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Record Nr.

UNINA9910511718003321

Autore

Kim Jina

Titolo

Urban modernities in colonial Korea and Taiwan / / by Jina E. Kim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2019]

ISBN

90-04-40116-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 pages)

Collana

East Asian comparative literature and culture, , 2212-4772 ; ; volume 12

Disciplina

895.7/09004

Soggetti

Korean literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Chinese literature - Taiwan - 20th century - History and criticism

Cities and towns in literature

Colonies in literature

Imperialism in literature

Comparative literature - Chinese and Korean

Electronic books.

Japan Colonies History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Text and the City -- Discovering Modernity -- Linguistic Modernity -- Consuming Modernity -- Visual Modernity -- Postscript -- Back Matter -- New Words -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.