Figuring Korean futures : children's literature in modern Korea /

In the 1920s, a narrator-adult voice began to speak for the first time directly to a child-reader whose mind was deemed knowable and moldable. Writers and educators saw the qualities of this unique child audience manifest in a new concept called the child-heart, or tongsim. This text examines childr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zur, Dafna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Children's periodicals, Korean > History > 20th century.
Children's literature, Korean > History and criticism.
Korean periodicals > History > 20th century.
Littérature de jeunesse coréenne > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Children's literature, Korean
Children's periodicals, Korean
Korean periodicals
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the child in twentieth-century Korea
  • Rise of the youth magazine in early colonial Korea
  • Figuring the child-heart
  • Writing the language of the child-heart
  • The proletarian child fights back
  • Playing war in late colonial Korea
  • Liberating the child-heart
  • Epilogue : the turn to science in post-war North and South Korea.

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