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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Figuring Korean Futures
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea \nApril 26 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library \nSpeaker: Dafna Zur\, Stanford University\nModerator: Steven Lee\, UC Berkeley \nFiguring Korean Futures is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s\, a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a child-reader. This child audience was perceived as unique because of a new concept: the child-heart\, the perception that the child’s body and mind were transparent and knowable\, and that they rested on the threshold of culture. This privileged location enabled writers and illustrators\, educators and psychologists\, intellectual elite and laypersons to envision the child as a powerful antidote to the present and as an uplifting metaphor of colonial Korea’s future. \nReading children’s periodicals against the political\, educational\, and psychological discourses of their time\, Dafna Zur argues that the figure of the child was particularly favorable to the project of modernity and nation-building\, as well as to the colonial and postcolonial projects of socialization and nationalization. She demonstrates the ways in which Korean children’s literature builds on a trajectory that begins with the child as an organic part of nature\, and ends\, in the post-colonial era\, with the child as the primary agent of control of nature. Figuring Korean Futures reveals the complex ways in which the figure of the child became a driving force of nostalgia that stood in for future aspirations for the individual\, family\, class\, and nation. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nDafna Zur is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She teaches courses on Korean literature\, popular culture\, cinema\, and popular culture. Her book\, Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea (Stanford University Press\, 2017)\, traces the affective investments and coded aspirations made possible by children’s literature in colonial and postcolonial Korea. She has published articles on North Korean science fiction\, the Korean War in North and South Korean children’s literature\, childhood in cinema\, and Korean popular culture. Her translations have been published in wordwithoutborders.org\, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Short Stories\, and the Asia Literary Review. \nDafna Zur received her PhD and MA in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia\, and a BA from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Yang Huang
DESCRIPTION:Yang Huang reads from her short story collection\, My Old Faithful\, winner of the 2017 Juniper Prize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShowing both the drama of familial intimacy and the ups and downs of the everyday\, My Old Faithful introduces readers to a close-knit Chinese family. These ten interconnected short stories\, which take place in China and the United States over a thirty-year period\, merge to paint a nuanced portrait of family life\, full of pain\, surprises\, and subtle acts of courage. Richly textured narratives from the mother\, the father\, the son\, and the daughters play out against the backdrop of China’s social and economic change. \nWith quiet humor and sharp insight into the ordinary\, Yang Huang writes of a father who spanks his son out of love\, a brother who betrays his sister\, and a woman who returns to China after many years to find her country changed in ways both expected and startling. \nYang Huang grew up in China’s Jiangsu province and participated in the 1989 student uprisings. Her debut novel\, Living Treasures\, won the Nautilus Book Award silver medal in fiction\, and her essay and short stories have appeared in The Margins\, Eleven Eleven\, Asian Pacific American Journal\, The Evansville Review\, Futures\, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine\, and Nuvein. She lives in the Bay Area and works for UC Berkeley.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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