Han Sorya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK Contributor(s): Myers, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0939657848 ISBN-13: 9780939657841 Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series OUR PRICE: $46.48 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - Literary Collections | Asian - General - History | Asia - Korea |
Dewey: 895.734 |
LCCN: 94184777 |
Series: Cornell East Asia |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.4" W x 8.7" (1.00 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - East Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This first and only study of North Korean literary history by a Western scholar deals with the crucial role played by Han Sôrya, chairman of the D.P.R.K.'s Federation of Literature and Art from 1948 to his purge in 1962, both in devising the iconography of Kim Il Sung's personality cult and in defining the early course of North Korean letters. Through brief studies of Han's own canonical works the author also sets out to dispel the widely-held assumption that North Korean literature is compatible with Soviet and Chinese socialist realism. The appendix includes a complete translation of Han's 1951 novella Jackals(Sûngnyangi). |