The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women
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The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women by Ju-Chan Fulton
Stories by Korean women from the 1960s to 2000s illuminate the complex lives, psyches and struggles of women.
Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction, including the award-winning women's anthology Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers (Seal Press, 1989), and with Marshall R. Pihl, Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction, rev. and exp. ed. (M.E. Sharpe, 2007). Their most recent translations are River of Fire: Stories by O Chonghui (Columbia University Press, 2012) and How in Heaven's Name: A Novel of World War II by Cho Chongnae (MerwinAsia 2012). The Fultons have received several awards and fellowships for their translations, including a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, the first ever given for a translation from Korean; and a residency at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre, the first ever awarded to translators from any Asian language. Bruce Fulton is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. He is co-editor, with Youngmin Kwon, of Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2005) and editor of Waxen Wings: The Acta Koreana Anthology of Short Fiction From Korea (Koryo Press, 2011).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781938890178 |
| ISBN 10 | 1938890175 |
| Title | The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women |
| Author | Ju-Chan Fulton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Zephyr Press |
| Year published | 2016-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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