ClassInfo - Spring 2019 Asian Languages and Literature Classes

Spring 2019 | ALL 3536 Section 001: Modern Korean Literature (55665)

Instructor(s): Travis Workman
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019

Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM

UMTC, East Bank

Armory Building 116
Enrollment Status:: Open (51 of 75 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: Modern Korean literature in English translation from the colonial period until the 1990s. Read literary texts critically, using genre categories, theories of narrative voice, different understandings of modern literary subjectivity, and historical contextualization.
Class Description:: This course is an introduction to the literature of colonial Korea and South Korea, focusing on some the most significant Korean novels, short stories, and poetry of the 20th century. We discuss the emergence of literature as a cultural institution under Japanese colonial rule and how proletarian literature writers criticized the idea of ?art for art's sake? from a critical realist position. Moving to literature of South Korea (est. 1948), we focus on how novelists and poets have responded to a tumultuous political history of national division and occupation, the Korean and Vietnam wars, dictatorship, and rapid economic modernization. We consider changing notions of the relationship between culture and politics. We discuss the various literary techniques, styles, and genres that artists have used to represent historical events, to confront political oppression and violence, and to experiment with thought and aesthetic form. No prior knowledge of Korean language, literature, or history is required.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55665/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 26 March 2015

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