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Han Sorya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK

by Brian Myers
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780939657841
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: USD 49.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asian / General

This first and only study of North Korean literary history by a Western scholar deals with the crucial role played by Han S�rya, 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(S�ngnyangi).

Brian R. Myers received a doctorate in Korean studies from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen. He is also the author of A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose, Melville House Publishing.

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