From domestic women to sensitive young men : translating the individual in early colonial Korea /

Yang, Yoon Sun,

From domestic women to sensitive young men : translating the individual in early colonial Korea / Yoon Sun Yang. - 211 p. ; 24 cm - Harvard East Asian monographs ; 405 .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-202) and index.

Examines how the European notion of the individual put down its roots in Korean literature, especially through literary figures, in the early twentieth century. Using Korean literary examples, it calls into question the belief that there is only one kind of individuality transferable across cultural, temporal, and gender boundaries."--

9780674976979 (hardcover : alk. paper)


Korean literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Korean literature--Western influences.

895.709003 / Y221f