<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:16px">To Koreanstudies listserv. If you could make this announcement we would greatly appreciate it. Thank you! </span><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Book Announcement – Azalea:
Journal of Korean Literature and Culture, Volume 15 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I am pleased to
announce that Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture, Volume 15, is
now available in print (currently in Seoul only) and in eBook (PDF) format. <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(<b>The eBook is now live
on Project MUSE</b>:</span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">
<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/429">https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/429</a></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> )</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Pa3" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Minion Pro",serif"><span class="gmail-A4" style="color:rgb(34,30,31)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ISSN: 1939-6120</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,30,31)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span class="gmail-A4" style="font-family:"Minion Pro",serif;color:rgb(34,30,31)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ISBN:
978-0-9993138-3-1</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:11.25pt 0cm;word-break:keep-all;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Azalea:
Journal of Korean Literature & Culture Volume 15 (2022)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;word-break:keep-all;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><img width="199" height="288"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(30,30,30)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;word-break:keep-all;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(30,30,30)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(30,30,30)">Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and
Culture: Volume Fifteen</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(30,30,30)"><br>
Edited by Young-Jun Lee, Professor, Kyung Hee University, South Korea<br>
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</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(10,10,10);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(10,10,10);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> promotes Korean
literature among English-language readers. Each issue may include works of
contemporary Korean writers and poets, as well as essays and book reviews by
Korean studies professors in the United States. <i>Azalea</i> introduces
to the world new writers as well as promising translators, providing the
academic community of Korean studies with well-translated texts for college
courses. Writers from around the world also share their experience of Korean
literature or culture with wider audiences.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(30,30,30)"><br>
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<u><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Editor's Note</span></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(30,30,30);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> </span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A century’s worth of change looks quite remarkable in Korean literature.
Today’s young Koreans cannot read the same newspapers read by their
grandparents’ generation. In less than a hundred years, the national written
language has shifted from Chinese characters to Korean </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">hangul</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, then briefly to Japanese as enforced under
colonial rule, and then to the modern Korean language that we know today.
During this process, remarkable sociocultural transformations dominated daily
life. Over the first half of the 20</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">th </span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">century, Koreans endured enormous
political shifts most notably marked by colonization, the Korean War, and the
ensuing divide of the country into separate political nations. Along the way,
Korean literature registered these upheavals and fluctuations. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Notably, the literature of totalizing </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">grand narrative</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, which concerned itself with the
trajectory of nation-building, persisted in Korea until the 1980s. Ever since
the end of the military dictatorship and the establishment of a civil
government in the 1990s, however, that literature began to shift its focus to
the lives of women. Now, those long ignored and marginalized—including queer
women, as well as other queer people such as those who are non-binary—have also
begun to emerge more strongly as published authors, even as they have been
increasingly centered as subjects of literary narratives. The ongoing impact of
this inclusive, expansionary shift can be seen directly in </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">AZALEA’s </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">decision to focus on LGBTQ+ literature
for its fifteenth issue.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The vanguard of this new wave of queer representation in Korea includes
writers such as Park Sang Young, Kim Mella, Kim Hyun, Han Junghyun, Hwang Jiun,
and Im Guk Yeong, all of whom contributed to this issue’s special feature.
Their writing reveals suppressed voices of queerness in representation and
subject matter, even as it questions traditional Korean heteronormativity and
gender roles. Through the works featured here, readers will encounter key
voices in contemporary Korean LGBTQ+ literature. I am especially pleased to
include the graphic novel, </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In-Between Seasons</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, by Lee Dong-eun and Jeong Yi-yong, a
delicately nuanced story of queer people still hidden in the shadows of
contemporary Korean society. Special thanks go to artist Kang Seung Lee for his
generosity in letting us use his pioneering art works on queer topics for </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">AZALEA</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">’s special artist feature, as well as
the cover of this issue.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I must add that the LGBTQ+ community has yet to acquire equal rights and
standing in Korean culture, and this had a direct effect on </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">AZALEA</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">’s efforts to procure works for this
special issue. Some writers had to decline for personal reasons. It is my hope that
this feature can be a small step towards contributing to much needed social
progress. Sincere thanks go to the two guest editors, Samuel Perry and Kim
Keonhyung, for their dedication.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I am also happy to publish the works of two writers, Kwon Yeo-sun and Kim
Choyeop, whose work showcase new trends in contemporary Korean literature. With
humor and sensitivity, Kwon Yeo-sun depicts the conflict and emotional intimacy
of private lives; Kim Choyeop is a rising star in Korea’s science fiction
genre. In addition to contemporary fiction, I am pleased to include poems by
Lee Seong-bok, who pioneered a new voice in Korean poetry in the late 1970s and
who has continued to pursue new themes such as Buddhism in his work. These
poems are featured in this issue. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The roots of modern Korean literature lie in its colonial past. Digging up
these roots and excavating hidden or forgotten authors has continued to be a
key labor of scholars. To this end, the current issue of </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">AZALEA </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">includes poems by Kim Myŏng-sun and a
story by Kim Saryang, whose work is reexamined by ambitious young scholars such
as our contributors, Eunice Lee and Oh Yoon Jeong. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As the pandemic that began in 2019 evolves into an endemic, we at </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">AZALEA </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">continue our best efforts to introduce
and situate Korean literature in the world, shining a light on the shadows and raising
the voices of the neglected and suppressed.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">May 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="word-break:keep-all;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Young-Jun Lee</span></p>
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Korea Institute, Harvard University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-indent:20pt;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><span lang="EN-US"><img width="588" height="839"></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-indent:20pt;margin:0cm;font-size:10pt;font-family:"\00b9d1\00c740 \00ace0\00b515""><br></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>이영준<br>경희대학교 서울캠퍼스 후마니타스 칼리지 교수<br>서울 동대문구 경희대로 26<br>경희대학교 청운관 208호<br>우편번호 02447<br>전화 02-961-9311 (연구소)<br>셀폰 010-6211-7012<br><a href="mailto:youngjun.lee@gmail.com" target="_blank">youngjun.lee@gmail.com</a><br><a href="mailto:youngjunlee@khu.ac.kr" target="_blank">youngjunlee@khu.ac.kr</a><br><br>Editor-in-Chief,<br>Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture<br>Korea Institute, Harvard University<br>1730 Cambridge St #228<br>Cambridge, MA 02138, USA</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>