<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Chaim Potok's novel set in Korea and featuring Korean protagonists is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">I am the Clay</span>, which was translated into Korean as 한줌의 흙 (hanjum-ui heuk--a handful of earth). I found it stark and haunting. Potok was an army chaplain in Korea around the time of the war. A character who appears at the end of the book is based loosely on him.<br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "koreanstudies-request@koreaweb.ws" <koreanstudies-request@koreaweb.ws><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
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ymailto="mailto:koreanstudies-owner@koreaweb.ws" href="mailto:koreanstudies-owner@koreaweb.ws">koreanstudies-owner@koreaweb.ws</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Koreanstudies digest..."<br><br><br><<------------ KoreanStudies mailing list DIGEST ------------>><br> <br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Korea and Koreans as featured in literary works by<br> non-Korean(ist) writers (<a ymailto="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com" href="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com">Afostercarter@aol.com</a>)<br> 2. Re: Korea and Koreans as featured in literary works by<br> non-Korean(ist) writers (Edward J. Baker)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:13:51 EDT<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com"
href="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com">Afostercarter@aol.com</a><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws" href="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</a>, <a ymailto="mailto:baks@jiscmail.ac.uk" href="mailto:baks@jiscmail.ac.uk">baks@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>, <a ymailto="mailto:members@asck.org" href="mailto:members@asck.org">members@asck.org</a><br>Cc: <a ymailto="mailto:coyner@gol.com" href="mailto:coyner@gol.com">coyner@gol.com</a>, <a ymailto="mailto:Philip@londonkoreanlinks.net" href="mailto:Philip@londonkoreanlinks.net">Philip@londonkoreanlinks.net</a><br>Subject: [KS] Korea and Koreans as featured in literary works by<br> non-Korean(ist) writers<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:5b883.3b23f337.3bcafd2f@aol.com" href="mailto:5b883.3b23f337.3bcafd2f@aol.com">5b883.3b23f337.3bcafd2f@aol.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Dear friends and colleagues,<br> <br>A literary
question, for the weekend:<br> <br>How often do Korean characters, or Korea itself,<br>feature in works not by Koreans or Korea specialists?<br> <br>Not a lot, I think. Three recent cases spring to mind<br>- there may be many others, which I've overlooked -<br>one of which has only just come to my attention:<br> <br>1. Margaret Drabble's ambitious The Red Queen, on which I have<br>posted previously: <br>_<a href="http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.htm" target="_blank">http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.htm</a><br>l_ <br>(<a href="http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.html" target="_blank">http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.html</a>) <br> <br>2. Eunice Park, in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad Love Story.<br> <br>3. And now, someone is venturing into Inspector O
territory.<br>Adam Johnson's next novel, The Orphan Master's Son, <br>is set in North Korea. An extract is available here<br> <br>(part of which I fear qualifies as an entry for the<br>Literary Review's annual Bad Sex award):<br><br>_<a href="http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-%E2%80%9Cfor-the-love" target="_blank">http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-%E2%80%9Cfor-the-love</a><br>-of-juche%E2%80%9D-by-adam-johnson/_ <br>(<a href="http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-?for-the-love-of-juche?-by-adam-johnson/" target="_blank">http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-?for-the-love-of-juche?-by-adam-johnson/</a>) <br> <br>Subscribers to Granta can read a rather better passage<br>in that magazine's latest issue (not available online):<br>_<a href="http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later_"
target="_blank">http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later_</a> <br>(<a href="http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later" target="_blank">http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later</a>) <br> <br>No doubt we should wait for the complete work,<br>due out in January 2012. It already has a page at Amazon:<br>_<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693_" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693_</a> <br>(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693</a>) <br> <br>The author, who I gather teaches creative writing at Stanford<br>- does he mingle with the Koreanists and Korea programs there? -<br>- discusses his purposes here:<br>_<a href="http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/_"
target="_blank">http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/_</a> <br>(<a href="http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/" target="_blank">http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/</a>) <br> <br>Are there more such instances? I'm sure there must be.<br> <br>Kind regards<br>Aidan FC<br> <br> <br>Aidan Foster-Carter <br>Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds <br>University, UK <br>E: <a ymailto="mailto:_afostercarter@aol.com" href="mailto:_afostercarter@aol.com">_afostercarter@aol.com</a>_ (mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com" href="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com">afostercarter@aol.com</a>) <br><a ymailto="mailto:_afostercarter@yahoo.com" href="mailto:_afostercarter@yahoo.com">_afostercarter@yahoo.com</a>_ (mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com"
href="mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com">afostercarter@yahoo.com</a>) W: _www.aidanfc.net_ <br>(<a href="http://www.aidanfc.net/" target="_blank">http://www.aidanfc.net/</a>) <br>W in Korea: <br>_<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http://aidanfc.net/index.html_" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http://aidanfc.net/index.html_</a> <br>(<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http:/aidanfc.net/index.html" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http:/aidanfc.net/index.html</a>) <br>Recent articles, broadcasts and other activities on Korea (mostly): <br>15 October, 2011 Soft-soaping Samsung The lead letter in the Economist, <br>criticising their kid-glove coverage of the big beast recently <br>_<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21532241_"
target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/node/21532241_</a> (<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21532241" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/node/21532241</a>) <br>12 October, 2011 Oh no. Oh dear. An honest man bows out. Farewell to <br>Seoul?s former mayor, Oh Se-hoon. <br>_<a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html_" target="_blank">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html_</a> (<a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html" target="_blank">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html</a>) <br>3 October 2011 North Korea: The South changes course. My latest <br>monthly update on the DPRK for NewNations: <br>_<a href="http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1_" target="_blank">http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1_</a> (<a href="http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1"
target="_blank">http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1</a>) <br>27 September 2011 To catch a roach. It?s surprising who you <br>meet in luxury Swiss hotels ? and great to be back in the International <br>Herald Tribune, on a subject other than Korea just for once. <br>_<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html_" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html_</a> <br>(<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html</a>) <br> <br> <br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a href="http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20111015/834aa606/attachment-0001.html"
target="_blank">http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20111015/834aa606/attachment-0001.html</a>><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:18:56 -0400<br>From: "Edward J. Baker" <<a ymailto="mailto:ejbaker@fas.harvard.edu" href="mailto:ejbaker@fas.harvard.edu">ejbaker@fas.harvard.edu</a>><br>To: "Laurel Kendall" <<a ymailto="mailto:lkendall@amnh.org" href="mailto:lkendall@amnh.org">lkendall@amnh.org</a>><br>Cc: <a ymailto="mailto:coyner@gol.com" href="mailto:coyner@gol.com">coyner@gol.com</a>, <a ymailto="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws" href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</a>, <a ymailto="mailto:baks@jiscmail.ac.uk" href="mailto:baks@jiscmail.ac.uk">baks@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>,<br> <a ymailto="mailto:members@asck.org" href="mailto:members@asck.org">members@asck.org</a>, <a ymailto="mailto:philip@londonkoreanlinks.net"
href="mailto:philip@londonkoreanlinks.net">philip@londonkoreanlinks.net</a>, <a ymailto="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com" href="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com">Afostercarter@aol.com</a><br>Subject: Re: [KS] Korea and Koreans as featured in literary works by<br> non-Korean(ist) writers<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:9A01AC4E-BD09-4C78-875A-AF25CD4543F9@fas.harvard.edu" href="mailto:9A01AC4E-BD09-4C78-875A-AF25CD4543F9@fas.harvard.edu">9A01AC4E-BD09-4C78-875A-AF25CD4543F9@fas.harvard.edu</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br><br>Dear Friends,<br><br>Pearl Buck's novel set in Korea was The Living Reed, published in 1963 or 64 and again in 2004. It's available on Amazon.<br><br>Yours,<br><br>Ed<br><br><br>On Oct 15, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Laurel Kendall wrote:<br><br>> 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>>> Dear friends and colleagues,<br>>> <br>>> A literary question, for the weekend:<br>>>
<br>>> How often do Korean characters, or Korea itself,<br>>> feature in works not by Koreans or Korea specialists?<br>>> <br>>> Not a lot, I think. Three recent cases spring to mind<br>>> - there may be many others, which I've overlooked -<br>>> one of which has only just come to my attention:<br>>> <br>>> 1. Margaret Drabble's ambitious The Red Queen, on which I have<br>>> posted previously:<br>>> _<a href="http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.htm" target="_blank">http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.htm</a><br>>> l_<br>>> (<a href="http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.html" target="_blank">http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.html</a>)<br>>> <br>>> 2. Eunice Park, in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad
Love Story.<br>>> <br>>> 3. And now, someone is venturing into Inspector O territory.<br>>> Adam Johnson's next novel, The Orphan Master's Son,<br>>> is set in North Korea. An extract is available here<br>>> <br>>> (part of which I fear qualifies as an entry for the<br>>> Literary Review's annual Bad Sex award):<br>>> <br>>> _<a href="http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-%E2%80%9Cfor-the-love" target="_blank">http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-%E2%80%9Cfor-the-love</a><br>>> -of-juche%E2%80%9D-by-adam-johnson/_<br>>> (<a href="http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-?for-the-love-of-juche?-by-adam-johnson/" target="_blank">http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-?for-the-love-of-juche?-by-adam-johnson/</a>)<br>>> <br>>> Subscribers to Granta can read a rather better
passage<br>>> in that magazine's latest issue (not available online):<br>>> _<a href="http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later_" target="_blank">http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later_</a><br>>> (<a href="http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later" target="_blank">http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later</a>)<br>>> <br>>> No doubt we should wait for the complete work,<br>>> due out in January 2012. It already has a page at Amazon:<br>>> _<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693_" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693_</a><br>>> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693</a>)<br>>> <br>>> The author, who I gather teaches creative writing at
Stanford<br>>> - does he mingle with the Koreanists and Korea programs there? -<br>>> - discusses his purposes here:<br>>> _<a href="http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/_" target="_blank">http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/_</a><br>>> (<a href="http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/" target="_blank">http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/</a>)<br>>> <br>>> Are there more such instances? I'm sure there must be.<br>>> <br>>> Kind regards<br>>> Aidan FC<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> Aidan Foster-Carter<br>>> Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds<br>>> University, UK<br>>> E: <a ymailto="mailto:_afostercarter@aol.com" href="mailto:_afostercarter@aol.com">_afostercarter@aol.com</a>_ (mailto:<a
ymailto="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com" href="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com">afostercarter@aol.com</a>)<br>>> <a ymailto="mailto:_afostercarter@yahoo.com" href="mailto:_afostercarter@yahoo.com">_afostercarter@yahoo.com</a>_ (mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com" href="mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com">afostercarter@yahoo.com</a>) W:<br>>> _www.aidanfc.net_<br>>> (<a href="http://www.aidanfc.net/" target="_blank">http://www.aidanfc.net/</a>)<br>>> W in Korea:<br>>> _<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http://aidanfc.net/index.html_" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http://aidanfc.net/index.html_</a><br>>> (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http:/aidanfc.net/index.html" target="_blank">http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http:/aidanfc.net/index.html</a>)<br>>> Recent articles, broadcasts and other activities on Korea
(mostly):<br>>> 15 October, 2011 Soft-soaping Samsung The lead letter in the<br>>> Economist,<br>>> criticising their kid-glove coverage of the big beast recently<br>>> _<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21532241_" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/node/21532241_</a><br>>> (<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21532241" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/node/21532241</a>)<br>>> 12 October, 2011 Oh no. Oh dear. An honest man bows out. Farewell<br>>> to<br>>> Seoul?s former mayor, Oh Se-hoon.<br>>> _<a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html_" target="_blank">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html_</a><br>>> (<a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html" target="_blank">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html</a>)<br>>> 3 October 2011 North Korea:
The South changes course. My latest<br>>> monthly update on the DPRK for NewNations:<br>>> _<a href="http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1_" target="_blank">http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1_</a><br>>> (<a href="http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1" target="_blank">http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1</a>)<br>>> 27 September 2011 To catch a roach. It?s surprising who<br>>> you<br>>> meet in luxury Swiss hotels ? and great to be back in the International<br>>> Herald Tribune, on a subject other than Korea just for once.<br>>> _<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html_" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html_</a><br>>> (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html"
target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html</a>)<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> <br>> <br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a href="http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20111015/7fe28296/attachment.html" target="_blank">http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/attachments/20111015/7fe28296/attachment.html</a>><br><br>End of Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 100, Issue 13<br>**********************************************<br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>