Kimberly Chung is Assistant Professor of Korean Literary and Cultural Studies at McGill University.

"The Sensational Proletarian offers an original and methodologically innovative analysis of colonial Korean proletarian culture. Chung presents an insightful and important case study of the complex relationship between politics and aesthetics, advancing new frontiers of affect studies. It is essential reading for those interested in Korean cultural history and global leftist cultures."—Sunyoung Park, University of Southern California "This engaging study examines how sensational representations of the proletarian body in 1920s-30s Korean print culture under Japanese colonialism made unique uses of affect, emotion, and visceral feelings to popularize leftist thought and class politics. Kimberly Chung presents astute, original readings of sensation, horror, and spectrality in literature, journalism, visual culture, and in the Marxist tradition itself."—Lisa Lowe, Yale University "The Sensational Proletarian casts new light on colonial Korea's influential proletarian cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Underscoring the importance of sensation and the sensational to the popularization of the proletarian body, Kimberly Chung shows how affective excess travels across multiple forms of print culture to offer new ways of imagining revolutionary futures. Chung's groundbreaking work on the visualization, folklorization, and gendering of class is a must-read for those interested in colonial proletarian culture and its affective and sensational K-afterlives, which have now found a global audience."—Theodore Hughes, Columbia University

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Names, Romanization, and TranslationsIntroduction1. Narrating Sensations of Class in New Tendency Literature2. Visualizing the Proletarian Body in Print Culture3. The Affective Worlding of Marxism through the Starving Ghost4. Feminizing the Sensational ProletarianEpilogue: The Specter of SensationalismNotesBibliographyIndex

Kimberly Chung is Assistant Professor of Korean Literary and Cultural Studies at McGill University.

"The Sensational Proletarian offers an original and methodologically innovative analysis of colonial Korean proletarian culture. Chung presents an insightful and important case study of the complex relationship between politics and aesthetics, advancing new frontiers of affect studies. It is essential reading for those interested in Korean cultural history and global leftist cultures."—Sunyoung Park, University of Southern California "This engaging study examines how sensational representations of the proletarian body in 1920s-30s Korean print culture under Japanese colonialism made unique uses of affect, emotion, and visceral feelings to popularize leftist thought and class politics. Kimberly Chung presents astute, original readings of sensation, horror, and spectrality in literature, journalism, visual culture, and in the Marxist tradition itself."—Lisa Lowe, Yale University "The Sensational Proletarian casts new light on colonial Korea's influential proletarian cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Underscoring the importance of sensation and the sensational to the popularization of the proletarian body, Kimberly Chung shows how affective excess travels across multiple forms of print culture to offer new ways of imagining revolutionary futures. Chung's groundbreaking work on the visualization, folklorization, and gendering of class is a must-read for those interested in colonial proletarian culture and its affective and sensational K-afterlives, which have now found a global audience."—Theodore Hughes, Columbia University

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Names, Romanization, and TranslationsIntroduction1. Narrating Sensations of Class in New Tendency Literature2. Visualizing the Proletarian Body in Print Culture3. The Affective Worlding of Marxism through the Starving Ghost4. Feminizing the Sensational ProletarianEpilogue: The Specter of SensationalismNotesBibliographyIndex

Kimberly Chung is Assistant Professor of Korean Literary and Cultural Studies at McGill University.

"The Sensational Proletarian offers an original and methodologically innovative analysis of colonial Korean proletarian culture. Chung presents an insightful and important case study of the complex relationship between politics and aesthetics, advancing new frontiers of affect studies. It is essential reading for those interested in Korean cultural history and global leftist cultures."—Sunyoung Park, University of Southern California "This engaging study examines how sensational representations of the proletarian body in 1920s-30s Korean print culture under Japanese colonialism made unique uses of affect, emotion, and visceral feelings to popularize leftist thought and class politics. Kimberly Chung presents astute, original readings of sensation, horror, and spectrality in literature, journalism, visual culture, and in the Marxist tradition itself."—Lisa Lowe, Yale University "The Sensational Proletarian casts new light on colonial Korea's influential proletarian cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Underscoring the importance of sensation and the sensational to the popularization of the proletarian body, Kimberly Chung shows how affective excess travels across multiple forms of print culture to offer new ways of imagining revolutionary futures. Chung's groundbreaking work on the visualization, folklorization, and gendering of class is a must-read for those interested in colonial proletarian culture and its affective and sensational K-afterlives, which have now found a global audience."—Theodore Hughes, Columbia University

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Names, Romanization, and TranslationsIntroduction1. Narrating Sensations of Class in New Tendency Literature2. Visualizing the Proletarian Body in Print Culture3. The Affective Worlding of Marxism through the Starving Ghost4. Feminizing the Sensational ProletarianEpilogue: The Specter of SensationalismNotesBibliographyIndex