Lamentation As History by Melissa L. Wender - 9780804750400

Name: Lamentation As History by Melissa L. Wender - 9780804750400
Brand: Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press

Lamentation As HistoryNarratives by Koreans in Japan, 1965-2000\nAuthor(s): Melissa L. Wender\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804750400, 978-0804750400\nSynopsis\nThis 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 as separate historical processes, this book proposes that the two are inextricably interwoven, and that only by examining them together will we be able adequately to understand identity, a concept so fraught and yet so essential to modern individualswhether members of a minority or .