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Modern Korean Digraphia: Metanarration and National Identity, 1894-1972

by William J Strnad
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Mar 2025
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William Strnad traces the formation and development of modern Korean digraphia during the years 1894-1972, including a description and analysis of the historical discourse related to Korean phonetic script and Chinese characters.

Modern Korean digraphia was contextualized and altered amid the global emancipation and speculative metanarratives of modernity, and the national metanarratives of nationalism and modernization. These constructions were shaped by the civilization discourse of the nineteenth century, imperialism, the experience of Japanese occupation, and after liberation, the Cold War politics of Marxist utopianism in North Korea and bourgeois progressivism in South Korea. By 1972, the narrative closure of the global and national metanarratives of modernity in both Koreas provided the socio-political space for the limited reversal of Korean script exclusivity, which had earlier been implemented in the North and South.

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Publisheribidem Press
PublishedMar 4, 2025
ISBN-103838217934
ISBN-139783838217932
Paperback592.0 pages
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions0.79 × 5.83 × 8.27 in
Weight2 lb

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