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Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan by Nayoung Aimee Kwon, and: Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film by Bert Mittchell Scruggs (review)

Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan by Nayoung Aimee Kwon,... Book Reviews 245 offering some thoughtful insights into the psyche of emigrants for the broader public. PETER MOLONEY Boston College Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan.By NAYOUNG AIMEE KWON. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. 277 pp. $94.95 (hardcover); $25.95 (paper). Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film.By BERT MITTCHELL SCRUGGS. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. 216 pp. $65.00 (hardcover). It is by now commonplace to assert that national literary canons took shape in the context of colonialism and its afterlives. Colonial landscapes provided rich terrain for metropolitan authors; novelists dissected, sometimes obliquely, the themes of racial and class difference that the circulation of people between metropole and colony brought to the fore; and tropes of colonial space—“the Frontier,”“the Orient,” and “the Tropics”—set the frame for what we now regard as major works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. In Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan and Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film, Nayoung Aimee Kwon and Bert Mittchell Scruggs take us to the oft-neglected other half of this relationship. Exploring the experiences of colonized writers in the colonial era and their troubled canonization in the postcolonial http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan by Nayoung Aimee Kwon, and: Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film by Bert Mittchell Scruggs (review)

McDonald, Kate
Journal of World History , Volume 29 (2) – Aug 21, 2018
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Book Reviews 245 offering some thoughtful insights into the psyche of emigrants for the broader public. PETER MOLONEY Boston College Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan.By NAYOUNG AIMEE KWON. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. 277 pp. $94.95 (hardcover); $25.95 (paper). Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film.By BERT MITTCHELL SCRUGGS. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. 216 pp. $65.00 (hardcover). It is by now commonplace to assert that national literary canons took shape in the context of colonialism and its afterlives. Colonial landscapes provided rich terrain for metropolitan authors; novelists dissected, sometimes obliquely, the themes of racial and class difference that the circulation of people between metropole and colony brought to the fore; and tropes of colonial space—“the Frontier,”“the Orient,” and “the Tropics”—set the frame for what we now regard as major works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. In Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan and Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film, Nayoung Aimee Kwon and Bert Mittchell Scruggs take us to the oft-neglected other half of this relationship. Exploring the experiences of colonized writers in the colonial era and their troubled canonization in the postcolonial

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Published: Aug 21, 2018

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