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  • Friend

    A Novel from North Korea

    Traducido por Immanuel Kim ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into a broader consideration of love and marriage. The novel delves into its protagonists’ past, describing how the couple first fell in love and then ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Hidden Heroes

    Anthology of North Korean Fiction

    Hidden Heroes offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the lives of ordinary North Koreans through a collection of short stories by renowned DPRK authors. Spanning from the 1980s to the present, these works explore the theme of the “hidden hero,” a popular moniker in the DPRK to describe the average citizen who navigates the complexities of daily life with quiet dedication for their work and ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of North Korean Cinema

    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    This first handbook on North Korean cinema contests the assumption that North Korean film is “unwatchable,” in terms of both quality and accessibility, refusing to reduce North Korean cinema to political propaganda and focusing on its aesthetic forms and cultural meanings.Since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) has played diverse roles: a Cold War ... Leer más

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  • Friend

    A Novel from North Korea

    Traducido por Immanuel Kim ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into a broader consideration of love and marriage. The novel delves into its protagonists’ past, describing how the couple first fell in love and then ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Laughing North Koreans

    The Culture of Comedy Films

    de Immanuel Kim ...
    This study analyzes North Korean comedy films from the late 1960s to present day. It examines the most iconic comedy films and comedians to show how North Koreans have enjoyed themselves and have established a culture of humor that challenges, subverts, and, at times, reinforces the dominant political ideology. The author argues that comedy films, popular comedians, and the viewers have an ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Rewriting Revolution

    Women, Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction

    de Immanuel Kim ...
    North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is firmly fixed in the Western imagination as a barbaric vestige of the Cold War, a “rogue” nation that refuses to abide by international norms. It is seen as belligerent and oppressive, a poor nation bent on depriving its citizens of their basic human rights and expanding its nuclear weapons program at the expense of a faltering ... Leer más

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  • Illusive Utopia

    Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea

    de Suk-Young Kim ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
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  • The Fat Years

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    Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister ... Leer más

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  • The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

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    The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Leer más

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  • River Town

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  • East Asian Cinema

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