
The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost
Sok-pom Kim(Author)
Columbia University Press
Published on 29. September 2010
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Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-231-15311-9 (ISBN)
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The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost incorporates Korean folk tales, ghost stories, and myth into a phenomenal depiction of epic tragedy. Written by a zainichi, a permanent resident of Japan who is not of Japanese ancestry, the novel tells the story of Mandogi, a young priest living on the island of Cheju-do. Mandogi becomes unwittingly involved in the Four-Three Incident of 1948, in which the South Korean government brutally suppressed an armed peasant uprising and purged Cheju-do of communist sympathizers. Although Mandogi is sentenced to death for his part in the riot, he survives (in a sense) to take revenge on his enemies and fully commit himself to the resistance. Mandogi's indeterminate, shapeshifting character is emblematic of Japanese colonialism's outsized impact on both ruler and ruled. A central work of postwar Japanese fiction, The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost relates the trauma of a long-forgotten history and its indelible imprint on Japanese and Korean memory.
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English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
193 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-15311-9 (9780231153119)
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Kim Sok-pom (b. 1925) was born in Osaka, Japan, to Korean parents who emigrated from the island of Cheju-do. He is best known for his seven-volume fictional work, Kazanto (Volcano Island), which centers on the Cheju Uprising of 1948. Cindi Textor is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington-Seattle.