This volume critically evaluates the literatures of both North and South Korea after the Korean War. The final section approaches Korean literature from an international perspective in examining the literature of Korean immigrants living abroad. In recent days, both researches and general readers outside Korea have taken an increasing interest in Korean literature.
Ch’oe explores both the genesis and the aftershocks of historical outrages such as the Kwangju Massacre of 1980, in wich a reported 2,000 civilians were killed for protesting government military rule. The novella follows the wanderings of a girl traumatized by her mother’s murder and strikes home the injustice of state-sanctioned violence against men and especially women. “Whisper Yet” …