The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myŏng-Sun

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The Life and Works of Korean Poet Kim Myŏng-Sun is written by Jung Ja Choi and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1032365935 (ISBN 10) and 9781032365930 (ISBN 13).

This volume is the first comprehensive analysis in English of the three most important yet long-neglected women poets of twentieth-century Korea. Kim Myŏng-sun (1896-ca. 1951) was the first modern woman poet in Korea; Ko Chŏng-hŭi (1948-1991) was the first self-proclaimed feminist poet; and Kim Sŭng-hŭi (1952-) is recognized as one of Korea's first female poet-scholar-critics. Each of these poets availed herself of the power of lyric poetry to celebrate female sexuality, decry violence against women, and honor the marginalized. This book introduces their feminist visions as active chroniclers of public memory and vital participants in national and global politics and literature. By bringing these three poets before the English-reading public, this volume sheds light on the complexity of women's lives in Korea and contributes to the growing interest in modern Korean women's literature in the West.