Questioning Minds: Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers

Hawai‘i Studies on Korea

by Yung-Hee Kim (Introduction), Kim Myong-Sun (Contributor), Na Hye-seok (Contributor)

Collects ten short stories by modern Korean women that touch in one way or another on issues related to gender and kinship politics. This title features an introduction that presents a historical overview of traditions of modern Korean women's fiction, situating the selected writers and their stories in the larger context of Korean literature.

Genres: Fiction

256 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Yung-Hee Kim is Professor of Korean literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Reviews

[Hyesol Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Do not read this collection of short stories if you are a reader with rigid demands for thematic diversity and or technical sophistication. These are not exposés, these stories are communicators of the historical consciousness of modern korean writers.

The chronological structure of the book provides a good sense of temporal flow + context necessary for a better understanding of achievements (and failings) by korean writers and general korean history. Also I am addicted to korean women.

Great stuff. #korea

I started this book before my trip and finished it on the plane back home…. One day I will write my own korean short autobiographical story about a liberal korean polycule☝️

[Sarah Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the brief biographies of the authors and the discussion of the stories afterward. I learned a lot.