TREACHEROUS TRANSLATION: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s

[...]Suh discusses the poet Kim Suyong (..., 1921-1968) as a representative of a generation of bilingual intellectuals in postcolonial Korea who were forced to negotiate the politics and pragmatics of their differential language abilities amid a "nationalist imperative [...] to favor Korean as...

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Published in:Pacific affairs 2015, Vol.88 (3), p.718
Main Author: Mack, Edward
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Colonialism
Imperialism
Korean culture
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Summary:[...]Suh discusses the poet Kim Suyong (..., 1921-1968) as a representative of a generation of bilingual intellectuals in postcolonial Korea who were forced to negotiate the politics and pragmatics of their differential language abilities amid a "nationalist imperative [...] to favor Korean as the sole national language" (145).
ISSN:0030-851X
1715-3379