Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1503601684 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book gives welcome new insights into colonial modernity and astutely illuminates some of the most fundamental concerns of the colonial period." (Karen Thornber Harvard University)"Figuring Korean Futures offers a powerful and important history of children's literature in Korea from the early 1900s through the late 1940s. It is the first profound history of Korea's children's literature in English and covers all the political and social complexities involving the nation's aspirations, the modern focus on the child as a symbol of hope, and the transformative power of imagination." (Jack Zipes University of Minnesota) . "Figuring Korean Futures is a remarkable achievement, a rigorous study based on extensive archival research of the virtual explosion of children's literature in early twentieth-century Korea and its investment in the nation's future. Drawing on a wealth of textual and visual sources, Dafna Zur's groundbreaking book demonst
Figuring Korean Futures reveals the complex ways in which the figure of the child became a driving force of nostalgia that stood in for future aspirations for the individual, family, class, and nation.. Starting in the 1920s, a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a child-reader. She demonstrates the ways in which Korean children's literature builds on a trajectory that begins with the child as an organic part of nature, and ends, in the post-colonial era, with the child as the primary agent of control of nature. This book is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Reading children's periodicals against the political, educational, and psychological discourses of their time, Dafna Zur argues that the figure of the child was particularly favorable to the project of modernity and nation-building, as well as to t
Dafna Zur is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University.