Threat to the Family Revolution in North Korea: Reading the Individual in Paek Namryong’s Friend 


Vol. 14,  No. 2, pp. 225-245, Dec.  2011
10.18399/acta.2011.14.2.010


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According to some North Korean defectors, Paek Namryong’s Pŏt (Friend) caused a sensation among the North Korean readers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This is not only because of the novelty of bringing a sensitive issue of divorce into the narrative, but also because Paek creatively depicts the raw human nature and emotions through the characters. While the narrative attempts to maintain the harmony of the nuclear family as the Party desires, Paek leaves his readers in the chaotic world of unresolved marital problems. Paek Namryong’s Pŏt is one of the few novels in contemporary North Korean literature that allows the readers to sympathize with the so-called “internal enemy of the state,” who is an individual with a higher obligation to herself rather than to the state.

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[IEEE Style]

I. Kim, "Threat to the Family Revolution in North Korea: Reading the Individual in Paek Namryong’s Friend," Academia Koreana, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 225-245, 2011. DOI: 10.18399/acta.2011.14.2.010.

[ACM Style]

Immanuel Kim. 2011. Threat to the Family Revolution in North Korea: Reading the Individual in Paek Namryong’s Friend. Academia Koreana, 14, 2, (2011), 225-245. DOI: 10.18399/acta.2011.14.2.010.

[APA Style]

Kim, I. (2011). Threat to the Family Revolution in North Korea: Reading the Individual in Paek Namryong’s Friend. Academia Koreana, 14(2), 225-245. DOI: 10.18399/acta.2011.14.2.010.

[MLA Style]

Immanuel Kim. "Threat to the Family Revolution in North Korea: Reading the Individual in Paek Namryong’s Friend." Academia Koreana, vol. 14, no. 2, 2011, pp. 225-245. doi:10.18399/acta.2011.14.2.010

[HAVARD Style]

Immanuel Kim (2011) 'Threat to the Family Revolution in North Korea: Reading the Individual in Paek Namryong’s Friend', Academia Koreana, 14(2), pp. 225-245. doi:10.18399/acta.2011.14.2.010

[ACS Style]

Kim, I.. Academia Koreana 14 2011, 225-245. 10.18399/acta.2011.14.2.010

[ABNT Style]

Kim, I.. Threat to the Family Revolution in North Korea: Reading the Individual in Paek Namryong’s Friend. Academia Koreana, v. 14, n. 2, p. 225-245, 2011. DOI: 10.18399/acta.2011.14.2.010

[Chicago Style]

Immanuel Kim. "Threat to the Family Revolution in North Korea: Reading the Individual in Paek Namryong’s Friend." Academia Koreana 14, no. 2 (2011): 225-245. doi:10.18399/acta.2011.14.2.010

[TURABIAN Style]

Immanuel Kim. "Threat to the Family Revolution in North Korea: Reading the Individual in Paek Namryong’s Friend." Academia Koreana 14, no. 2 (2011): 225-245. 10.18399/acta.2011.14.2.010

[VANCOUVER Style]

Immanuel Kim. Threat to the Family Revolution in North Korea: Reading the Individual in Paek Namryong’s Friend [Academia Koreana]. 2011;14:225-245. DOI:10.18399/acta.2011.14.2.010

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