[KS] Available Now! The Korean War Novel by Suk Koo Rhee (Edinburgh UP)

[Sungjin Shin]

Hello! I would like to share with the KS community a new publication from
the Edinburgh University Press.


*The Korean War Novel:* *Rewriting History from the Civil War to the
Post-Cold War* (2024) is now available for pre-order on the Edinburgh
University Press website:
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-korean-war-novel.html. You
may use the launch discount code NEW30 to get 30% off.



*The Korean War Novel* examines the ways that novels written by Korean and
Asian American writers have represented the Korean War. By studying the
ideological contours of works by Richard E. Kim, Ahn Junghyo, Susan Choi,
Ha Jin, Choi In-hun and Hwang Sok-yong, it documents the range of
historical narratives that have alternatively framed the Korean War as an
international war, a civil war, a reverse postcolonial war or ‘proxy war’,
a war between the genders, and an attempt to de-escalate the Cold War
itself. The dual role of North East Asians as both victims and willing
agents of the Cold War comes into focus in revisiting the conflict from the
post-Cold War perspective of decolonisation. Suk Koo Rhee writes back
against the authoritative version of Cold War historiography to explain the
contemporary nature of the unfinished conflict on the Korean peninsula
today.



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Suk Koo Rhee is Professor of English at Yonsei University, Seoul, where he
teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, Korean division
literature, Asian American Novel and Asian cinema. He serves as the
Managing Editor of *Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context*. His
essays have been published in a number of journals including *Journal of
Asian Studies*, *International Journal of Children’s Literature*, *Canadian
Journal of Film Studies* and *Genre*. His four Korean monographs on
postcolonial literature and theory received such major awards as The Yonsei
Outstanding Research Award, The Best Monograph of the Year Award (2011,
2021) from The English Language and Literature Association of Korea, and
The 2022 Korean Ministry of Education Award for the 50 Best NRF-Funded
Research Projects. He is appointed as the Underwood Distinguished Professor
during the term of 2021 to 2024, a prestigious award given to a Yonsei
faculty member who is internationally recognized for his or her research
accomplishments.
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