Knife Song Korea

Author : Richard Selzer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438427720

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Knife Song Korea by Richard Selzer Pdf

Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction & Literature: Literary Fiction category of the "Best Books 2010" Awards sponsored by USA Book News 2009 Editor's Choice Award for Fiction presented by Foreword Magazine Knife Song Korea chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of Sloane, a young surgeon in the Korean War. Drafted into the army and assigned to an artillery unit in a remote rural area on the edges of the war, Sloane must cope with harsh living conditions, a brutal workload, and intense feelings of personal isolation. The only doctor for miles, he is called upon to treat not only U.S. military personnel but also the local Korean population, for whom he feels both revulsion and pity. As the strain mounts and the war moves closer, he comes face to face with questions of identity, nationality, and personal honor. Originally written during and shortly after Richard Selzer's own tour of duty in Korea, Knife Song Korea offers a poetic portrayal of a man stretched to his limits and beyond, and the tragic toll war takes on the human psyche.

Author : Kevin Kerrane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611496437

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A Richard Selzer Reader by Kevin Kerrane Pdf

In the 1960s, while practicing as a general surgeon and teaching surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, Richard Selzer began publishing unique creative work in magazines such as Harper’s and Esquire. This volume is a definitive collection of essays, stories, public lectures, and final diary entries by the renowned surgeon and imaginative writer. Each of the book’s nine topical sections is prefaced by an overview of themes and patterns in Selzer’s work.

Author : Richard Selzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300163094

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Diary by Richard Selzer Pdf

Picking up roughly where the memoir "Down from Troy" leaves off, as Selzer's writing life flourishes and his surgical career ends, "Diary" brings together stories and observations dashed off on park benches and in library carrels over the past decade.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Des Moines University
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Abaton - Issue Four by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Selzer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438427201

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Letters to a Best Friend by Richard Selzer Pdf

A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.

Author : Jeanne Winston Adler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438435497

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The Affair of the Veiled Murderess by Jeanne Winston Adler Pdf

Troy, New York, 1853. Two Irish immigrants—a man and a woman—die shortly after drinking beer poured by a neighbor. Was it poisoned? And if so, was their slayer the beautiful mistress of an important Democratic politician? Many Trojans soon answer yes to both questions, but others question the guilt of the glamorous accused. Rumored to be the once-respectable Miss Charlotte Wood, a former student at Emma Willard's elite Troy Female Seminary and the runaway wife of a British lord, her identity remains in doubt, and the air of mystery is only heightened by her decision to remain hidden behind a veil during her trial, which earns her the nickname "The Veiled Murderess." As the affair widens to include the antebellum social and political worlds of Troy and Albany, the blossoming scandal threatens important people on both sides of the Atlantic. Drawing on newspapers, court documents, and other records of the time, Jeanne Winston Adler attempts to come to an understanding of the truth behind the strange affair of the veiled murderess. In the process, she addresses a number of topics important to our understanding of nineteenth-century life in New York State, including the changing roles of women, the marginal position of the Irish, and the contentious political firmament of the time.

Author : Miho Choo,William O’Grady
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0824818156

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Handbook of Korean Vocabulary by Miho Choo,William O’Grady Pdf

Vocabulary learning is the single most important component of second-language acquisition. In cases where the second language is unrelated to the learner's native tongue, this task presents special challenges because there are typically few clues in a word's form to assist in learning and remembering its meaning. This book offers a solution to this problem for students of Korean. The Handbook is the first ever "root dictionary" of Korean designed for second-language learners. Useful for students at all levels, it contains more than 1,500 vocabulary lists consisting of words built from a shared root. These lists offer a unique and efficient way for students to acquire new words. Upon encountering a word, students can consult the lists for its component roots and discover many other semantically related words built from the same elements. An introduction provides an overview of Korean vocabulary and detailed instructions on how to use the word lists. A pronunciation guide outlines the major principles determining the pronunciation of compounds and other multipart words in Korean.

Author : Brooke McCorkle Okazaki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501347962

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Shonen Knife’s Happy Hour by Brooke McCorkle Okazaki Pdf

Shonen Knife-an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan-cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Their 1998 album Happy Hour, filled with tunes about delicacies ranging from sushi to banana chips, encapsulates the band's charming fusion of cuteness with punk rock cool. Tracing histories of food and josei rock in Japan, McCorkle Okazaki outlines the ways Shonen Knife has, over the last forty years, consistently used seemingly straightforward songs about food to comment on gender stereotypes in popular culture.

Author : Eric Kim
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780593233498

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Korean American by Eric Kim Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • An homage to what it means to be Korean American with delectable recipes that explore how new culinary traditions can be forged to honor both your past and your present. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ART OF EATING PRIZE • IACP AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Bon Appétit, The Boston Globe, Saveur, NPR, Food & Wine, Salon, Vice, Epicurious, Publishers Weekly, Simply Recipes “This is such an important book: an enquiry into identity, and a rich repository of memories and deliciousness.”—Nigella Lawson, author of Cook, Eat, Repeat New York Times staff writer Eric Kim grew up in Atlanta, the son of two Korean immigrants. Food has always been central to his story, from Friday-night Korean barbecue with his family to hybridized Korean-ish meals for one—like Gochujang-Buttered Radish Toast and Caramelized-Kimchi Baked Potatoes—that he makes in his tiny New York City apartment. In his debut cookbook, Eric shares these recipes alongside insightful, touching stories and stunning images shot by photographer Jenny Huang. Playful, poignant, and vulnerable, Korean American also includes essays on subjects ranging from the life-changing act of leaving home and returning as an adult, to what Thanksgiving means to a first-generation family, complete with a full holiday menu—all the while teaching readers about the Korean pantry, the history of Korean cooking in America, and the importance of white rice in Korean cuisine. Recipes like Gochugaru Shrimp and Grits, Salt-and-Pepper Pork Chops with Vinegared Scallions, and Smashed Potatoes with Roasted-Seaweed Sour Cream Dip demonstrate Eric's prowess at introducing Korean pantry essentials to comforting American classics, while dishes such as Cheeseburger Kimbap and Crispy Lemon-Pepper Bulgogi with Quick-Pickled Shallots do the opposite by tinging traditional Korean favorites with beloved American flavor profiles. Baked goods like Milk Bread with Maple Syrup and Gochujang Chocolate Lava Cakes close out the narrative on a sweet note. In this book of recipes and thoughtful insights, especially about his mother, Jean, Eric divulges not only what it means to be Korean American but how, through food and cooking, he found acceptance, strength, and the confidence to own his story.

Author : Seok-Kyeong Hong,Dal Yong Jin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000351330

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Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture by Seok-Kyeong Hong,Dal Yong Jin Pdf

This book observes and analyzes transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices, comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture. Drawing on innovative theoretical perspectives and grounded empirical research, an international team of authors consider the history of transnational flows within pop culture and then systematically address pop culture,digital technologies, and the media industry. Chapters cover the Hallyu—or Korean Wave—phenomenon, as well as Japanese and Chinese cultural industries. Throughout the book, the authors address the convergence of the once-separated practical, industrial, and business aspects of popular culture under the influence of digital culture. They further coherently synthesize a vast collection of research to examine the specific realities and practices of consumers that exist beyond regional boundaries, shared cultural identities, and historical constructs. This book will be of interest to academic researchers, undergraduates, and graduate students of Asian media, media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, transcultural communication, or sociology.

Author : Kyung Hyun Kim
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0822332671

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The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema by Kyung Hyun Kim Pdf

DIVArgues that although the last two decades of Korean history were a period of progress in political democratization, the country refused to part from a "masculine point of view" which is also mirrored in Korean cinema./div

Author : Nathan Carlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000474862

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Contemporary Physician-Authors by Nathan Carlin Pdf

This book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write--the stories that they tell--with contributors critically engaging their work. A selection of original chapters from leading scholars in medical and health humanities analyze the literary output of doctors, including Oliver Sacks, Danielle Ofri, Atul Gawande, Louise Aronson, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Abraham Verghese. Discussing issues of moral meaning in the works of contemporary doctor-writers, from memoir to poetry, this collection reflects some of the diversity of medicine today. A key reference for all students and scholars of medical and health humanities, the book will be especially useful for those interested in the relationship between literature and practising medicine.

Author : Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429013003

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Zainichi Korean Women in Japan by Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka Pdf

Presenting the voices of a unique group within contemporary Japanese society—Zainichi women—this book provides a fresh insight into their experiences of oppression and marginalization that over time have led to liberation and empowerment. Often viewed as unimportant and inconsequential, these women’s stories and activism are now proving to be an integral part of both the Zainichi Korean community and Japanese society. Featuring in-depth interviews from 1994 to the present, three generations of Zainichi Korean women—those who migrated from colonial Korea before or during WWII and the Asia-Pacific War and their Japan-born descendants—share their version of history, revealing their lives as members of an ethnic minority. Discovering voices within constricting patriarchal traditions, the women in this book are now able to tell their history. Ethnography, interviews, and the women’s personal and creative writings offer an in-depth look into their intergenerational dynamics and provide a new way of exploring the hidden inner world of migrant women and the different ways displacement affects subsequent generations. This book goes beyond existing Anglophone and Japanese literatures, to explore the lives of the Zainichi Korean women. As such, it will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese and Korean history, culture and society, as well as ethnicity and Women’s Studies.

Author : Keith Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190077525

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Songs for "Great Leaders" by Keith Howard Pdf

Famously reclusive and secretive, North Korea can be seen as a theatre that projects itself through music and performance. The first book-length account of North Korean music and dance in any language other than Korean, Songs for "Great Leaders" pulls back the curtain on this theatre for the first time. Renowned ethnomusicologist Keith Howard moves from the first songs written in the northern part of the divided Korean peninsula in 1946 to the performances in February 2018 by a North Korean troupe visiting South Korea for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games. Through an exceptionally wide range of sources and a perspective of deep cultural competence, Howard explores old revolutionary songs and new pop songs, developments of Korean instruments, the creation of revolutionary operas, and mass spectacles, as well as dance and dance notation, and composers and compositions. The result is a nuanced and detailed account of how song, together with other music and dance production, forms the soundtrack to the theater of daily life, embedding messages that tell the official history, the exploits of leaders, and the socialist utopia yet-to-come. Based on fieldwork, interviews, and resources in private and public archives and libraries in North Korea, South Korea, China, North America and Europe, Songs for "Great Leaders" opens up the North Korean regime in a way never before attempted or possible.

Author : Sonia Ryang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429978272

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North Koreans In Japan by Sonia Ryang Pdf

This book considers the language, ideology, and identity of three generations of North Koreans in Japan organized around Chongryun. It explores how, over three generations, individuals and the community reconcile cope with changing attitudes and approaches toward Japanese society and Korean culture.