Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Culturalism and the Human 26
6. 2. The Colony and the World: Nation, Poetics, and Biopolitics in Yi Kwang-su 62
7. 3. Labor and Bildung in Marxism and the Proletarian Arts 98
8. 4. Other Chronotopes in Realist Literature 134
9. 5. World History and Minor Literature 167
10. 6. Modernism without a Home: Cinematic Literature, Colonial Architecture, and Yi Sang’s Poetics 213
11. Notes 249
12. Appendix 271
13. Selected Bibliography 277
14. Index 293
15. STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE: Columbia University 308