Interweaving cultural, intellectual, and literary history, Professor Janet Poole, author of When the Future Disappears: The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea, looks at Korean writers in the final decade of Japanese colonial rule.  Korean writers, including Yi T’aejun, Ch’oe Myŏngik, Im Hwa, Sŏ Insik, Ch’oe Chaesŏ, Pak T’aewŏn, Kim Namch’on, and O Changhwan, used various strategies to narrate life as colonial subjects of an empire headed toward total war, producing some of the most sophisticated writings of twentieth-century modernism.

The book will be available for sale anda reception and book signing will follow.

Thursday, April 23, 2015  | 6:30 PM

Students, Explorers and Above: Free

Members: $10

Nonmembers:  $20

 Contemporary Culture programs are generously sponsored by CJ