Course Description
This course offers an introduction to Korean female writers from premodern to modern times, focusing primarily on representative works by women, including prose, lyrics, songs, short fiction and novels. Readings will include literary, critical, and theoretical works, and various topics on gender and culture of Korea. The course will enable students to learn about women’s status, role, and activities in the literary sphere and explore how women’s memories and experience were interwoven into diverse writings. We will also compare women’s texts with contemporary film to see how the theme is being adapted and transformed in different contexts.
Course Objectives
This course offers an introduction to topics in modern Korean literature in English translation from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries, focusing primarily on female writers’ works, including poems, essays, interviews, and fiction. Topics range from Confucian patriarchy, colonialism, war trauma, national division, industrialization, postmodernism, and transnationalism, and readings can contain literary, critical, and theoretical works. This term we will explore how the women’s writings interweave the historical events and their personal memories into literary/fictional texts and compare the stories with modern/contemporary films to see how the theme is being repeated, adapted, and transformed in different genres/contexts.
본 과목은 15세기에서 21세기의 한국의 여성 작가들의 작품을 영어 및 한국어로 읽고 다양한 접근과 해석을 모색해 보는 강의입니다. 조선 시대의 한시과 산문을 비롯하여 유교적 가부장제, 식민 시대, 남북 분단, 산업화 및 포스트 모더니즘과 초국경적 다양한 문학 색채를 드러내는 작품을 직접 읽으며 역사적 문맥 속에서 각 작가들이 자신의 관찰과 경험과 사유를 어떤 방식으로 글에 담아내었는지 살펴봅니다. 강의 운영은 영어와 한국어로 같이 진행되며 학생들의 외국어 수준에 따라 한국어로 토의/발표하는 것을 허용할 수 있습니다.