Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Tables ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I Changing Practices During the Late Chosŏn Era
7. 1 Yŏl (烈): Chaste Martyrdom and Literati Writing in Late Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) 23
8. 2 Politics and the Discourse of Virtuous Sacrifice in Late Chosŏn Korea 45
9. 3 Resurrecting Ch’oe Cheu: Tonghak Martyrdom in Late Chosŏn Dynasty Korea 71
10. 4 Choosing to Die: Catholic Voluntary Martyrdom in Late Chosŏn Korea 87
11. PART II Colonial-Postcolonial Transition in South Korea
12. 5 A False Martyr’s Wager: Yi Kwangsu and Colonial Collaboration 113
13. 6 The Political Dynamics of Sacrifice and the Sacrificial Narrative in Modern Korea: The State and the Historical Ontology of Student Soldiers 142
14. PART III Democracy and Labor Activism in South Korea
15. 7 Reading Chun Tae-il: Making Sense of a Worker Self-Immolation in 1970s South Korea 165
16. 8 The Construction of Martyrdom and Self-Immolation in South Korea 202
17. 9 Untimely Death and Martyrdom after May 1980: Suicide in the South Korean Democracy Movement Seen through the Case of Pak Sŭnghŭi 231
18. 10 The Birth of an Ethical Subject : The 1980s and South Korean Literature 260
19. 11 From Martyrdom to Apostasy: Kim Chiha and the Politics of Death in South Korean Democratizations 287
20. Bibliography 315
21. Contributors 350
22. Index 353