Language and Truth in North Korea

by Sonia Ryang

In this innovative and persuasive volume, Sonia Ryang offers new ways to think about North Korea and how truth emerges over decades from within a dominant discourse. It explores four discrete yet mutually related domains of discourse: North Korea's literary purge of the 1950s-1960s; its state-initiated linguistic reforms of the 1960s-1980s; stories from a people's chronicle, more than one hundred volumes in length, documenting interactions with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824886283
• ISBN13: 9780824886288
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"