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This chapter presents two Korean writers of German-language literature. Mirok Li (1899–1950) fled Korea in 1919 after participating in a peaceful protest against Japan’s annexation of his country and landed in Germany, where he wrote of his hardships. Kang Moon Suk (1965–) went to Germany as a singer and added to her repertoire erotic poetry suggestive of her background in both a Korea that permitted women some freedom to express their sexuality and also a Germany where she could expose her most intimate self. Seldom recognized for their ethnic particularity, these writers have created a literary picture of themselves as Koreans for the German-reading public that implies ways they have adapted to and coped with German culture.
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Roberts, L.M. (2018). Depictions of the Self as Korean in German-Language Literature by Mirok Li and Kang Moon Suk. In: Cho, J., Roberts, L. (eds) Transnational Encounters between Germany and Korea. Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95224-3_11
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