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 Representations of Femininity in Contemporary South Korean Women's Literature

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-x)   (91K)
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    • Table Of Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Language Note
  • Introduction: Fictions About Women (1-12)   (80K)
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    • Critical Intersections
    • The Scope Of This Book
  • Iconic Femininities (13-32)   (226K)
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    • The Philosophical Origins Of Conceptualizing Femininity In Korea
    • Virtuous Femininity
    • Self And Other In Korea
    • Enduring Myths About The Feminine
  • Korean Women’s Literature And Representations Of Femininity (33-64)   (260K)
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    • Early Modern Women Writers
    • The Discourse Of Femininity In Post-War Literature
    • Nation As A Community Of Men
    • Women Writers Of The 1990s
    • UN Huigyong
    • Chon Kyongnin
    • Ha Songnan
    • Narrating The Feminine Subject
    • Critical Reception Of The 1990s Women's Fiction
  • Domestic Femininity (65-97)   (255K)
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    • Romanticized Housewives
    • The Domestic Within The Contemporary Symbolic
    • The Inauthenticity Of Domestic Femininity
    • Rewriting The Domestic Plot
    • Femininity As A Function Of The Domestic
    • Domesticity As Confinement
    • Rethinking Contemporary Domestic Femininity
  • The Maternal Feminine And Female Genealogies (98-133)   (269K)
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    • Mother-Daughter Relationships
    • Un-Motherly Mothers
    • Collective 'Motherlessness'
    • Subverting The Maternal Myth
    • Beyond The Sacrificial Maternal Feminine
  • Female Sexuality (134-164)   (241K)
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    • Passive Commodities
    • Passive Bodies
    • Objects Of Desire
    • Active Sexualities
    • Reimagining Female Sexualities?
  • Contesting The Symbolic: The Feminine In The Fantastic (165-194)   (238K)
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    • Mirror Realities
    • The Feminine Excess
    • The Poetics Of Death
    • The Open-Ended Feminine
  • Beyond Representations (195-203)   (62K)
  • Bibliography (204-216)   (187K)
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    • Additional Language Note:
    • Primary Sources
    • Secondary Sources
  • Index (217-222)   (158K)