{"product_id":"the-sensational-proletarian-leftist-cultures-in-colonial-korea-hardback-9781503640474","title":"The Sensational Proletarian; Leftist Cultures in Colonial Korea (Hardback) 9781503640474","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Sensational Proletarian\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLeftist Cultures in Colonial Korea\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKimberly Chung (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503640474\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 24 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Sensational Proletarian\u003c\/i\u003e offers an original and methodologically innovative analysis of colonial Korean proletarian culture. Chung presents an insightful and important case study of the complex relationship between politics and aesthetics, advancing new frontiers of affect studies. It is essential reading for those interested in Korean cultural history and global leftist cultures.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Sunyoung Park, University of Southern California \"This engaging study examines how sensational representations of the proletarian body in 1920s-30s Korean print culture under Japanese colonialism made unique uses of affect, emotion, and visceral feelings to popularize leftist thought and class politics. Kimberly Chung presents astute, original readings of sensation, horror, and spectrality in literature, journalism, visual culture, and in the Marxist tradition itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Lisa Lowe, Yale University \"\u003ci\u003eThe Sensational Proletarian\u003c\/i\u003e casts new light on colonial Korea's influential proletarian cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Underscoring the importance of sensation and the sensational to the popularization of the proletarian body, Kimberly Chung shows how affective excess travels across multiple forms of print culture to offer new ways of imagining revolutionary futures. Chung's groundbreaking work on the visualization, folklorization, and gendering of class is a must-read for those interested in colonial proletarian culture and its affective and sensational K-afterlives, which have now found a global audience.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Theodore Hughes, Columbia University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eStarving ghosts, anguished farmers, and grieving mothers. Floating heads, gaunt bodies, and masses of bodily fluids. Such are the visceral sensations, exaggerated affects, and suffering subjects that characterized leftist Korean cultural production in the 1920s and 1930s. In popular fiction, print cartoons, reportage, and other emergent forms of mass culture, scenes detailing the spectacular bodily harms endured by figures like migrant workers, tenant farmers, and everyday families proliferated. Yet at the time such representations were criticized as excessively grotesque and insufficiently political by leftist intellectuals, and they have subsequently been overlooked by scholars in favor of socialist realism and its dynamic proletarian heroes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sensational Proletarian\u003c\/i\u003e, by contrast, focuses on these textual and visual representations to tell the story of how new affects and everyday experiences introduced by imperial capitalism and colonial modernity were mediated through the lower-class body. Kimberly Chung traces the emergence of \"the sensational proletarian\" as a central figure of colonial Korean print culture and reads its varied manifestations as emblematic of Korean efforts not only to grapple with modernity, imperialism, and capitalism, but to do so using the new political ideology and imaginary of Marxism. This book brings to light the centrality of sensational cultures in the development of class politics in Korea, an integral relationship that continues throughout modern and contemporary Korean cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Note on Names, Romanization, and Translations\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Narrating Sensations of Class in New Tendency Literature\u003cbr\u003e  2. Visualizing the Proletarian Body in Print Culture\u003cbr\u003e  3. The Affective Worlding of Marxism through the Starving Ghost\u003cbr\u003e  4. Feminizing the Sensational Proletarian\u003cbr\u003e  Epilogue: The Specter of Sensationalism\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685401981208,"sku":"9781503640474","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-sensational-proletarian-leftist-cultures-in-colonial-korea-hardback-9781503640474","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}