Meeting with My Brother : : A Novella / / Mun-yol Yi.
Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is narrated by a middle-aged South Korean professor, also named Yi, whose father abandoned his family and defected to the North at the outbreak of the Korean War. Many years later, despite having spent most of his life under a cloud of suspicion as the son o...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Weatherhead Books on Asia
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (112 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Meeting with My Brother |
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| Summary: | Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is narrated by a middle-aged South Korean professor, also named Yi, whose father abandoned his family and defected to the North at the outbreak of the Korean War. Many years later, despite having spent most of his life under a cloud of suspicion as the son of a traitor, Yi is prepared to reunite with his father. Yet before a rendezvous on the Chinese border can be arranged, his father dies. Yi then learns for the first time that he has a half-brother, whom he chooses to meet instead. As the two confront their shared legacy, their encounter takes a surprising turn.Meeting with My Brother represents the political and psychological complexity of Koreans on both sides of the border, offering a complex yet poignant perspective on the divisions between the two countries. Through a series of charged conversations, Yi explores the nuances of reunification, both political and personal. This semiautobiographical account draws on Yi's own experience of growing up with an absent father who defected to the North and the stigma of family disloyalty. First published in Korea in 1994, Meeting with My Brother is a moving and illuminating portrait of the relationships sundered by one of the world's starkest barriers. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780231544672 9783110649826 9783110543308 9783110540550 9783110625264 9783110548198 |
| DOI: | 10.7312/yi--17864 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Mun-yol Yi. |