The subject guide page is created to support the special event on Friday October 25, 2024: "Celebrating Korean Writer Han Kang", sponsored by UCI's Center for Critical Korean Studies (CCKS). The Center also organized "Precariousness and Ethics of Care: Contemporary Korean Women’s Literature and Cinema", another event back on June 1, 2024, where Han Kang was a special guest in the Q/A session. Here is the recording.
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Godley, M. “The Feminization of Translation: Gender Politics in the Translation Controversy over Han, Kang’s The Vegetarian.” Meridians 20.1 (2021): 193–217. Available online
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Choi, Chungmoo. “Ghostly Apparitions and the Face.” Healing Historical Trauma in South Korean Film and Literature. 1st ed. vol. 1. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2021. 83–139. Available online
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“For her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life” - The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea in 1970. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. She made her literary debut as a poet by publishing five poems in 1993. She began her career as a novelist the next year by winning the 1994 Seoul Shinmun Spring Literary Contest with “Red Anchor”. She published her first short story collection entitled Yeosu in 1995.
In her oeuvre, Han Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life. She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose.
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