Introduction Impossible Speech and the Politics of Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction Impossible Speech and the Politics of Literature 1
5. CHAPTER ONE The Return of the Real in South Korean Fiction 27
6. CHAPTER TWO Displacing the Common Sense of Trauma Han Kang’s A Boy Is Coming 45
7. CHAPTER THREE Fabricating the Real Accounting for North Korea in Escapee Narratives and in Fiction 84
8. CHAPTER FOUR Disturbing Sensibility Transgressing Generic Norms in Castaway on the Moon and I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK 123
9. Conclusion 152
10. Notes 171
11. Bibliography 207
12. Index 219