[KS] Korea and Koreans as featured in literary works by non-Korean(ist) writers
DeberniereTorrey
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Sat Oct 15 20:14:44 EDT 2011
Chaim Potok's novel set in Korea and featuring Korean protagonists is I am the Clay, 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.
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:13:51 EDT
From: Afostercarter at aol.com
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Dear friends and colleagues,
A literary question, for the weekend:
How often do Korean characters, or Korea itself,
feature in works not by Koreans or Korea specialists?
Not a lot, I think. Three recent cases spring to mind
- there may be many others, which I've overlooked -
one of which has only just come to my attention:
1. Margaret Drabble's ambitious The Red Queen, on which I have
posted previously:
_http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.htm
l_
(http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.html)
2. Eunice Park, in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad Love Story.
3. And now, someone is venturing into Inspector O territory.
Adam Johnson's next novel, The Orphan Master's Son,
is set in North Korea. An extract is available here
(part of which I fear qualifies as an entry for the
Literary Review's annual Bad Sex award):
_http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-%E2%80%9Cfor-the-love
-of-juche%E2%80%9D-by-adam-johnson/_
(http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-?for-the-love-of-juche?-by-adam-johnson/)
Subscribers to Granta can read a rather better passage
in that magazine's latest issue (not available online):
_http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later_
(http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later)
No doubt we should wait for the complete work,
due out in January 2012. It already has a page at Amazon:
_http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693_
(http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693)
The author, who I gather teaches creative writing at Stanford
- does he mingle with the Koreanists and Korea programs there? -
- discusses his purposes here:
_http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/_
(http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/)
Are there more such instances? I'm sure there must be.
Kind regards
Aidan FC
Aidan Foster-Carter
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds
University, UK
E: _afostercarter at aol.com_ (mailto:afostercarter at aol.com)
_afostercarter at yahoo.com_ (mailto:afostercarter at yahoo.com) W: _www.aidanfc.net_
(http://www.aidanfc.net/)
W in Korea:
_http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http://aidanfc.net/index.html_
(http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http:/aidanfc.net/index.html)
Recent articles, broadcasts and other activities on Korea (mostly):
15 October, 2011 Soft-soaping Samsung The lead letter in the Economist,
criticising their kid-glove coverage of the big beast recently
_http://www.economist.com/node/21532241_ (http://www.economist.com/node/21532241)
12 October, 2011 Oh no. Oh dear. An honest man bows out. Farewell to
Seoul?s former mayor, Oh Se-hoon.
_http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html_ (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html)
3 October 2011 North Korea: The South changes course. My latest
monthly update on the DPRK for NewNations:
_http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1_ (http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1)
27 September 2011 To catch a roach. It?s surprising who you
meet in luxury Swiss hotels ? and great to be back in the International
Herald Tribune, on a subject other than Korea just for once.
_http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html_
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html)
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:18:56 -0400
From: "Edward J. Baker" <ejbaker at fas.harvard.edu>
To: "Laurel Kendall" <lkendall at amnh.org>
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Subject: Re: [KS] Korea and Koreans as featured in literary works by
non-Korean(ist) writers
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Dear Friends,
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.
Yours,
Ed
On Oct 15, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Laurel Kendall wrote:
> Chaim Potak (sp?)'s THE BOOK OF LIGHTS is set mostly in Korea (the hero is
> an army chaplain--although Korean characters are few). He includes one
> Korean incident that became the basis for a more "Korean" novel which came
> out 10 years or more ago. I forget the title, I haven't read it, (afraid
> to).
>
> David Lodge's SMALL WORLD includes a Korean character, the mistress of the
> grand old man of letters -- not exactly an uplifting image nor one that is
> any more than paper thin.
>
> Peal Buck wrote a Korean-set novel way back when, not one of her best.
> The title eludes me.
>
> Thanks for raising this question, others will probably think of more, but
> all, I suspect, in bits and pieces. It is at least heartening that
> authors of Korean ancestry are producing much that is worthy of serious
> attention.
>
> Laurel
>
>
>
>> Dear friends and colleagues,
>>
>> A literary question, for the weekend:
>>
>> How often do Korean characters, or Korea itself,
>> feature in works not by Koreans or Korea specialists?
>>
>> Not a lot, I think. Three recent cases spring to mind
>> - there may be many others, which I've overlooked -
>> one of which has only just come to my attention:
>>
>> 1. Margaret Drabble's ambitious The Red Queen, on which I have
>> posted previously:
>> _http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.htm
>> l_
>> (http://koreaweb.ws/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2005-July/004938.html)
>>
>> 2. Eunice Park, in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad Love Story.
>>
>> 3. And now, someone is venturing into Inspector O territory.
>> Adam Johnson's next novel, The Orphan Master's Son,
>> is set in North Korea. An extract is available here
>>
>> (part of which I fear qualifies as an entry for the
>> Literary Review's annual Bad Sex award):
>>
>> _http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-%E2%80%9Cfor-the-love
>> -of-juche%E2%80%9D-by-adam-johnson/_
>> (http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/03/excerpt-?for-the-love-of-juche?-by-adam-johnson/)
>>
>> Subscribers to Granta can read a rather better passage
>> in that magazine's latest issue (not available online):
>> _http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later_
>> (http://www.granta.com/Magazine/Granta-116-Ten-Years-Later)
>>
>> No doubt we should wait for the complete work,
>> due out in January 2012. It already has a page at Amazon:
>> _http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693_
>> (http://www.amazon.com/Orphan-Masters-Son-Novel/dp/0307939693)
>>
>> The author, who I gather teaches creative writing at Stanford
>> - does he mingle with the Koreanists and Korea programs there? -
>> - discusses his purposes here:
>> _http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/_
>> (http://electricliterature.com/blog/2010/09/10/interview-adam-johnson/)
>>
>> Are there more such instances? I'm sure there must be.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Aidan FC
>>
>>
>> Aidan Foster-Carter
>> Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds
>> University, UK
>> E: _afostercarter at aol.com_ (mailto:afostercarter at aol.com)
>> _afostercarter at yahoo.com_ (mailto:afostercarter at yahoo.com) W:
>> _www.aidanfc.net_
>> (http://www.aidanfc.net/)
>> W in Korea:
>> _http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http://aidanfc.net/index.html_
>> (http://web.archive.org/web/20090202080126/http:/aidanfc.net/index.html)
>> Recent articles, broadcasts and other activities on Korea (mostly):
>> 15 October, 2011 Soft-soaping Samsung The lead letter in the
>> Economist,
>> criticising their kid-glove coverage of the big beast recently
>> _http://www.economist.com/node/21532241_
>> (http://www.economist.com/node/21532241)
>> 12 October, 2011 Oh no. Oh dear. An honest man bows out. Farewell
>> to
>> Seoul?s former mayor, Oh Se-hoon.
>> _http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html_
>> (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MJ12Dg01.html)
>> 3 October 2011 North Korea: The South changes course. My latest
>> monthly update on the DPRK for NewNations:
>> _http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1_
>> (http://newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#new1)
>> 27 September 2011 To catch a roach. It?s surprising who
>> you
>> meet in luxury Swiss hotels ? and great to be back in the International
>> Herald Tribune, on a subject other than Korea just for once.
>> _http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html_
>> (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/opinion/27iht-edcarter27.html)
>>
>>
>>
>
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