[Article] Narrative Journey Toward a “Nation-Building”: The Present State of K-Literature Seen Through Hwang Sok-yong’s Mater 2-10 (Searching for K-Discourse 3) / Baik Ji-yeon
The Quarterly Changbi 205, Fall 2024
Abstract
We present Baik Ji-yeon’s article, which dynamically illuminates the achievements and significance of Hwang Sok-yong’s Mater 2-10 in the assets and traditions of Korean literature, as the third article in the “Searching for K-Discourse” series. Baik pays particular attention to how this novel, which captures the lives and histories of modern industrial workers in Korea in a native “folktale-like realism,” explores a newly vital path for world narratives through the transformational imagination of “nation-building.”