Dawn of Labor / / Nohae Park.

Dawn of Labor, at last translated into English, is the legendary South Korean poet Park Nohae’s first collection, published in 1984 when he was twenty-seven years old. Despite a government ban, the book sold a million copies and propelled Park Nohae as the generation’s leading resistance poet. Dawn...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2024
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2024]
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Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:Hawai'i Studies on Korea
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 1 b&w illustration
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Romanization, Translation, and Glossary
  • PART I Our Love, Our Unrelenting Life
  • Heaven
  • No Way to Stop
  • A Newlywed’s Diary
  • Made for Each Other
  • While I Mend the Bedding
  • How Much?
  • Where Will We Go?
  • The Han River
  • Longing
  • The Bar Wagon
  • Garibong Market
  • Calling for Fingerprints
  • English Conversation
  • Off to Rot
  • Record of My Journey with Men
  • Incomprehensible Tales
  • Becoming Wise
  • PART II Dawn of Labor
  • Bargain Sale
  • The Dream of an Apprentice
  • Spring
  • Sleepiness
  • Working on Sunday
  • A Hand Grave
  • Maybe
  • When I Give You Up
  • A Real Worker
  • For a Peaceful Evening
  • Dawn of Labor
  • No Other Way
  • Sunset
  • PART III For a New Land
  • Love
  • The Wind to the Stones
  • Searching for Food
  • Confrontation
  • A Song about Leaving
  • Am I Drifting?
  • Samcheong Reeducation Camp I
  • Mother
  • A Beautiful Confession
  • I Am Nothing Special
  • Walls
  • Illusions
  • Dawn of Labor in Korean
  • Glossary
  • The Worker-Poet in Mass Culture
  • Poet Militant, Poet Inspirational
  • About Park Nohae
  • About the Translators and Contributor