Title Korean National Identity under Japanese Colonial Rule : Yi Gwangsu and the March First Movement Of 1919 / Michael D. Shin

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Description 1 online resource (247 pages) Series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia ; 130 Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 130. Contents Cover Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The March First Movement; Shadows of the colonial past; A conjunctural history; The life of Yi Gwangsu; Research on the March First Movement and Yi Gwangsu; The plan of the book; Notes; Chapter 1: Pyeongan province; Commerce; Christianity; Education; The discourse of "society"; The politics of the northwest; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2: Print capitalism; Print in the Joseon Period; The beginnings of a modern print industry; The print industry in the occupation period The print industry and the formation of the bourgeoisieThe development of a modern readership; Politics and the print world; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3: Modern literature; Literary theory; Short stories; The novel Mujeong (Heartless); The allegory of the love triangle; Yeongchae and Han; Seonhyeong and modern love; The discovery of the nation; Notes; Chapter 4: The Cultural Policy; Overview of the cultural policy; Colonial ethnology; The apparatuses of culture; Religion; Cultural memory; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: Reconstruction and culturalism; Colonial politics in the early 1920s GaebyeokThe Donga ilbo; Reactions to the Cultural Policy; Intellectual background; Japanese Neo-Kantianism; Bertrand Russell and Edward Carpenter; Yi Gwangsu on reconstruction; The meanings of reconstruction; The nation; Culturalism; The cultivation of modern individuals; Class and the reconstruction of society; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: National literature and melodrama; The literary world; Literary theory; The novel Rebirth (Jaesaeng); Romance, revolution, and the modern girl; Part one; Part two; Notes; Conclusion: The June Tenth Movement; The March First Movement and the nation Yi Gwangsu in 1926Notes; Bibliography; Journals and newspapers; Websites; Books and articles; Index Summary "Nationalism in Korea emerged within a relatively short space of time, and over the course of the twentieth century, during which Korea suffered colonial rule, civil war and division, nationalism has taken many forms. This book examines the emergence of the nation as the hegemonic form of collective identity during the colonial period. The analysis focuses on Yi Gwangsu (1892-1951), a pioneering novelist, newspaper editor, and leader of the nationalist movement, who was directly involved in many aspects of its emergence, and also focuses on the March First Movement of 1919, widely seen as one of the major turning points of modern Korean history. Yi Gwangsu was one of the few intellectuals who not only wrote for almost the entirety of the colonial period but who also was centrally involved in many institutions related to the production of identity. By focusing on Yi Gwangsu the book provides a different kind of historical narrative linking the various fragments of the nation, puts forward a new understanding of the March First Movement and its role in the emergence of the nation, and demonstrates how central to the emergence of the nation were the rise of the print industry, modern readership, and a capitalist market for print. This book shows how the March First Movement catalyzed the confluence of these factors, enabling the nation to emerge as the dominant form of collective identity"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Yi, Kwang-su, 1892-1950 Yi, Kwang-su, 1892-1950 SUBJECT Korean resistance movements (1905-1945) fast Subject Korean resistance movements, 1905-1945. National characteristics, Korean, in literature. Korean literature -- 1919-1945 -- History and criticism Publishers and publishing -- Korea -- History -- 20th century Korean literature National characteristics, Korean, in literature Publishers and publishing Korea -- History -- Independence movement, 1919. Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945. Korea Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781134830640 1134830645 9781134830572 1134830572 9781134830718 1134830718 9781315544717 1315544717

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