[KS] book search for teaching

[Nayoung Aimee Kwon]

Hi Mike,
Sounds like a fascinating course. For short stories related to the Korean
War, Pak Wanso's stories such as  "In the Realm of the Buddha" in *The Red
Room* quoted above; and those in *My Very Last Possession and Other Stories
*work well in class*; *It might be interesting to compare Hwang Sok Young's
works on the Korean and Vietnam Wars: *The Guest *with *The Shadow of
Arms, *for example, although these are long novels.  Other recommended
works about the Vietnam War are Le Minh Khue's *The Stars, the Earth, the
River* and Bao Ninh's *The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam*. How
about films? Relating Korean, U.S. and Vietnamese filmic representations of
the Vietnam War would be interesting. Korean films such as *White Badge*and
*Sunny* (님은 먼곳에) come to mind... From Hollywood, there are so many,
but *Apocalypse
Now* and *Deer Hunter* are classics that still work well in class. You
could do something similar with films and literature about the Korean war.

Best,
Aimee


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jina Kim <jinaekim at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> I would also recommend *The Useless Servants* by Rolando Hinojosa and *The
> Surrendered *by Chang Rae Lee. Both of these are novels but excerpts can
> be assigned.
>
> Regards,
> Jina
> Smith College
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: robime at indiana.edu
> To: koreanstudies at koreanstudies.com
> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:06:46 +0000
> Subject: [KS] book search for teaching
>
>
>  Dear Colleagues:
>
>
>
> I’m teaching a course in the spring term on “The Cross Cultural
> Experiences of War” which deals with US wars in Asia….WW II, Korean War,
> and Vietnam.
>
>
>
> I’m using fiction in part to get students to think about how these wars
> have affected our attitudes and relations with East Asia.   I am using
> Heinz Insu Fenkl’s  wonderful “Memories of My Ghost Bother” to cover Korean
> War aftermaths…..but I was wondering if there is some new translation
> collections from Korean of short stories centered around the War that I
> might use as well.
>
>
>
> Happy Holidays,
>
>
>
> Mike Robinson
>



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Nayoung Aimee Kwon
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Arts of the Moving Image,
Women's Studies
Duke University
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