Urban modernities in colonial Korea and Taiwan

Discovering modernity : sketching urban landscapes of home and abroad -- Linguistic modernity modernism on the streets and the poetry of Kim Kirim and Yang Ch'ih-Ch'ang -- Consuming modernity : department stores and modernist fiction -- Visual modernity : screening women in colonial media...

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1. Verfasser: Kim, Jina E. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Leiden, Boston Brill 2019
Schriftenreihe:East Asian comparative literature and culture volume 12
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Zusammenfassung:Discovering modernity : sketching urban landscapes of home and abroad -- Linguistic modernity modernism on the streets and the poetry of Kim Kirim and Yang Ch'ih-Ch'ang -- Consuming modernity : department stores and modernist fiction -- Visual modernity : screening women in colonial media -- Postscript -- Contemporary urban life in Seoul and Taipei.
"Urban Modernities reconsiders Japanese colonialism in Korea and Taiwan through a relational study of modernist literature and urban aesthetics from the late colonial period. By charting intra-Asian and transregional circulations of writers, ideas, and texts, it reevaluates the dominant narrative in current scholarship that presents Korea and Taiwan as having vastly different responses to and experiences of Japanese colonialism. By comparing representations of various colonial spaces ranging from the nation, the streets, department stores, and print spaces to underscore the shared experiences of the quotidian and the poetic, Jina E. Kim shows how the culture of urban modernity enlivened networks of connections between the colonies and destabilized the metropole-colony relationship, thus also contributing to the broader formation of global modernism"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:IX, 209 Seiten
ISBN:9789004401150
978-90-04-40115-0
9789004401167