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Editor's Note How do writers make it new in their work? How do they find new readers, publishers, and in this new century, languages and audiences beyond the southern half of the Korean peninsula? Azalea has sought to embody and exemplify that quest, publishing the new work of today’s Korean literary world, and seeking to make connections, to be a bridge to readers in the English language realms of North America and elsewhere. e c Th urrent issue presents new writers of fiction and poetry through the work of several die ff rent translators. An interview with Gong Jiyoung oe ff rs the writer’s views on the present-day Korean literary world. A Korean writer, to be sure, Gong has spent substantial intervals outside of Korea, and even in Korea, somewhat apart from the literary world. As she says, at least among women readers she is viewed as “someone who used to be bound by the fetters conventionally applied to women in Korea, but who has shaken them off.” We also oe ff r a special feature section on contemporarsi y jo poetry. The sijo poet Hong Sung-ran compiled for this issue a selection of fifty sijo poets, and several die ff http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture University of Hawai'I Press

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How do writers make it new in their work? How do they find new readers, publishers, and in this new century, languages and audiences beyond the southern half of the Korean peninsula? Azalea has sought to embody and exemplify that quest, publishing the new work of today’s Korean literary world, and seeking to make connections, to be a bridge to readers in the English language realms of North America and elsewhere. e c Th urrent issue presents new writers of fiction and poetry through the work of several die ff rent translators. An interview with Gong Jiyoung oe ff rs the writer’s views on the present-day Korean literary world. A Korean writer, to be sure, Gong has spent substantial intervals outside of Korea, and even in Korea, somewhat apart from the literary world. As she says, at least among women readers she is viewed as “someone who used to be bound by the fetters conventionally applied to women in Korea, but who has shaken them off.” We also oe ff r a special feature section on contemporarsi y jo poetry. The sijo poet Hong Sung-ran compiled for this issue a selection of fifty sijo poets, and several die ff

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Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Mar 23, 2011

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