The Institute for Korean Studies presents
"Colonial Modernity in A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist"
Kelly Jeong, Associate Professor
Korean Studies/Comparative Literature
University of California, Riverside
Flyer: 
Kelly Jeong Flyer.pdf
Abstract: This talk will focus on colonial Korea’s representative work A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist by Pak T’aewon. This novella is Pak’s most famous text, which celebrates and critiques the rapidly modernizing colonial city of Seoul, the author’s beloved hometown. Along with the stream of consciousness technique he uses to tell his story, the lecture will consider the prominent themes of colonial modernity, the figure of the flaneur and the colonial intellectual, and the allures and dark sides of city life found in the text.
Bio: Professor Jeong's research interests include modern and contemporary Korean literature, culture, and cinema. She published a book entitled Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema: Modernity Arrives Again with Lexington Books/Rowman & Little-field Publishers as well as numerous articles on Korean literature and film in The Review of Korean Studies, Journal of Korean Studies, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, and The Quarterly Review of Film and Video, among others.
