Violence and Trauma in Contemporary Korean Literature

Instructor: Emily Marie Anderson Hall at the UW

terms and themes

• Dissecting violence
  • Han - resentment of the oppressed
  • PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• History of Korea
  • Authoritarianism
    • Control, surveillance, and state violence in Korea
      • Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA)
      • State surveillance
  • Gwangju Democracy Movement
  • 1980s Korean Democracy Movement
• Themes in Korean Literature
• Bullying
• Comfort women
• National apologies and reparations
• Women’s roles and movements in Korean history
• Gender roles in Korea
• Religions in Korea

readings

• What is Violence?
• Land of Exile
• There a Petal Silently Falls
• Our Twisted Hero
• Grass
• The Vegetarian
• Hellbound