Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature

Abstract

in multiple and divided national and ethnonational literary fields in the region; a postcolonial and post–Cold War remapping of his life and works as a case study may open a window into illuminating how certain historical figures are remembered and forgotten in different contexts in the divided postcolonial and post–Cold War afterlives in the Asia-Pacific. As an exploration into these larger concerns, this chapter considers the significance of the forgotten figure of the translator that repeatedly haunted Kim’s oeuvre.