Intimate Empire - Nayoung Aimee Kwon

Intimate Empire

Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan
Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
2015
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5910-4 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines the Japanese language literature written by Koreans during late Japanese colonialism. She demonstrates that simply characterizing that literature as collaborationist obscures the complicated relationship these authors had with colonialism, modernity, and identity, as well as the relationship between colonizers and the colonized.
In Intimate Empire Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines intimate cultural encounters between Korea and Japan during the colonial era and their postcolonial disavowal. After the Japanese empire’s collapse in 1945, new nation-centered histories in Korea and Japan actively erased these once ubiquitous cultural interactions that neither side wanted to remember.  Kwon reconsiders these imperial encounters and their contested legacies through the rise and fall of Japanese-language literature and other cultural exchanges between Korean and Japanese writers and artists in the Japanese empire. The contrast between the prominence of these and other forums of colonial-era cultural collaboration between the colonizers and the colonized, and their denial in divided national narrations during the postcolonial aftermath, offers insights into the paradoxical nature of colonial collaboration, which Kwon characterizes as embodying desire and intimacy with violence and coercion. Through the case study of the formation and repression of imperial subjects between Korea and Japan, Kwon considers the imbrications of colonialism and modernity and the entwined legacies of colonial and Cold War histories in the Asia-Pacific more broadly.
 

Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.

Acknowledgments  ix

On Naming, Romanization, and Translations  xiii

1. Colonial Modernity and the Conundrum of Representation  1

2. Translating Korean Literature  17

3. A Minor Writer  41

4. Into the Light  59

5. Colonial Abject  80

6. Performing Colonial Kitsch  99

7. Overhearing Transcolonial Roundtables  131

8. Turning Local  154

9. Forgetting Manchurian Memories  174

10. Paradox of Postcoloniality  195

Notes  213

Bibliography  247

Index  263

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.6.2015
Zusatzinfo 41 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 499 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8223-5910-3 / 0822359103
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-5910-4 / 9780822359104
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