Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire

Book Overview

This volume brings together twelve short stories by colonial Korean proletarian writers, as well as two works written in 1946 under U.S. military occupation. The volume provides a diverse, ever-changing portrait of the complex movements of people and ideas that constituted both colonial Korea and the Japanese empire, adding the tumultuous experiences of those from the Korean peninsula to the existing international canon of socialist and feminist literature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933947675
• ISBN13: 9781933947679
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher