Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The disappearing future of colonial fascism -- The unruly detail of late colonialism -- The sociology of colonial nostalgia -- A private orient -- Peri-urban dreams -- Imperialization, or the resolution of crisis -- Taking possession of the emperor's language -- Epilogue: Afterlives.
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Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonial subjects of an empire headed toward total war, Korean writers in this global fascist moment produced some of the most sophisticated writings of twentieth-century modernism. Yi T'aejun, Ch'oe Myongik, Im Hwa, So Insik, Ch'oe Chaeso, Pak T'aewon, Kim Namch'on, and O Changhwan, among other Korean writers, lived through a rare colo.
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When the future disappears.
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Imperialism in literature.
Korean literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.