Part 1: The Power of Literature / The Literature of Power 1. Art as Freedom and Power: Kim Tongin and the Political Legacy of "Pure Literature" in Modern Korea, Jin-Kyung Lee 2. Proletarian Reality and Leftist Literature of 1920s and 1930s Colonial Korea, Kimberly Chung 3. The Colonial Frontier: Primitive Accumulation, Migration, and Settler Colonialism in Kando Literature, Travis Workman 4. Decolonizing the Future: Postcolonial Themes in South Korean Science Fiction, Sunyoung Park 5. The Mad Father in the Attic: Torture and the Ethics of Accountability in Post-Authoritarian Korean Fiction, Youngju Ryu Part 2: Crossing Borders, Redrawing Boundaries 6. In the Shadow of Nation and Empire: Northwestern Writers in Colonial Seoul, Ellie Choi 7. Border Crossings between Decolonization and the Cold War: Rethinking Postliberation Literature, 1945-1950, Ji Young Kim 8.

Fracturing Literary Boundaries: Connecting with the Korean Peninsula in Postwar Japan, Jonathan Glade 9. Crossing the Great Divide: Mid-Century Modernism on the Korean Peninsula, Janet Poole 10. Division Literature and Visions for De-Bordering: Ch'oe Inhun, Pak Wanso, and Individuals without Belonging, We Jung Yi 11. South Korean Activist Readers of North Korean Literature, Immanuel J. Kim Part 3: Rationality in Literature and its Limits: Scientists, Detectives, and Doctors 12. Literary Negotiations with Western Science in Post-Confucian Korea, Jongyon Hwang 13. The Development of Detective Fiction in Colonial Korea, Jooyeon Rhee 14. Curing, But Not Healing, in Pak Wanso's "During Three Days of that Autumn," Karen Thornber Part 4: Transnational Archives: Language, Ethnicity, and Translation 15.

The Figure of the Translator: Kim Saryang Between Korean and Japanese Literatures, Nayoung Aimee Kwon 16. Zainichi Writers and the Postcoloniality of Modern Korean Literature, Cindi Textor 17. Interracial Romance, Unlawful Marriage: Transpacific Encounters in Early Korean-American Literature, Yoon Sun Yang 18. Autobiography of Others: Dictée 's Counter-Hegemonic Feminism, Kelly Y. Jeong Part 5: Korean Literature in the Changing Mediascape: Radio, Television, and Print Culture 19. The Sonic Unconscious and the Wartime Radio Novel in Colonial Korea, Jina Kim 20. Make Noise, Not War: Television in Yusin-Era Literature, Evelyn Shih 21. Radicalizing Against Polarities: Poetry and Print Culture in the 1980's Literary Topography, Susan Hwang.