New Books

Cho, Heekyoung, ed. 2022. The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature. Routledge.

Chizhova, Ksenia. 2021. Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday. Columbia University Press.

Yang, Yoon Sun, ed. 2021. Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature. Routledge.

Chung, Hye Seung. 2020. Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations. Rutgers University Press.

Kim, Immanuel. 2020. Laughing North Koreans: The Culture of Comedy Films. Lexington Books.

____, trans. 2020. Nam-Nyong Paek, Friend: A Novel from North Korea. Columbia University Press.

Park, Si Nae. 2020. The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing. Columbia University Press.

Kim, Jina E. 2019. Urban Modernities in Colonial Korea and Taiwan. Brill.

Park, Sunyoung. 2019. Revisiting Minjung: New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s. University of Michigan Press.

_____ and Sang Joon Park, eds. 2019. Readymade Boddhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction. Kaya Press.

An, Jinsoo. 2018. Parameters of Disavowal: Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema. University of California Press.

Cho, Sookja. 2018. Transforming Gender and Emotion: The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea. University of Michigan Press.  

____. 2018. The Tale of Cho Ung: A Classic of Vengeance, Loyalty, and Romance. Columbia University Press.

Kim, Immanuel. 2018. Rewriting Revolution: Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction. University of Hawaii Press.

Poole, Janet, trans. 2018. Yi T’aejun, Dust and Other Stories. Columbia University Press.

Ryu, Youngju, ed. 2018. Cultures of Yusin: South Korea in the 1970s. University of Michigan Press.

Zur, Dafna. 2017. Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea. Stanford University Press.  

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