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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Main Author: Zur, Dafna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 children's literature at the moment the child emerged as a powerful metaphor of Korea's future, through the colonization of Korea, and up until the ideological entrenchment that intensified in the post-liberation period.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 286 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781503603110
1503603113

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