The Proletarian Wave: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945

by Sunyoung Park

Socialist doctrines had an important influence on Korean writers and intellectuals of the early twentieth century. From the 1910s through the 1940s, a veritable wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist groups swept the cultural scene with differing agendas as well as shared demands for equality and social justice. In The Proletarian Wave, Sunyoung Park reconstructs the complex mosaic of colonial leftist culture by focusing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674417178
• ISBN13: 9780674417175
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"