UPC: 9781503601680 | Figuring Korean Futures : Children s Literature in Modern Korea (Hardcover)
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This book is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a child-reader. This child audience was perceived as unique because of a new concept: the child-heart the perception that the child s body and mind were transparent and knowable and that they rested on the threshold of culture. This privileged location enabled writers and illustrators educators and psychologists intellectual elite and laypersons to envision the child as a powerful antidote to the present and as an uplifting metaphor of colonial Korea s future. Reading children s periodicals against the political educational and psychological discourses of their time Dafna Zur argues that the figure of the child was particularly favorable to the project of modernity and nation-building as well as to the colonial and postcolonial projects of socialization and nationalization. She demonstrates the ways in which Korean children s literature builds on a trajectory that begins with the child as an organic part of nature and ends in the post-colonial era with the child as the primary agent of control of nature. Figuring Korean Futures reveals the complex ways in which the figure of the child became a driving force of nostalgia that stood in for future aspirations for the individual family class and nation.
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