Figuring Korean futures : children's literature in modern Korea /
In the 1920s, a narrator-adult voice began to speak for the first time directly to a child-reader whose mind was deemed knowable and moldable. Writers and educators saw the qualities of this unique child audience manifest in a new concept called the child-heart, or tongsim. This text examines childr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2017]
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| ISBN: | 9781503603110 1503603113 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the child in twentieth-century Korea
- Rise of the youth magazine in early colonial Korea
- Figuring the child-heart
- Writing the language of the child-heart
- The proletarian child fights back
- Playing war in late colonial Korea
- Liberating the child-heart
- Epilogue : the turn to science in post-war North and South Korea.