Encounter, Transformation, and Agency in a Connected World : Narratives of Ko...

by Broomhall, Susan

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Encounter, Transformation, and Agency in a Connected World : Narratives of Korean Women, 1, Paperback by Broomhall, Susan, ISBN 1032343095, ISBN-13 9781032343099, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Analysing a series of narratives that described women who transformed the worlds they lived in, this book introduces students and scholars to the lives of the women of Joseon Korea 1. Exploring both their interactions at home and abroad, this book shows how the agency of these women reached far across the globe. The narratives explored here appeared in a wide range of written, visual and material forms, from woodcuts and printed texts, letters, journals and chronicles, to inscriptions on monuments, and were produced by Joseon's elite officials, grieving families, Japanese civic administrators, Jesuit missionaries, local historians of the Japanese ceramic industry, and men of the Dutch East India Company. The women whose voices, lives and actionswere presented in these texts lived during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a time when Joseon Korea was itself undergoing substantial social, political and cultural changes. Their works described women's capacity to transform, in ways large and small, themselves, their families, and society around them. Interest in such women was not limited to a readership within the kingdom alone in this period but was reported across transnational networks to a global audience, from Japan to Europe, carrying messages about Korean women's age

• ISBN: 9781032343099
• Condition: Fine

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