[KS] Pak Wan-So (1931-2011): Doctoral Dissertations (Bibliography)

Frank Joseph Shulman fshulman at umd.edu
Tue Jan 25 02:07:57 EST 2011


The five bibliographical entries below are taken from "A Century of Doctoral Dissertations on Korea, 1903-2004: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies in Western Languages", a reference work that is expected to be published before the end of this year.  They may be of some immedidate value to the scholars, students and librarians who are looking for materials in English on Pak Wan-So.  "DAI" is the acronym for "Dissertation Abstracts International".  "UMI" refers to the UMI (formerly University Microfilms International) order number for copies of the dissertations that are available for purchase from UMI in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and that appear in the ProQuest Digital Dissertations database.  The descriptive annotations are based on my brief personal examination of the thesis typescripts.  NOTE: Korean names and words are transliterated according to both the McCune Reischauer Romanization system and the ROK Government Romanization system.  Also included for certain entries is the Romanization used by the dissertation author. 

Frank Joseph Shulman

January 25, 2011

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CHOI, Kyeong-Hee  (1959- ).
When the Colonized Mother Speaks: Post-Colonial and Maternal Narratives of Toni Morrison, Pak Wansô, and Buchi Emecheta.  Indiana University [United States], 1996 (Ph.D. in English).  Chairperson-Major Adviser: Susan D. Gubar.  vi, 312, 1p.  DAI 57, no.12 (June 1997): 5148-A; UMI 9716426.
Choi analyzed three literary works "dealing with the maternal experience of enslaved and colonized women"—Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison, "Ômma ûi malttuk" ("Eomma ui malttuk"/"Onma-ui malttuk") ["Mother's Stake"] (1980) by Pak Wan-sô (Bak Wan-seo/Park Wan Suh), and The Joys of Motherhood (1979) by the Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta—in this "cross-cultural feminist study of writings about motherhood and colonialism".  See especially chapter 4 (pages 167-228) in which she focused on Pak's autobiographical account of her and her mother within the setting of Korea under Japanese colonial rule.  Choi received both a B.A. (1983) and an M.A. (1985) in English from Seoul National University in addition to her Ph.D. in English from Indiana University.
Table of Contents: 1. Preface: A "Post-Coloniality" That Has Not Passed Colonialism.  2. Introduction: "New Motherhood" and the Colonized Family Romance.  3. Father's Eyes and Mother's Feet: Tracing the Father in Toni Morrison's Beloved.  4. The Making of the "New Woman" in Pak Wanso's "Mother's Stake 1".  5. African Motherhood under Western Eyes: Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood.  Bibliography: pp.298-312.


JEON, Miseli  (1952- ).
Violent Emotions: Modern Japanese and Korean Women's Writing, 1920-1980.  University of British Columbia [Canada], 2004 (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature).  Chairperson-Major Adviser: Eva-Marie Kroller and Bruce Fulton.  ix, 344p.  DAI 65, no.8 (Feb. 2005): 2978-A.  Abstract also published in Japanese Language and Literature 39, no.2 (Oct. 2005): 471-73.  UMI NQ93136.  A microfiche copy may also be borrowed on interlibrary loan from Library and Archives Canada (formerly known as the National Library of Canada) in Ottawa, using the ISBN number 978-0-612-93136-7 or 0-612-93136-6.
Jeon, a graduate of Yonsei University (B.A., 1976), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (M.A., 1986) and the University of British Columbia (M.L.S., 1991 and M.A. in Asian Studies, 1996), examined "the way that modern Korean and Japanese women writers adopted and adapted the imported concept of individualism" and "the role that the traditional sensibilities of urami (in Japan) and han (in Korea) play in modern women's writing".  She highlighted the work of six writers, three of them Korean: Kang Kyông-ae (1906-1944), O Chông-hûi (1947- ), and Pak Wan-sô (1931-2011) (Gang Gyeong-ae, O Jeong-hui/Oh Jung Hee, and Bak Wan-seo/Park Wan Suh).  Basing her study "on the hypothesis that the Western ideal of individualism provided an outlet for Korean and Japanese women who had been previously silenced and marginalized by the rigid precepts of the traditional Neo-Confucian patriarchy, Jeon focused on how the concept of individualism affected these women writers" and examined the "dissimilar ways in which they dealt with and expressed their emotions of resentment and anger".
Table of Contents: Introduction.  1. History and Traditional Sensibilities.  2. Hirabayashi Taiko and Kang Kyông-ae.  3. Kôno Taeko and O Chông-hûi.  4. Ôba Minako and Pak Wan-sô.  Conclusion.  Bibliography: pp.326-44.


KOH, Helen Hyung-In  (1963- ).
Imagining Childhood: Narratives of Formation in Korean Short Fiction of the 1970s.  University of Chicago [United States], 2001 (Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations).  Chairperson-Major Adviser: Norma M. Field.  v, 243p.  DAI 62, no.10 (Apr. 2002): 3396-A; UMI 3029511.
Koh examined "a genre of prose fiction known as sôngjang sosôl (narrative of formation) (seongjang soseol) with a focus on childhood narratives, a subgenre in which the individual's formation is delimited by the dominance of familial responsibilities".  She chose childhood narratives "that acutely portrayed changing mores and social values that occurred within the family due to war and industrial development".  Pointing out that the "major problems complicating individual formation which these stories addressed were the absence of fathers and the double burden of labor that this placed on mothers", Koh paid particular attention to the writings of Kim Wôn-il (1942- ), O Chông-hûi (1947- ) and Yi Mun-gu (1941-2003) (Gim Won-il, O Jeong-hui and Yi Mun-gu/Lee Mun-gu) while also discussing selected stories by such other postwar writers as Pak Wan-sô (1931-2011) and Yun Hûng-gil (1942- ) (Bak Wan-seo/Park Wan Suh and Yun Heung-gil).  Some of their stories deal with the Korean War (1950-1953).
Table of Contents: Introduction.  1. The Family Divided: Home and Dislocation in Kim Wôn-il's "Soul of Darkness" and "The Kite".  2. Fathers and Sons: The Problem of Ethical Transmission in "Summer of Betrayal" and "The House".  3. Disavowing Motherhood in O Chông-hûi's Narratives of Formation.  4. Yi Mun-gu's Nostalgic Resistance in Essays on Kwanch'on.  Afterword.  Bibliography: pp.228-43.


WHANG, Yunhee.
The Use of Social Deictic Terms in Korean Fiction: Towards an Understanding of Literary Discourse.  Boston University [United States], 2001 (Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics).  Chairperson-Major Adviser: Mary Catherine O'Connor.  xv, 243, 1p.  DAI 62, no.4 (Oct. 2001): 1396-97-A; UMI 3010457.
Korean contains an array of social deictic markers "including verbal morphology that signals speech levels, honorific terms of address, and choices from socially differentiated referring expressions" whose use is governed by "a strict set of conventions".  "With the expectation that these characteristics could elucidate the relations among the narrator, the characters and the (implied) readers", Whang (B.A., Ewha Woman's University, 1985 and M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Boston University, 1987) studied "the writer's (versus the speaker's) choice of address terms (terms used to refer directly to an addressee) and referring expressions (terms used to refer to a third person individual) in modern fiction".  For this purpose, she focused on three short stories and one novel: "Ômma ûi malttuk" by Pak Wan-sô (1931-2011), "Hoesaek nun saram" by Ch'oe Yun (1953- ), "Naeil-ûl yô'nûn chip" by Pang Hyôn-sôk (1961- ), and Kyôngmajang kanûn kil by Ha Il-chi (1955- ) ("Onma ui malttuk" by Bak Wan-seo/Park Wan Suh, "Hoesaek nun saram" by Choe Yun, "Naeil-eul yeoneun jip" by Bang Hyeon-seok, and Gyeongmajang ganeun gil by Ha Il-ji).  Her analysis "demonstrated how Korean authors made strategic use of these linguistic elements in ways that could differ from their usage in ordinary discourse in order to construct their psychological and ideological positioning".
Table of Contents: 1. Introduction.  2. Literature Review.  3. The Use of Social Deixis in Ordinary and Literary Discourse.  4. The Use of Social Deictic Terms and the Construction of Psychological Point of View.  5. The Use of Social Deictic Terms and the Construction of Ideological Point of View.  6. Conclusion.  9 figures.  32 tables.  Bibliography: pp.234-43.


WOO, Eunjoo  (1967- ).
Cultural Conditioning and Mother/Daughter Conflicts in the Development of Identity and Voice: The Autobiographical Fiction of Dorothy Allison, Wan-So Pak, and Maxine Hong Kingston.  University of Rhode Island [United States], 2001 (Ph.D. in English).  Chairperson-Major Adviser: Lois A. Cuddy.  v, 146p.  DAI 63, no.1 (July 2002): 179-A; UMI 3039088.
"By analyzing fictionalized autobiographies, Woo delineated how the mother-daughter relationship functions to promote the protagonist's silence and voice, how the mother influences her daughter's sense of agency, why and how each protagonist struggles against, with or for her mother, and how American mother-daughter relations differ from (or are similar to) those of Asian Americans and Asians".  In order to discuss these issues, she chose to examine the works of "a white American from the poor working class" (Dorothy Allison), "an impoverished Korean during the Korean War" (Pak Wan-sô/Bak Wan-seo/Park Wan Suh), and a Chinese American (Maxine Hong Kingston) "because they addressed the particular concerns of the interrelation between their own mother-daughter relationships and the establishment of their own identity and their subjectivity".  See especially chapter 2 (pages 42-89): "'Mother, Living Things Change': A Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Korean Young Woman in Wan-So Pak's The Naked Tree and Mother's Stake 1" (the novel Namok and the short story "Ômma ûi malttuk"/"Eomma ui malttuk").
Table of Contents: Introduction.  1. Breaking the Silence of Abuse and Poverty: Mother/Daughter Conflict and Abandonment in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of California.  2. "Mother, Living Things Change": A Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Korean Young Woman in Wan-So Pak's The Naked Tree and Mother's Stake 1.  3. "The Beginning Is Hers, The Ending, Mine": Chinese American Mother/Daughter Conflict and Reconciliation in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior.  Conclusion.  Appendix: pp.131-34.  Bibliography: pp.135-46.




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