Everyday Life as Critique in Late Colonial Korea
Kim Namch'ŏn's Literary Experiments, 1934-43
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3629631 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sunyoung Park (0000-0002-6292-5514, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 861-893 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911809990088 |
| OpenAlex | W2063867614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 24 |
Perhaps the most renowned leftist writer of late colonial Korea, Kim Namch'ŏn left a complex body of work that has so far defied an encompassing interpretation. On the one hand, in his theoretical writings, Kim consistently advocated realism as his aesthetic principle. On the other hand, within his fictional writings, Kim also displayed an antithetical interest in the fragmentary scenes of modern life, which he often depicted through experimental techniques of a modernist aesthetic sensibility. In this essay, an attempt is made to provide a unified account of Kim's works. Special attention is given to Kim's early theorization of the everyday as a proper literary space for a materialist critique of society. This focus on everyday life, it is argued, enabled Kim to critique both the teleological outlook of dogmatic socialism and the utopian vision of pan-Asianism, but it did not shelter him from a fascination with the daily spectacles of urban modernity
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Communism · Epistemology · Everyday life · Interpretation (philosophy) · Left-wing politics · Literature · Materialism · Modernity · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Realism · Sensibility · Socialism · Teleology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
History and Class Consciousness
Dreams of Difference
Chinese modern
Chapter 2 / The Kominka Movement in Taiwan and Korea
The Gender of Modernity
Everyday Life and Cultural Theory
The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945
The Thought War
The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945
Unhappy Soldier
Narrating the Self
Becoming Japanese
The Colonial Origin of Korean Realism and Its Contemporary Manifestation
Narrating the Self
Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey
The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945
Sourcebook for Modern Japanese Philosophy
Thought Control in Prewar Japan
Sourcebook for Modern Japanese Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |