Peace Under Heaven A Modern Korean Novel

Author : Man-Sik Chae
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317463129
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace Under Heaven: A Modern Korean Novel written by Man-Sik Chae and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Seoul in 1938, soon after the outbreak of the Pacific War, "Peace Under Heaven" is a satirical novel centering on the household of a Korean landlord during the Japanese colonial occupation. Master Yun, embodying the traditional ambitions of a standard Korean paterfamilias, by being projected fast forward into a modern urban environment, caricatures the increasing irrelevance of Confucian mores to 20th-century social reality. Depicting the anomic lives of the Yun household in colonial Seoul, Chase Man-Sik, one of modern Korea's best-known writers, uses black comedy to underscore the collapse of ritualistic traditional values in the face of capitalist modernisation. The decadence of the nouveau riche pseudo-aristocrat Master Yun is interwoven with insights into the customary bases of oppression of Korean women into the self-deceptions underlying collaboration by Koreans with the Japanese oppressor. The savage hilarity of Chae's style lends force and historical relevance to his insight into the attitudes of the milieu in which his narrative is set.

Author : Leon Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317460995
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Requiem for New Orleans written by Leon Sharpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Requiem for New Orleans" is a lament for the destruction of a great city and scorn for those who allowed it to happen. Mike Sharpe writes: "New Orleans was not destroyed by a hurricane but by abandonment." Above all, "Requiem for New Orleans" is a meditation on our ability to overcome loss. It is an interweaving of biblical cadences, black idiom, standard American speech, jazz, and the caustic side of protest music. The author leaves us with a question: when will we learn what we must from the fate of New Orleans?

Author : Michael Sollars
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438108362
Total Pages : 957 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel written by Michael Sollars and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 358 pages
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Total Pages : 678 pages
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Author : Takarabe Toriko
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824876385
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heaven and Hell written by Takarabe Toriko and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takarabe Toriko’s autobiographical novel Heaven and Hell is a beautiful, chilling account of her childhood in Manchukuo, the puppet state established by the Japanese in northeast China in 1932. As seen through the eyes of a precocious young girl named Masuko, the frontier town of Jiamusi and its inhabitants are by turns enchanting, bemusing, and horrifying. Takarabe skillfully captures Masuko’s voice with language that savors Manchukuo’s lush forests and vast terrain, but violence and murder are ever present, as much a part of the scenery as the grand Sungari River. Masuko recounts the “Heaven” of her early life in Jiamusi, a place so cold in winter her joints freeze as she walks to school. She accepts this world, with its gentle ways and terrible brutality, because it is the only home she has known. Masuko feels at ease wandering among the street vendors hawking their hot and sticky steamed cakes or watching the cook slaughter ducks for dinner, and takes pleasure in following the routines of her Chinese, Russian, and Japanese neighbors. Her world is shattered in 1945, when she and her family must flee their adopted home and struggle, along with other Japanese settlers, to return to Japan. This second half of the book, the “Hell” of refugee life, is heartbreaking and disturbing, yet described with ferocious honesty.

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Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 1342 pages
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Total Pages : 666 pages
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Total Pages : 2010 pages
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