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- Title
THREAT TO THE FAMILY REVOLUTION IN NORTH KOREA: READING THE INDIVIDUAL IN PAEK NAMRYONG'S FRIEND.
- Authors
Kim, Immanuel
- Abstract
According to some North Korean defectors, Paek Namryong's Pŏt (friend) caused a sensation among the North Korean readers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This is not only because of the novelg" of bringing a sensitive issue of divorce into the narrative, but also because Paek creatively depicts the rave human nature and emotions through the characters. While the narrative attempts to maintain the harmony of the nuclear family as the Party desires, Paek leaves his readers in the chaotic world of unresolved marital problems. Paek Namryong's Pŏt is one of the few novels m contemporary North Korean literature that aUows the readers m sympathize with the so-called "internal enemy of the state," who is an individual with a higher obligation to herself rather than to the state.
- Subjects
KOREA; PAEK Namryong; DIVORCE in literature; EMOTIONS; KOREAN literature
- Publication
Acta Koreana, 2011, Vol 14, Issue 2, p225
- ISSN
1520-7412
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18399/acta.2011.14.2.010