Spring 2013
EALC 532
University of Southern California
Proseminar: Korean Cultural History
Instructor: Sunyoung Park, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Class Hours:
Mon. 2-4:50 pm
Classroom: DML 110C
Office Hours:
Wed. 1-3 pm
Office: THH 378
TEL:
213-740-8256
Email: sunyoung.park@usc.edu
Course Description:
This course examines emerging trends and new methodologies within modern Korean literary
and cultural studies, while providing an in-depth introduction to the cultural history of Korea
during the twentieth century through the reading of primary texts. We will attend to the
multiple ways in which recent scholarship goes beyond previously entrenched nationalist and
ethnocentric approaches, and we will assess the increasingly influential readings of Korean
literature and culture within the new historical paradigm of global modernity. Our readings
will engage a range of issues and debates, including imperial hegemony and colonial
subjectivity, modernity and its competing aesthetics, cultural translation and hybrid identities,
history and memory in postcolonial nation-building, and the politics of fantasy subculture in
the age of global capitalism. This course fulfills the requirement for the Masters in East Asian
Area Studies offered by the East Asian Studies Center. The course materials will be both in
English, and the class is open to those with no prior knowledge of Korean.
Accommodation for Students with Disabilities:
Any student requesting academic accommodations based on a disability is required to register
with Disability Services and Programs (DSP) each semester. A letter of verification for
approved accommodations can be obtained from DSP. Please be sure the letter is delivered to
me or the TA as early in the semester as possible. DSP is located in STU 301 and is open 8:30
a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The phone number for DSP is (213) 740-0776.
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism:
University policies concerning academic dishonesty will be strictly enforced, and students are
responsible for familiarizing themselves with these policies. Plagiarism and/or cheating on
exams is subject to the sanctions set forth in the Student Conduct Code and may include
expulsion or suspension from the university. For a detailed description of plagiarism and other
types of academic dishonesty and the sanctions pertaining thereto, the student is referred to
Academic Integrity: A Guide for Graduate Students available at http://www.usc.edu/studentaffairs/student-conduct/grad_ai.htm.
Required Texts:
권보드래, 천정환. 1960 년을 묻다 (천년의 상상, 2012)
김윤식, 정호웅. 한국소설사. 개정증보판. (문학동네, 2000)
Park 2
대중서사쟝르연구회. 대중서사의 모든 것 1: 멜로드라마 (이론과 실천, 2007)
Theodore Huges, Literautere and Film in Cold War South Korea (Columbia
University, 2012)
In addition to the above, please purchase, or use the library copy of, all fulllength novels assigned from Week 8 through Week 15. You may choose to
read them either in Korean or in English (see the translated titles within
brackets).
For the rest of readings, they will be made available in time either in hard
copy or on the blackboard.
Requirements:
1. Class participation (10%)
2. Weekly response papers (10%): You are required to post a response paper
(1-2 pages) on the Blackboard course webpage by the midnight of the day
before the class. In this paper you are expected to outline the main theses
of readings with critical commentary and raise study questions for class
discussion. You are also strongly encouraged to read and respond to each
other’s postings.
3. In-class presentations (10%): You will take turns initiating the day’s
discussion by presenting your response to the readings.
4. Annotated Bibliography (10%): Each student will prepare a subjectoriented bibliography as a preparatory step for the final research paper by
April 11. The bibliography should include critical annotations on at least
five titles. For tips on how to write an annotated bibliography, you may
reference the guideline at the Writing Center website of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/annotated_bibliographies.html.
5. Final research paper (about 20 pages, 50%): You will choose your own
topic after consultation with the instructor. You are required to use primary
sources, literary or/and visual, for this research. Ideally, this paper will
become the basis of your MA thesis, Ph.D. dissertation chapter, or even a
publishable article. You will present the paper in class to receive peer
feedback before the final submission.
Syllabus
Week 1. 1/14 Introduction
Introduction to the class and organization meeting
Week 2. 1/21
No Class—Martin Luther King’s Birthday
Park 3
Week 3. 1/28 Origins of Modern Korean Literature
이광수, “문학이란 하오” [What Is Literature?]
염상섭, “만세전”[On the Eve of the Uprising]
Karatani Kojin, “Confession as a System” in Origins of Modern Japanese
Literature [E]
권보드래, 한국 근대 소설의 기원, 11-102
한국소설사, 1-114
Week 4. 2/4
Proletarian Internationalism vs. New Cosmopolitanism
송영, “용광로” [Blast Furnace]/ 강경애, “그 여자”
Sunyoung Park, The Proletarian Wave, Chapters 2~4
Bruce Robbins, “Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism”
한국소설사, 115-236
Week 5. 2/11 Modernisms
박태원, “소설가 구보씨의 일일” [One Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist]
채만식, “치숙” [My Innocent Uncle]
Miriam Silverberg, “Japanese Modern Times” in Erotic Grotesque Nonsense:
The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times, 13-47
Astradur Eyestensson, The Concept of Modernism, 8-49
한국소설사, 237-287
Week 6. 2/18
No Class—President’s Day
Week 7. 2/25 Overcoming Modernity in the Greater East Asian War
김동리, “무녀도” [The Shaman Painting]/ 김남천, “맥” [Barley]
Takeuchi Yoshimi, “Overcoming Modernity” in What Is Modernity? 103-148
Sunyoung Park, “Everyday Life as Critique: Kim Namch’on’s Literary
Experiments 1934-1943”
Serk-Bae Suh, “The Location of ‘Korean’ Culture: Ch’ae Chaesŏ and Korean
Literature in a Time of Transition”
Week 8. 3/4
Culture in the Liberation Space
염상섭, 효풍
Theodore Hughes, “Visible and Invisible States: Liberation, Occupation,
Division” in Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea, 61-90
Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature, 108-144
한국 소설사, 289-346
Week 9. 3/11 Postwar Youth Culture
Park 4
최인훈, 광장[The Square]
권보드래 & 천정환, 1960 년을 묻다. 65-110 and 173-375
Theodore Hughes, Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea, 91-204
Fredric Jameson, “Periodizing the 60s”
한국 소설사, 347-420
Week 10. 3/18
No Class—Spring Recess
Week 11. 3/25
Utopian and Fantastic Imagination
under Developmental Dictatorship
조세희, 난장이가 쏘아올린 작은 공 [The Dwarf]
China Miéville, “Marxism and Fantasy: An Introduction”
김소영, 근대성의 유령들.
Week 12. 4/1 The Minjung Cultural Movement
이문열, 사람의 아들.
Kenneth M. Wells, South Korea's Minjung Movement, 87-118, 167-178
한국 소설사, 421-518.
Film: Im Kwont’aek, T’aebaek sanmaek (1988)
Week 13. 4/8 Melodrama and Modernity
신경숙, 엄마를 부탁해 [Please Look after Mom]
Peter Brooks, The Melodramatic Imagination, xiii-23
대중서사학회. 대중서사쟝르의 모든 것 1. 멜로드라마
Week 14. 4/15
The Postmodern Moment
Kim Youngha, 나는 나를 파괴할 권리가 있다 [I Have the Right to Destroy
Myself]
Jean-François Lyotard, “Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?”
Brian McHale, “From Modernist to Postmodernist Fiction: Change of the
Dominant,” in Postmodernist Fiction, 3-11
Jean Baudrillard, “The Precession of Simulacra,” in Simulacra and Simulation,
1-43.
Film: Hong Sangsu, The Day a Pig fell into a Well (1996)
Week 15. 4/22
Post-IMF Surrealism
박민규, 카스테라
Andre Breton, “Manifestoes of Surrealism”
Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto Science, Technology, and SocialistFeminism in the Late Twentieth Century."
Park 5
John Clarke, Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson, and Brian Roberts, “Subcultures,
Cultures, and Class.”
Martin Roberts, “Notes on the Global Underground: Subcultures and
Globalization.”
Week 16. 4/28 Student Presentations