| Description |
1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Advances in Korean Studies |
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Routledge advances in Korean studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1 Evil, banality and apathy -- The weight of silence -- The urban purgatory and the interregnum -- The tormented phantom soul -- A duel in a cathedral confronting radical evil -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 The power of humility and compassion -- Resentment vs. ressentiment -- The unfinished grief -- Forgiving the unforgivable in Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine -- Substitution for the unrepentant: Lee Chang-dong's Poetry -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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3 Ghostly apparitions and the face -- The sorrow of the remnants and the politics of pity -- An inoperative community of healing: Lim Chul-woo's One-Hundred Year Inn -- Ghostly apparitions: Han Kang's The Boy Is Coming -- The face: Ch'oe Yun's "There a Petal Silently Falls" -- Deliverance from guilt: the girl's story -- The transformative power of the weak: the man's story -- Hospitality: the urban elite activists vs. the suffering man -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Bio-nationalism and solidarity of the wounded -- Cold buckwheat noodle soup and bio-nationalism |
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The nation trouble and maternity: widows and queen bees of Kang Kyong-ae and Yi Sang -- The national mother crushed between hyper-masculinity and anarchism -- A utopic vision: Hwang Sŏg-yŏng's The Old Garden -- An anarchist vision: Bong Joon-ho's Mother -- Solidarity of the wounded: Chu Sang-mi's The Children Sent to Poland -- The North Korean war orphans -- Solidarity of the wounded -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429017346 |
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0429017340 |
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