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Intimate Empire

Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan
  • Nayoung Aimee Kwon
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2015
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Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines the Japanese language literature written by Koreans during late Japanese colonialism. She demonstrates that simply characterizing that literature as collaborationist obscures the complicated relationship these authors had with colonialism, modernity, and identity, as well as the relationship between colonizers and the colonized.

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Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.

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"Besides many compelling analyses and arguments made in Intimate Empire, plentiful visual materials provide us a fascinating glimpse into the cultural fields in the empire.... it is a great contribution to the scholarship on colonial culture and imperialism for its exemplary handling of archives and its succinct arguments made based on comparative readings of texts. It is an essential text for researchers of colonial literature, transcultural colonial exchange, cultural fields in wartime Japan, and translation."

-- Jooyeon Rhee Acta Koreana

"Intimate Empire is a most welcome addition to transcultural scholarship on East Asian literatures and cultures and sets an excellent example for future research on imperialism in East Asia and well beyond."

-- Karen Thornber Pacific Affairs

"Intimate Empire establishes critical questions for historians to ponder, beginning with: Who writes the empire? How does the language they use matter? Kwon has demonstrated many pathways into, as well as offered new and alternate routes for, future discovery."

-- Alexis Dudden American Historical Review

"Nayoung Aimee Kwon’s examination of Korean authors during the Japanese imperial period is a richly theorized, sensitive, and engaging work of literary and colonial history."

-- Denis Gainty History: Reviews of New Books

"Kwon's book will become an instant classic of the postcolonial theory approach to colonial Korea's literary scene."

-- Janet Poole Journal of Asian Studies


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July 17, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9780822375401
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41 illustrations
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