This book is about the changing constructs of modernity, masculinity, and gender relations and discourses in Korean literature and cinema during the crucial decades of the colonial and postcolonial era, from the 1920s to the 1960s, which have an...
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This book is about the changing constructs of modernity, masculinity, and gender relations and discourses in Korean literature and cinema during the crucial decades of the colonial and postcolonial era, from the 1920s to the 1960s, which have an enduring and wide-ranging impact on Korea's cultural experiences of the past century
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Introduction -- New woman, romance, and railroads : the paradox of colonial modernity -- Burden of the past : confessional writings in the space of decolonization -- Literature of instability and despair : woman and masculinity in postwar fiction -- Nation re-building and postwar South Korean cinema : The coachman and The stray bullet -- Conclusion.