Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myong-sun e-bog
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The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myong-sun offers an introduction to Korea's first modern woman writer to publish a collection of creative works, Kim Myong-sun (1896-ca. 1954). Despite attempts by male contemporaries to assassinate her character, Kim was an outspoken writer and an early feminist, confronting patriarchal Korean society in essays, plays, poems, and short stories. This volume...
E-bog
348,37 DKK
Forlag
Routledge
Udgivet
30 november 2022
Længde
210 sider
Genrer
2GK
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781000775181
The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myong-sun offers an introduction to Korea's first modern woman writer to publish a collection of creative works, Kim Myong-sun (1896-ca. 1954). Despite attempts by male contemporaries to assassinate her character, Kim was an outspoken writer and an early feminist, confronting patriarchal Korean society in essays, plays, poems, and short stories. This volume is the first to offer a detailed analysis in English of Kim's poetry. The poems examined in this volume can be considered early twentieth-century versions of #MeToo literature, mirroring the harrowing account of her sexual assault, and also subversive challenges to traditional institutions, dealing with themes such as romantic free love, same-sex love, single womanhood, and explicit female desire and passion. The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim MyA ng-sun restores a long-neglected woman writer to her rightful place in the history of Korean literature, shedding light on the complexity of women's lives in Korea and contributing to the growing interest in modern Korean women's literature in the West.