postliberation Literature, 1945–1950 8. Fracturing Literary Boundaries: Connecting with the Korean Peninsula in Postwar Japan 9. Crossing the Great Divide: Mid-Century Modernism on the Korean Peninsula 10. Division Literature and Visions for De-Bordering: Ch’oe Inhun, Pak Wansŏ, and Individuals without Belonging 11. South Korean Activist Readers of North Korean Literature Part 3: Rationality in Literature and its Limits: Scientists, Detectives, and Doctors 12. Literary Negotiations with Western Science in Post-Confucian Korea 13. The Development of Detective Fiction in Colonial Korea 14. Curing, But Not Healing, in Pak Wansŏ’s "During Three Days of that Autumn" Part 4: Transnational Archives: Language, Ethnicity, and Translation 15. The Figure of the Translator: Kim Saryang Between Korean and Japanese Literatures 16. Zainichi Writers and the Postcoloniality of Modern Korean Literature 17. Interracial Romance, Unlawful Marriage: Transpacific Encounters in Early Korean-American Literature 18. Autobiography of Others: Dictée’s Counter-Hegemonic Feminism Part 5: Korean Literature in the Changing Mediascape: Radio, Television, and Print Culture 19. The Sonic Unconscious and the Wartime Radio Novel in Colonial Korea 20. Make Noise, Not War: Television in Yusin-Era Literature 21. Radicalizing Against Polarities: Poetry and Print Culture in the 1980's Literary Topography
