{"product_id":"the-real-modern-christopher-p-hanscom-9780674073265","title":"The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe contentious relationship between modernism and realism has powerfully influenced literary history throughout the twentieth century and into the present. In 1930s Korea, at a formative moment in these debates, a \"crisis of representation\" stemming from the loss of faith in language as a vehicle of meaningful reference to the world became a central concern of literary modernists as they operated under Japanese colonial rule. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristopher P. Hanscom examines the critical and literary production of three prose authors central to 1930s literary circles--Pak T'aewon, Kim Yujong, and Yi T'aejun--whose works confront this crisis by critiquing the concept of transparent or \"empiricist\" language that formed the basis for both a nationalist literary movement and the legitimizing discourse of assimilatory colonization. Bridging literary and colonial studies, this re-reading of modernist fiction within the imperial context illuminates links between literary practice and colonial discourse and questions anew the relationship between aesthetics and politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Real Modern\u003c\/i\u003e challenges Eurocentric and nativist perspectives on the derivative particularity of non-Western literatures, opens global modernist studies to the similarities and differences of the colonial Korean case, and argues for decolonization of the ways in which non-Western literatures are read in both local and global contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher P. Hanscom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674073266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674073265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.37w x 0.85d","brand":"Christopher P. Hanscom","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086759178495,"sku":"9780674073265","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed0cae90-823a-4fcd-bbf0-c02fa0576273.jpg?v=1769096409","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-real-modern-christopher-p-hanscom-9780674073265","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}