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unique voice, one that resonates with readers and encourages them to want
to learn more about the Korean experience. In asking students to analyze
historical documents and formulate personal opinions in relation to short
stories they read, their overall understanding of the writer’s purpose be-
comes evident, and historical reasoning becomes clearer. History teachers
can easily use the popularity of the short story genre to expand students’
study of colonial and postcolonial Korea. ■
NOTES
1. Yi Sanghwa, “Does Spring Come to Stolen Fields?,” Modern Korean Literature: An
Anthology, ed. Peter H. Lee (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1926), 80.
2. Mary E. Connor, The Koreas: Asia in Focus (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2009), 34.
3. On March 1, 1919, the Korean people engaged in nonviolent protest, expressing their
desire to be free and independent of Japan.
4. Yom Sang-sop, “The Rotary Press,” A Ready Made Life, eds. Kim Chongun and Bruce
Fulton (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1998), 32–45.
5. Pairing the story with an accessible historical text, such as sections from Korea
Through the Ages: Vol. 2 Modern (2005) by the Association of Korean History Teach-
ers and Lee Gil-sang, provides a sound basis for historical literary analysis, as it con-
tains both primary and secondary sources for students to review.
6. Bruce Fulton, “Modern Literature,” The Koreas: Asia in Focus, ed. Mary E. Connor
(Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2009), 259.
7. Bruce Fulton and Youngmin Kwon, Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2005).
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8. Yi Ki-yong, “A Tale of Rats,” A Ready Made Life, eds. Kim Chong-un and Bruce Ful-
ton (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1998), 23–31.
9. Hwang Sun-won, “Cranes,” Shadows of a Sound, ed. J. Martin Homan (San Francisco:
Mercury House, 1990), 1–6.
10. Gordon A. Monaghan, “1950 to 2000: Korea, Comparing War Monuments in North
and South Korea,” Asia for Educators, accessed July 18, 2011, http://bit.ly/PTs7KY.
11. Kim Min-suk, "Scarlet Fingernails," Wayfarer, eds. Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton (Seat-
tle: Women in Translation, 1997), 79–114.
12. Ha Songnan, “Waxen Wings,” in Waxen Wings: The ACTA Koreana Anthology of
Short Fiction from Korea, ed. Bruce Fulton (St. Paul, Minnesota: Koryo Press, 2011),
161–182.
13. “Inter-Korean Relations: Rivalry, Reconciliation, and Reunification. Fall Unit: For
Secondary and College-Level Students” on Stanford University’s website, last mod-
ified 2010, http://spice.stanford.edu.
SARAH CAMPBELL teaches English at Ketchikan High School in Ketchikan, Alaska. After
attending an NCTA Teaching East Asian Literature workshop in Bloomington, Indiana,
she designed an Asian Literature curriculum for high school juniors and seniors. With
the support of the Korean Academy for Educators, Teaching East Asia at the University of
Colorado, East Asian Resource Center at the University of Washington, and the Freeman
Foundation, Campbell has discovered powerful ways to share East Asian history, literature,
art, and current issues with her students.
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