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- Title
WINGS AND WIGGLES: FOUR INTERTEXTUAL KOREAN STORIES.
- Authors
Fulton, Bruce
- Abstract
In this essay I discuss two canonical modern Korean fictional works, Yi Sang's "Nalgae" (1936) and Kim Sŭngok's "Sŏul, 1964-nyŏn kyŏul" (1965), and a recent parody of each--Kim Sŏkhŭi's "Yi Sang ui nalgae" (1988) and Chŏn Chinu's "Sŏul, 1986-nyŏn yŏrŭm" (1987). The two source works continue to reverberate in Korea today. "Nalgae" and its creator are icons both in and increasingly outside of Korea and the story is a pivot between Korean tradition and Korean modernity, taking as its central image the wings that symbolically inform one of the best-known Korean folktales--"Namukkun kwa sŏnnyŏ." Kim Sŭngok's stories for their part are inextricably connected with the 1960s; they are atmospheric portraits of the malaise of a society struggling to find itself after the 1950-53 civil war, the April 1960 student revolution, and the May 1961 military coup. In all four works--the source texts and their retellings--the theme of confinement is trenchant.
- Subjects
KOREAN fiction; PARODY in literature; KOREAN folk literature; IMPRISONMENT in literature; WAR &; society
- Publication
Acta Koreana, 2005, Vol 8, Issue 2, p65
- ISSN
1520-7412
- Publication type
Article