Gendered Landscapes: Short Fiction by Modern and Contemporary Korean Women Novel

Brand new in excellent condition hardcover book Gendered Landscapes: Short Fiction by Modern and Contemporary Korean Women Novel, translated and with an introduction by Yung-Hee Kim. 352 pages. ISBN 978-1-939161-87-1. Publication date: December 31, 2017. Ages 18+ Gendered Landscapes presents ten short stories and novellas by representative modern Korean women writers dating from the 1930s to the end of the 1990s. Signature pieces selected from the acclaimed novelists' repertoire, these narratives address issues related to Korean women as gendered beings in a Confucian-governed patriarchal society. Thematically interlinked and compellingly articulated, they bring into full view the vivid and colorful mosaic of Korean women's lives over the past seven decades, engendered under the formidable sway of centuries-old Confucian gender ideologies and practices. Yung-Hee Kim is Professor of Korean literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her publications include Questioning Minds: Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers and Readings in Modern Korean Literature.