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The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Sekihan Kin, Kim Sok-Pom is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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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Author

Sekihan Kin, Kim Sok-Pom

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612784576

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction