Korean Literature 211. Ideologies of Language in Modern and Contemporary Korea

Prof. Si Nae Park	Descriptions and prescriptions about how we (should) speak and write are fundamentally, if at times covertly, related to larger questions pertaining to cultural identity, history, power, gender, and contents and contours of literature. How are ideas about language and writing constructed, contested, and remembered? What are the impulses and impacts of such ideas? In this seminar, students will become familiarized with key sites of ideologies of language and writing using Korea as a nexus. We will begin with ideologies of language and writing in Korea within the Sinographic cosmopolis (i.e., shared script in pre-20th-century East Asia), Korea under Japanese Imperialism, postcolonial and postwar Korea, and contemporary Korea. Course Website

Descriptions and prescriptions about how we (should) speak and write are fundamentally, if at times covertly, related to larger questions pertaining to cultural identity, history, power, gender, and contents and contours of literature. How are ideas about language and writing constructed, contested, and remembered? What are the impulses and impacts of such ideas? In this seminar, students will become familiarized with key sites of ideologies of language and writing using Korea as a nexus. We will begin with ideologies of language and writing in Korea within the Sinographic cosmopolis (i.e., shared script in pre-20th-century East Asia), Korea under Japanese Imperialism, postcolonial and postwar Korea, and contemporary Korea.

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