Heekyoung Cho is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature. Her articles discuss topics on translation and the creation of modern fiction, translation and censorship, serial publication, world literature, and webcomics. Her current research focuses on seriality in cultural production in both old and new media, including digital serialization and transmedial production, as well as graphic narratives and media platforms.

• Introduction—"Redefined and Challenged: Anthologizing Korean Literary Studies"Heekyoung ChoPart I. Premodern and Early Modern Korean LiteratureSection I. Manuscript Culture, Materiality, Performativity Manuscript, Not Print, in the Book World of Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910)Si Nae Park Performing Vernacular: Textual Practices as Bodily Events in Premodern KoreaHwisang ChoSection II. Print, Medium, Transregional Interactions Books for the Illiterate: the Haengsil-to (Illustrated Guide for Moral Deeds) of Chosŏn Korea Young Kyun Oh Print and Transnational Referentiality: Nam Kong-ch’ŏl’s Printing of Kŭmnŭng chip Suyoung SonSection III. Novel, Gender Dynamics, Transgression The Elite Vernacular Korean Culture of Chosŏn (1392-1910): Indeterminacy, Hybridity, StrangenessKsenia Chizhova Lovesickness and Death in Seventeenth-Century Korean LiteratureJanet Yoon-sun LeeSection IV. Language and Writing, Vernacular, Hybridity Idu in and as Korean LiteratureRoss King Hybrid Orthographies and the Emergence of Modern Literature in Early Twentieth-Century KoreaDaniel Pieper Part II. Modernity and the Colonial PeriodSection I. Gender and Sexuality Capital, Gender, and Modernity in Colonial Korean LiteratureKelly Y. Jeong Sexual Violence and Its Ideological Labor: Imagining Masculinist Equality and Androcentric Ethnos in Colonial Korean LiteratureJin-kyung LeeSection II. Translation and Crossing Incongruent Reflections: Translation and Bilingual Writings in Colonial KoreaYoon Jeong Oh The Japanese "Café France": Chŏng Chi-yong and Self-TranslationDavid Krolikoski Nonsense As Sensibility: The Importance of Not Being Earnest in Colonial Korea and TaiwanEvelyn Shih Section III. Modernity and Coloniality Language, Science, and the Status of Truth in Late Colonial KoreaChristopher P. Hanscom A Minor Modernist’s Conundrum of Representation: Kim Saryang and the Colonized I-NovelNayoung Aimee Kwon Rewriting the City: Yi Sang, Architecture, and the Figure of the Department StoreJina E. KimSection IV. Art and Politics A Forgotten Aesthetic: Reportage in Colonial Korea, 1920s–1930sSunyoung Park Literature (chŏnhyang sosŏl) and the Inward Gaze in the Late Colonial PeriodMi-Ryong Shim Part III. Liberation and Contemporary Korean LiteratureSection I. Decolonization, Cold War, Humanism Decolonizing Literature: Bridging Political Divides in the Post-Liberation PeriodJonathan Glade Vitalism and Existentialism in Early South Korean LiteratureJae Won Edward Chung Humanism as a Problem of Empire in Modern Korean Literature Travis Workman Section II. Politics, Memory, Orality Gender and Class Dynamics in the Utilitarian Discourse of the Developmental State and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South KoreaSerk-Bae Suh (Dis)embodiment of Memory: Gender, Memory, and Ethics in Human Acts by Han KangJi-Eun Lee Continuing Orality in Korean Poetry: Opening a P’an for the PageIvanna Sang Een YiSection III. Race, Diaspora, Intersectionality Ŏmma’s Baby, Appa’s Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of DiasporaJang Wook Huh Intersecting Korean DiasporasChristina Yi Whose Korea is it? Reading Zainichi Literature IntersectionallyCindi Textor Section IV. Division and North Korean Literature Closed Borders and Open Letters in the Cold War KoreasI Jonathan Kief A Good Wife is Hard to Find: North Korean Women in FictionImmanuel Kim Children’s Literature in South and North KoreaDafna Zur Part IV. Queer Studies, World Literature, the Digital HumanitiesSection I. Queer Reading and Affect Forms of Attachment: Ardent Female Intimacies in 1920s KoreaSamuel Perry The Poet and the Theater: Perverse Reading and Queer PoetryUngsan KimSection II. World Literature, Global Connections, the Digital Humanities World Literature, Korean Literature, and the Medical and Health HumanitiesKaren Thornber Global Korea and World LiteratureJenny Wang Medina The Text-Mining of Culture: The Case of a Popular Magazine in 1930s KoreaJae-Yon Lee and Hyun-Joo KimAppendix: A Comprehensive List of English Translations of Korean Literature Hyokyoung Yi

Heekyoung Cho is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature. Her articles discuss topics on translation and the creation of modern fiction, translation and censorship, serial publication, world literature, and webcomics. Her current research focuses on seriality in cultural production in both old and new media, including digital serialization and transmedial production, as well as graphic narratives and media platforms.

• Introduction—"Redefined and Challenged: Anthologizing Korean Literary Studies"Heekyoung ChoPart I. Premodern and Early Modern Korean LiteratureSection I. Manuscript Culture, Materiality, Performativity Manuscript, Not Print, in the Book World of Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910)Si Nae Park Performing Vernacular: Textual Practices as Bodily Events in Premodern KoreaHwisang ChoSection II. Print, Medium, Transregional Interactions Books for the Illiterate: the Haengsil-to (Illustrated Guide for Moral Deeds) of Chosŏn Korea Young Kyun Oh Print and Transnational Referentiality: Nam Kong-ch’ŏl’s Printing of Kŭmnŭng chip Suyoung SonSection III. Novel, Gender Dynamics, Transgression The Elite Vernacular Korean Culture of Chosŏn (1392-1910): Indeterminacy, Hybridity, StrangenessKsenia Chizhova Lovesickness and Death in Seventeenth-Century Korean LiteratureJanet Yoon-sun LeeSection IV. Language and Writing, Vernacular, Hybridity Idu in and as Korean LiteratureRoss King Hybrid Orthographies and the Emergence of Modern Literature in Early Twentieth-Century KoreaDaniel Pieper Part II. Modernity and the Colonial PeriodSection I. Gender and Sexuality Capital, Gender, and Modernity in Colonial Korean LiteratureKelly Y. Jeong Sexual Violence and Its Ideological Labor: Imagining Masculinist Equality and Androcentric Ethnos in Colonial Korean LiteratureJin-kyung LeeSection II. Translation and Crossing Incongruent Reflections: Translation and Bilingual Writings in Colonial KoreaYoon Jeong Oh The Japanese "Café France": Chŏng Chi-yong and Self-TranslationDavid Krolikoski Nonsense As Sensibility: The Importance of Not Being Earnest in Colonial Korea and TaiwanEvelyn Shih Section III. Modernity and Coloniality Language, Science, and the Status of Truth in Late Colonial KoreaChristopher P. Hanscom A Minor Modernist’s Conundrum of Representation: Kim Saryang and the Colonized I-NovelNayoung Aimee Kwon Rewriting the City: Yi Sang, Architecture, and the Figure of the Department StoreJina E. KimSection IV. Art and Politics A Forgotten Aesthetic: Reportage in Colonial Korea, 1920s–1930sSunyoung Park Literature (chŏnhyang sosŏl) and the Inward Gaze in the Late Colonial PeriodMi-Ryong Shim Part III. Liberation and Contemporary Korean LiteratureSection I. Decolonization, Cold War, Humanism Decolonizing Literature: Bridging Political Divides in the Post-Liberation PeriodJonathan Glade Vitalism and Existentialism in Early South Korean LiteratureJae Won Edward Chung Humanism as a Problem of Empire in Modern Korean Literature Travis Workman Section II. Politics, Memory, Orality Gender and Class Dynamics in the Utilitarian Discourse of the Developmental State and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South KoreaSerk-Bae Suh (Dis)embodiment of Memory: Gender, Memory, and Ethics in Human Acts by Han KangJi-Eun Lee Continuing Orality in Korean Poetry: Opening a P’an for the PageIvanna Sang Een YiSection III. Race, Diaspora, Intersectionality Ŏmma’s Baby, Appa’s Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of DiasporaJang Wook Huh Intersecting Korean DiasporasChristina Yi Whose Korea is it? Reading Zainichi Literature IntersectionallyCindi Textor Section IV. Division and North Korean Literature Closed Borders and Open Letters in the Cold War KoreasI Jonathan Kief A Good Wife is Hard to Find: North Korean Women in FictionImmanuel Kim Children’s Literature in South and North KoreaDafna Zur Part IV. Queer Studies, World Literature, the Digital HumanitiesSection I. Queer Reading and Affect Forms of Attachment: Ardent Female Intimacies in 1920s KoreaSamuel Perry The Poet and the Theater: Perverse Reading and Queer PoetryUngsan KimSection II. World Literature, Global Connections, the Digital Humanities World Literature, Korean Literature, and the Medical and Health HumanitiesKaren Thornber Global Korea and World LiteratureJenny Wang Medina The Text-Mining of Culture: The Case of a Popular Magazine in 1930s KoreaJae-Yon Lee and Hyun-Joo KimAppendix: A Comprehensive List of English Translations of Korean Literature Hyokyoung Yi

Heekyoung Cho is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature. Her articles discuss topics on translation and the creation of modern fiction, translation and censorship, serial publication, world literature, and webcomics. Her current research focuses on seriality in cultural production in both old and new media, including digital serialization and transmedial production, as well as graphic narratives and media platforms.

• Introduction—"Redefined and Challenged: Anthologizing Korean Literary Studies"Heekyoung ChoPart I. Premodern and Early Modern Korean LiteratureSection I. Manuscript Culture, Materiality, Performativity Manuscript, Not Print, in the Book World of Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910)Si Nae Park Performing Vernacular: Textual Practices as Bodily Events in Premodern KoreaHwisang ChoSection II. Print, Medium, Transregional Interactions Books for the Illiterate: the Haengsil-to (Illustrated Guide for Moral Deeds) of Chosŏn Korea Young Kyun Oh Print and Transnational Referentiality: Nam Kong-ch’ŏl’s Printing of Kŭmnŭng chip Suyoung SonSection III. Novel, Gender Dynamics, Transgression The Elite Vernacular Korean Culture of Chosŏn (1392-1910): Indeterminacy, Hybridity, StrangenessKsenia Chizhova Lovesickness and Death in Seventeenth-Century Korean LiteratureJanet Yoon-sun LeeSection IV. Language and Writing, Vernacular, Hybridity Idu in and as Korean LiteratureRoss King Hybrid Orthographies and the Emergence of Modern Literature in Early Twentieth-Century KoreaDaniel Pieper Part II. Modernity and the Colonial PeriodSection I. Gender and Sexuality Capital, Gender, and Modernity in Colonial Korean LiteratureKelly Y. Jeong Sexual Violence and Its Ideological Labor: Imagining Masculinist Equality and Androcentric Ethnos in Colonial Korean LiteratureJin-kyung LeeSection II. Translation and Crossing Incongruent Reflections: Translation and Bilingual Writings in Colonial KoreaYoon Jeong Oh The Japanese "Café France": Chŏng Chi-yong and Self-TranslationDavid Krolikoski Nonsense As Sensibility: The Importance of Not Being Earnest in Colonial Korea and TaiwanEvelyn Shih Section III. Modernity and Coloniality Language, Science, and the Status of Truth in Late Colonial KoreaChristopher P. Hanscom A Minor Modernist’s Conundrum of Representation: Kim Saryang and the Colonized I-NovelNayoung Aimee Kwon Rewriting the City: Yi Sang, Architecture, and the Figure of the Department StoreJina E. KimSection IV. Art and Politics A Forgotten Aesthetic: Reportage in Colonial Korea, 1920s–1930sSunyoung Park Literature (chŏnhyang sosŏl) and the Inward Gaze in the Late Colonial PeriodMi-Ryong Shim Part III. Liberation and Contemporary Korean LiteratureSection I. Decolonization, Cold War, Humanism Decolonizing Literature: Bridging Political Divides in the Post-Liberation PeriodJonathan Glade Vitalism and Existentialism in Early South Korean LiteratureJae Won Edward Chung Humanism as a Problem of Empire in Modern Korean Literature Travis Workman Section II. Politics, Memory, Orality Gender and Class Dynamics in the Utilitarian Discourse of the Developmental State and Literature in 1970s and 1980s South KoreaSerk-Bae Suh (Dis)embodiment of Memory: Gender, Memory, and Ethics in Human Acts by Han KangJi-Eun Lee Continuing Orality in Korean Poetry: Opening a P’an for the PageIvanna Sang Een YiSection III. Race, Diaspora, Intersectionality Ŏmma’s Baby, Appa’s Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of DiasporaJang Wook Huh Intersecting Korean DiasporasChristina Yi Whose Korea is it? Reading Zainichi Literature IntersectionallyCindi Textor Section IV. Division and North Korean Literature Closed Borders and Open Letters in the Cold War KoreasI Jonathan Kief A Good Wife is Hard to Find: North Korean Women in FictionImmanuel Kim Children’s Literature in South and North KoreaDafna Zur Part IV. Queer Studies, World Literature, the Digital HumanitiesSection I. Queer Reading and Affect Forms of Attachment: Ardent Female Intimacies in 1920s KoreaSamuel Perry The Poet and the Theater: Perverse Reading and Queer PoetryUngsan KimSection II. World Literature, Global Connections, the Digital Humanities World Literature, Korean Literature, and the Medical and Health HumanitiesKaren Thornber Global Korea and World LiteratureJenny Wang Medina The Text-Mining of Culture: The Case of a Popular Magazine in 1930s KoreaJae-Yon Lee and Hyun-Joo KimAppendix: A Comprehensive List of English Translations of Korean Literature Hyokyoung Yi