Triangle Republics: Cross-Border Literary Transits Between the Cold War Koreas and Japan [Kõva köide]

Challenging the notion of closed borders, Triangle Republics offers a unique approach to understanding transnational literature, writers, and literary cultures in North Korea, South Korea, and Japan. -- Immanuel Kim, author of Laughing North Koreans: The Culture of Comedy Films Kiefs book brilliantly retrieves and analyzes subterranean forces that challenged the official narratives of the Cold War order in North Korea, South Korea, and Japan and the dominant politics of these bounded yet porous nation-states. Triangle Republics is a major revisionist work of literary scholarship and intellectual history that transforms the study of the Korean peninsula, postwar Japan, and the Cold War era. -- Jin-kyung Lee, University of California, San Diego Triangle Republics provides a meticulously researched exploration of the complex flow of texts, information, conversations, and political discourse across and within the contested borders of the two postcolonial Koreas and Japan. A must-read for anyone seeking to complicate the received literary histories of the Cold War. -- Christina Yi, author of Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea I Jonathan Kiefs painstaking research on print culture in Korean and Japanese demonstrates the importance of moving past the determining power of national and linguistic boundaries and points to Japan and its diasporic writers as important nodes in the formation of the literary fields on the Korean peninsula. -- Dafna Zur, Department of East Asian Literatures and Cultures, Stanford University