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Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early Literary History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy by Tatiana Gabroussenko (review)

Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early Literary History of North Korean... Review Essays Tatiana Gabroussenko, Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early Literary History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 210,0 239 pp. Tatiana Gabroussenko’s Soldiers on the Cultural Front is the second book in English on North Korean literature to be published ae ft r sixteen years. An abridgement and revision of a 24 d 00 issertation written at Australian National University and supervised by North Korea historian Andrei Lankov, the work argues with em- pirical evidence that Soviet Stalinist socialist realism was successfully implanted in North Korea from 15 t 49 o 1960. As suggested by a reference to a 2000 research trip on page one of the original dissertation, the study involved at least four years of research, with consultation of archival sources, colonial-e ra and North Korean literature, and Korean and Soviet participants in North Korean history (“Implan- tation” 1). Gabroussenko’s book is divided into five chapters, which are more objective than the unfortunately disparaging, hostile, and moralizing introduction and con- clusion. The first chapter deals with literary patterns and themes in North Korean writers’ Soviet travelogs; the second to fourth are biographies of the contrastingly fated party http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early Literary History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy by Tatiana Gabroussenko (review)

David-West, Alzo.
The Comparatist , Volume 37 – May 12, 2013
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Review Essays Tatiana Gabroussenko, Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early Literary History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 210,0 239 pp. Tatiana Gabroussenko’s Soldiers on the Cultural Front is the second book in English on North Korean literature to be published ae ft r sixteen years. An abridgement and revision of a 24 d 00 issertation written at Australian National University and supervised by North Korea historian Andrei Lankov, the work argues with em- pirical evidence that Soviet Stalinist socialist realism was successfully implanted in North Korea from 15 t 49 o 1960. As suggested by a reference to a 2000 research trip on page one of the original dissertation, the study involved at least four years of research, with consultation of archival sources, colonial-e ra and North Korean literature, and Korean and Soviet participants in North Korean history (“Implan- tation” 1). Gabroussenko’s book is divided into five chapters, which are more objective than the unfortunately disparaging, hostile, and moralizing introduction and con- clusion. The first chapter deals with literary patterns and themes in North Korean writers’ Soviet travelogs; the second to fourth are biographies of the contrastingly fated party

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Published: May 12, 2013

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