[KS] CKR/CUP Book Publication Announcement

Jooyeon Kim jk2857 at columbia.edu
Fri Jan 8 10:44:41 EST 2021


Dear KS moderator,



Could you please circulate the announcement below via the Korean studies
listserv? Thank you!



Best,

Jooyeon

Dear Colleagues,



CKR is pleased to announce the publication of Ksenia Chizhova’s book *Kinship
Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic
Everyday* published by Columbia University Press. This is the fourth book
in the Center for Korean Research book series. For more information on the
series, please visit: http://ckr.weai.columbia.edu/ckr-cup-book-series/

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*Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the
Domestic Everyday
<https://cup.columbia.edu/book/kinship-novels-of-early-modern-korea/9780231187817>*

Ksenia Chizhova

Columbia University Press

Date of Publication: January 2021




*Abstract*
The lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the
early twentieth century. These vast works unfold genealogically, tracing
the lives of several generations. New storylines, often written by
different authors, follow the lives of the descendants of the original
protagonists, offering encyclopedic accounts of domestic life cycles and
relationships. Elite women transcribed these texts—which span tens and even
hundreds of volumes—in exquisite vernacular calligraphy and transmitted
them through generations in their families.

In *Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea*, Ksenia Chizhova foregrounds
lineage novels and the domestic world in which they were read to recast the
social transformations of Chosŏn Korea and the development of early modern
Korean literature. She demonstrates women’s centrality to the creation of
elite vernacular Korean practices and argues that domestic-focused genres
such as lineage novels, commemorative texts, and family tales shed light on
the emergence and perpetuation of patrilineal kinship structures. The
proliferation of kinship narratives in the Chosŏn period illuminates the
changing affective contours of familial bonds and how the domestic space
functioned as a site of their everyday experience. Drawing on an archive of
women-centered elite vernacular texts, Chizhova uncovers the structures of
feelings and conceptions of selfhood beneath official genealogies and legal
statutes, revealing that kinship is as much a textual as a social practice.
Shedding new light on Korean literary history and questions of Korea’s
modernity, this book also offers a broader lens on the global rise of the
novel.
*ABOUT THE AUTHOR*

Ksenia Chizhova is assistant professor of East Asian studies at Princeton
University.
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