New Books

Kim, Pil Ho. 2024. Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea. University of Hawaii Press.

Wuerthner, Dennis, trans. 2024. Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P'ahan Chip by Yi Illo. MIT Press.

Thornber, Karen Laura. 2024. Gender Justice and Contemporary Asian Literatures: A Casebook. The Modern Language Association.

Hanscom, Christopher P. 2024. Impossible Speech: The Politics of Representation in Contemporary Korean Literature and Film. Columbia University Press.

Kiaer, Jieun. 2024. The Language of Hallyu: More Than Polite. Routledge.

Wall, Barbara. 2024. The Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling: A Graphical Approach to The Journey of the West in Korea. Brill.

Park, Chan E. 2023. Korean Pansori as Voice Theatre: History, Theory, Practice. Bloomsbury Academic.

Workman, Travis. 2023. Political Moods: Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Koreas. University of California Press.

Workman, Travis, ed. and trans. 2023. Humanism, Empire, and Nation: Korean Literary and Cultural Criticism. The Modern Language Association.

Hashimoto, Satoru. 2023. Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea. Columbia University Press.

Oh, Se-Mi. 2023. City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism. Stanford University Press.

Kwon, Hyuk-chan. 2023. How Three Kingdoms Became a National Novel of Korea: From Sanguozhi yanyi to Samgukchi. Brill.

Perry, Samuel, ed. and trans. 2023. A Century of Queer Korean Fiction. The Modern Language Association.

Hwang, Kyung Moon. 2023. Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Film. Palgrave.

Lee, Jae-yon. 2023. Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea: Close and Distant Reading. Routledge.

Kim, Youna, ed. 2023. Introducing Korean Popular Culture. Routledge.

Glomb, Vladimír and Miriam Löwensteinová, eds. 2023. The Lives and Legacy of Kim Sisǔp (1435-1493): Dissent and Creativity in Chosǒn Korea. Brill.

Kim, Hieyoon. 2023. Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea. University of California Press.

Lee, Namhee. 2022. Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea. Duke University Press. 

Jin, Dal Yong. 2022. Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture: Transmedia Storytelling, Digital Platforms and Genres. Harvard University Asia Center.

Cho, Hwisang. 2020. The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosǒn Korea. University of Washington Press.

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