“Manchuria” and the Proletarian Literature of Colonial Korea

2020 ◽  
pp. 269-284
Author(s):  
Watanabe Naoki
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Korea ◽  
Proletarian Literature

“Manchuria” and the Proletarian Literature of Colonial Korea

2020 ◽  
pp. 269-284
Author(s):  
Watanabe Naoki
Keyword(s):  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Colonial Korea ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
Proletarian Literature ◽  
Tumen River ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the relationship between Korean Agrarian Literature and colonialism in Manchuria. Certain Korean writers dealt with problems arising from Korean farmers flowing into Manchuria and wrote related fiction to regard Korean migrant issues as reflections of their own dilemmas expressed in Korean Proletarian Agrarian Literature. They especially emphasized Manchuria as a place of human reform. However, colonial victimhood transformed into colonialism when they crossed the Tumen River, the border between the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria. This chapter reveals how the ironic shift of subjectivity performed in the process shows how Korean ethnic nationalism was domesticated into imperial logic

War Paintings in Colonial Korea during the Asia-pacific War

2016 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 197-215
Author(s):  
Kim Yong Cheol ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
Colonial Korea

Malygina, N. (2018). Andrey Platonov and literary Moscow: А. К. Voronsky, A. M. Gorky, В. А. Pilnyak, B. L. Pasternak, Artyom Vesyoly, S. F. Budantsev, V. S. Grossman. Moscow; St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya. (In Russ.)

2020 ◽  
pp. 290-293
Author(s):  
E. V. Sharygina (Novikova) ◽  
V. I. Novikov
Keyword(s):  
Complex Structure ◽  
Proletarian Literature ◽  
Progressive Ideal ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Period

Malygina’s book portrays Andrey Platonov in the context of the literary period in which he was active. Malygina also summarizes the history of the journal Krasnaya Nov, the Krug Publishers, and the Pereval Group. While depicted as particularly close to Pilnyak due to his expressionist tendencies, Platonov, however, remained faithful to the utopian ideal of ‘proletarian literature’ and reserved tongue-incheek comments for Soviet literary aristocrats. Although a fi   ce critic of Soviet reality, Platonov cherished his own ‘Soviet project’ – he envisaged a truly revolutionary, progressive ideal of a genuinely democratic nature. The literary period in question is shown to have a complex structure, unyielding to ideological abstractions.

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