<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">Dear
Colleagues, </span>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">I would like to bring to the attention of the Korean Studies community my new book
about proletarian culture, which might otherwise fall under the radar of many
Koreanists.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">Recasting Red Culture in
Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea and the Historical Avant-garde </span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">(<a href="http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9136-9780824838935.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9136-9780824838935.aspx</a>)
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">shows how proletarian writers and activists in the 1920s
and 1930s reconfigured culture into a vital social practice, opening up new
critical spaces in the intersections of class, childhood, popular culture, gender
and ethnicity. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">With over a dozen translated fairy tales, poems, and short
stories woven into the narrative, the book examines the margins of the
proletarian cultural movement in order to redefine its center. Along the way i</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">t engages significantly with
questions about the representation of Korean activists and the Korean colony
within the context of revolutionary literature. It happens to be heavily discounted
now on various on-line sites.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">Thanks very
much.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">Samuel
Perry</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">Assistant
Professor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">East Asian Studies</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">Brown
University</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">Providence, RI 02912</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><a href="mailto:samuel_perry@brown.edu" target="_blank">samuel_perry@brown.edu</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><a href="http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Samuel_Perry" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Samuel_Perry</span></a></span></p>






<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://arts.gov/writers-corner/bio/samuel-perry" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva">http://arts.gov/writers-corner/bio/samuel-perry</span></a></p></div></div>