<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear Friends,</div><div><br></div><div>Pearl Buck's novel set in Korea was <i>The Living Reed</i>, published in 1963 or 64 and again in 2004. It's available on Amazon.</div><div><br></div><div>Yours,</div><div><br></div><div>Ed</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 15, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Laurel Kendall wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Chaim Potak (sp?)'s THE BOOK OF LIGHTS is set mostly in Korea (the hero is<br>an army chaplain--although Korean characters are few). He includes one<br>Korean incident that became the basis for a more "Korean" novel which came<br>out 10 years or more ago. I forget the title, I haven't read it, (afraid<br>to).<br><br>David Lodge's SMALL WORLD includes a Korean character, the mistress of the<br>grand old man of letters -- not exactly an uplifting image nor one that is<br>any more than paper thin.<br><br>Peal Buck wrote a Korean-set novel way back when, not one of her best. <br>The title eludes me.<br><br>Thanks for raising this question, others will probably think of more, but<br>all, I suspect, in bits and pieces. It is at least heartening that<br>authors of Korean ancestry are producing much that is worthy of serious<br>attention.<br><br>Laurel<br><br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear friends and colleagues,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">A literary question, for the weekend:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">How often do Korean characters, or Korea itself,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">feature in works not by Koreans or Korea specialists?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Not a lot, I think. Three recent cases spring to mind<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- there may be many others, which I've overlooked -<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">one of which has only just come to my attention:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">1. Margaret Drabble's ambitious The Red Queen, on which I have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">posted previously:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.htm<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">l_<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.html">http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.html</a>)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">2. Eunice Park, in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad Love Story.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">3. And now, someone is venturing into Inspector O territory.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Adam Johnson's next novel, The Orphan Master's Son,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is set in North Korea. An extract is available here<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(part of which I fear qualifies as an entry for the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Literary Review's annual Bad Sex award):<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-%E2%80%9Cfor-the-love<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-of-juche%E2%80%9D-by-adam-johnson/_<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03">http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03</a>/excerpt-“for-the-love-of-juche”-by-adam-johnson/)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subscribers to Granta can read a rather better passage<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in that magazine's latest issue (not available online):<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later_<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later">http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later</a>)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">No doubt we should wait for the complete work,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">due out in January 2012. It already has a page at Amazon:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693_<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693">http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693</a>)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The author, who I gather teaches creative writing at Stanford<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- does he mingle with the Koreanists and Korea programs there? -<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- discusses his purposes here:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/_<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/">http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/</a>)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Are there more such instances? I'm sure there must be.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kind regards<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Aidan FC<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Aidan Foster-Carter<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">University, UK<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">E: _afostercarter@aol.com_ (<a href="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com">mailto:afostercarter@aol.com</a>)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_afostercarter@yahoo.com_ (<a href="mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com">mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com</a>) W:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_www.aidanfc.net_<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://www.aidanfc.net/">http://www.aidanfc.net/</a>)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">W in Korea:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http://aidanfc.net/index.html_<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http:/aidanfc.net/index.html">http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http:/aidanfc.net/index.html</a>)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Recent articles, broadcasts and other activities on Korea (mostly):<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">15 October, 2011 Soft-soaping Samsung The lead letter in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Economist,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">criticising their kid-glove coverage of the big beast recently<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_http://www.economist.com/node/21532241_<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21532241">http://www.economist.com/node/21532241</a>)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">12 October, 2011 Oh no. Oh dear. An honest man bows out. Farewell<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Seoul’s former mayor, Oh Se-hoon.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html_<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html</a>)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">3 October 2011 North Korea: The South changes course. My latest<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">monthly update on the DPRK for NewNations:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1_<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1">http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1</a>)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">27 September 2011 To catch a roach. It’s surprising who<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">you<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">meet in luxury Swiss hotels – and great to be back in the International<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Herald Tribune, on a subject other than Korea just for once.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html_<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html</a>)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>