[KS] Jazz in Korea--Josephine Baker

[Steven Capener]

Hi again,
 
Adam, most of Yi's essays are literary, but, like I said, that does not in itself make them fiction.
 
Steven

From: Adam Bohnet <adam.bohnet at utoronto.ca>
To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws 
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [KS] Jazz in Korea--Josephine Baker

Dear all:

I dropped by the library today (I had other business) and made some quick PDFs of three of the stories (the story of C harbour, the story of the Dong café, and one other, from December, September, and August, I believe) from Chogwang. Notably I scanned them in context; they are not on their own but with other works of literature (prose and poetry) as they were published.

They are not, I am ashamed to say, in a form which would please a scholar. I had trouble with the TOC, and eventually gave up, gathering together an unusable mass of photographs which I did not post to my homepage. I may try again on Monday. I also didn’t scan the covers! However,  having read the TOCs, I would like to say that the claim, made by Steve, that these stories are clearly factual, is not tenable. They are not included with the non-fiction, but in the explicitly literary parts of the magazine.

My area of interest is late Chosŏn, so I am not at all invested in Josephine Baker never coming to Korea.  But some better evidence, some corroboration, is needed. Above all, it is vital that historians read sources in context -  reading a source out of context is like climbing trees to catch fish.

The file is on  my homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/adambohnet/files-and-notes.

If you have trouble finding that link, then search me on Academia dot edu, find the link to my homepage, and then go to “ files and notes” on my homepage.

Sincerely,

Adam Bohnet
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