From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea

by Yoon Sun Yang

The notion of the individual was initially translated into Korean near the end of the nineteenth century and took root during the early years of Japanese colonial influence. Yoon Sun Yang argues that the first literary iterations of the Korean individual were prototypically female figures appearing in the early colonial domestic novel--a genre developed by reform-minded male writers--as schoolgirls, housewives, female ghosts, femmes fatales , and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674976975
• ISBN13: 9780674976979
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"