Lamentation as History: Narratives by Koreans in Japan, 1965-2000

by Melissa Wender

This book examines narratives by and about the Koreans in Japan from the mid-1960s through 2000. In so doing, it traces the emergence and evolution of a discourse of this group as a minority community within Japan. Koreans are the only significant postcolonial population to have been subjects of a non-Western empire, yet this is the first full-length study in English of their literature. While scholars have tended to treat literary and political developments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804750416
• ISBN13: 9780804750417
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 8.6"