[KS] book search for teaching

[McCann, David]

Also the short story "Cranes" by Hwang Sunwon.  There is a translation and note on the story in Azalea Journal Vol. 1, 2007.  The story creates a very interesting and compelling reading of the notion of "North" and "South" in the conflict.

D. McCann


On Dec 12, 2013, at 7:10 AM, Andrew P Killick <a.killick at sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:a.killick at sheffield.ac.uk>>
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Another novel of the Korean War is Lee Ho-chul's "Southerners, Northerners", translated by my wife and myself and published by EastBridge. It gives a different perspective in being based on the author's experience of being drafted into the North Korean army at the age of 19.

-Andrew Killick
University of Sheffield
e-mail: a.killick at sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:a.killick at sheffield.ac.uk>


On 12 December 2013 00:38, Michael Duffy <mgduffy45 at hotmail.com<mailto:mgduffy45 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
There's also another very good full-length novel by Ahn Junghyo, Silver Stallion, set against the Korean War, .

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Hi Mike:

There’s a lot you can use in this course. Have you looked at  Ha Jin’s War Trash? It’s a novel, not a short story, but is a powerful fictional account of what it was like to be a Chinese POW during the Korean War.   For the Vietnam War, another novel you might find useful is Hwang Suk-Young’s The Shadow of Arms.  You could also have them read Ahn Junghyo’s White Badge on Koreans in the Vietnam War.   And, for short stories, look at Bruce Fulton’s translations in The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea. There are also the short stories of Hwang Sun won,  Mountains (in Fulton’s anthology Land of Exile) and Cranes, in Modern Korean Fiction: an Anthology.

Cheers,

Don



On Dec 11, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Robinson, Michael E. <robime at indiana.edu<mailto:robime at indiana.edu>> wrote:

Dear Colleagues:

I’m teaching a course in the spring term on “The Cross Cultural Experiences of War” which deals with US wars in Asia….WW II, Korean War, and Vietnam.

I’m using fiction in part to get students to think about how these wars have affected our attitudes and relations with East Asia.   I am using Heinz Insu Fenkl’s  wonderful “Memories of My Ghost Bother” to cover Korean War aftermaths…..but I was wondering if there is some new translation collections from Korean of short stories centered around the War that I might use as well.

Happy Holidays,

Mike Robinson






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