Bücher der Reihe Critical Studies in Korean Literature and Culture in Translation

This study examines the roots of modern Korean fiction and its origin in the Japanese colonial period. These essays highlight the intimate connection between modernity and colonialism and provide a wide-ranging investigation into how the language and literature of Korean society was constructed.

This book traces the emergence of modern Korean literature and its trajectory towards the turn of the twentieth century. In examining the entanglements of literary style, form, and contemporaneous institutions, Young Min Kim illuminates an oft-overlooked period in modern Korean literary history.