Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea

by Dafna Zur

This book is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s, a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a child-reader. This child audience was perceived as unique because of a new concept: the child-heart, the perception that the child's body and mind were transparent and knowable, and that they rested on the threshold of culture. This privileged location enabled writers and illustrators,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503601684
• ISBN13: 9781503601680
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"