And So Flows History (Hawai'i Studies on Korea (Paperback))
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A deeply compelling saga of love, jealousy, honor, and greed, And So Flows History (Yoksanun hurunda, 1947) depicts the relentless power of exterior forces on the individual lives of three generations of the illustrious Cho family-from the waning years of the Choson dynasty in the late nineteenth century to the tumultuous post-liberation era. The novel opens with a tragic confrontation between two classes: the rape of a young slave by her master, the respected magistrate Cho Tongjun. Within a year, the magistrate has been murdered by Tonghak rebels, and his two sons are leading the family to ruin-one on account of his blind adherence to tradition, the other owing to his collaboration with the Japanese. Only Tongjun's youngest child provides hope for the future through her marriage to a enlightened young teacher and patriot.
"[This] is the first modern Korean novel that defines, both in duration of its action and the issues it addresses, the trajectory of recent Korean history. . . . [Hahn Moo-Sook] devises a form, which can be characterized as a novel of ideas, in which each character is a symbolic figure, and which interweaves the lives of the Cho family with the social forces of the time. Enormously influential, it prefigures such themes as tradition versus modernization, the repositioning of gender, the redefinition and recomposition of class, the interaction between Koreans in Korea, and those in the diaspora that are taken up in later works." -from the Introduction by JaHyun Kim Haboush
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Published in association with the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai'i, with the support of the Korean Literature Translation Institute.
And So Flows History (Hawai'i Studies on Korea (Paperback))
And So Flows History (Hawai'i Studies on Korea (Paperback)),Hahn Moo-Sook,Young-Key Kim-Renaud,University of Hawaii Press,0824829085,Asian - General,Fiction - General,General,History,History: World,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism
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