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 한국 여성 작가의 작품을 영어/한국어로 읽고 다양한 접근과 해석을 모색해 보는 강의입니다. 조선시대의 여성 작품에서부터 시작하여 유교적 가부장제, 식민시대, 남북분단, 산업화를 거쳐 포스트 모더니즘과 초국경주의적 문학 색채를 보여주는 여성 작가의 작품을 직접 읽으며 역사적 문맥 속에서 작가들이 자신의 관찰과 경험을 어떤 방식으로 글에 담아 내고 이슈를 재현하고 있는지 살펴봅니다. 이와 더불어 문학 텍스트 속에서 역사적 기억이 어떻게 재구성되는지 살펴보기 위해 시청각 자료를 비교 검토해 보는 시간을 가집니다. 강의 운영은 코로나 방역 수칙에 맞춰 비대면이나 대면 형태로 이루어 지며, 영어/한국어 지문을 읽고 한국어로 토의/발표합니다.