{"product_id":"the-red-room-bruce-fulton-9780824833978","title":"The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea","description":"\u003cp\u003eModern Korean fiction is to a large extent a literature of witness to the historic upheavals of twentieth-century Korea. Often inspired by their own experiences, contemporary writers continue to show us how individual Koreans have been traumatized by wartime violence--whether the uprooting of whole families from the ancestral home, life on the road as war refugees, or the violent deaths of loved ones. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Red Room brings together stories by three canonical Korean writers who examine trauma as a simple fact of life. In Pak Wan-so's \"In the Realm of the Buddha,\" trauma manifests itself as an undigested lump inside the narrator, a mass needing to be purged before it consumes her. The protagonist of O Chong-hui's \"Spirit on the Wind\" suffers from an incomprehensible wanderlust--the result of trauma that has escaped her conscious memory. In the title story by Im Ch'or-u, trauma is recycled from torturer to victim when a teacher is arbitrarily detained by unnamed officials. Western readers may find these stories bleak, even chilling, yet they offer restorative truths when viewed in light of the suffering experienced by all victims of war and political violence regardless of place and time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Fulton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082483397X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780824833978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Hawaii Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Bruce Fulton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46767123071231,"sku":"9780824833978","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_66e6a95a-7876-4416-a30d-aa0c81ce9d5b.jpg?v=1744168913","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-red-room-bruce-fulton-9780824833978","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}