Disability Metaphors and Patriotic-Enlightenment Movement in the Korea Daily News, 1907-1910
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Keywords
disability, metaphors, the Korea Daily News
Abstract
This article explores disability metaphors in the Korea Daily News from 1907 to 1910, in particular analyzing the section titled, pyunpyungidam. The author argues that this earliest Korean modern newspaper used blindness and language disabilities to represent its antagonist and its despair in the context of the patriotic enlightenment movement against colonialism.
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Ko, M. (2007). Refraction of modern knowledge in the period of enlightenment and actual deepening. Somyung Publiacations.
Koo, J. (2009). From a historiographer to a writer. Journal of Korean Modern Literature
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Park, N. (2004). gaehwagiui gungmin damnongwa geu sogui tajadeul [the discourse of citizens and others and others during early modernization] In Korean Culture Research Institute (Eds.), The shaping of Korean modernity: The introduction of modern concepts during the Korean enlightenment period (1895-1910) (pp. 223-256). Somyeongchulpan.
Pirichunchu [discerning what is wrong or right without showing it]. (1910, May 5). Korea Daily News: Sisapyeongnon [review], 2.
Ryu, D. (2005). Hanmal gidokgyo sinmunui munmyeonggaehwaron [Civilization and enlightenment thoughts of protestant newspapers in late Joseon]. Korean Christianity and History, 22, 5-43.
Schmid, A. (2002). Korea between empires, 1895-1919. Columbia University Press.
Sherry, M. (2007). (Post)colonizing disability. Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational and Women’s Studies, 4, 10–23. Retrieved from http://appweb.cortland.edu/ojs/index.php/Wagadu/article/view/323/609
Sontag, S. (2002). Illness as a metaphor (J. Lee, Trans.). Seoul, Republic of Korea: Ewho publications. (Original work published 1978).
Thomson R. G. (1997). Extraordinary bodies: Figuring physical disability in American culture and literature. Columbia University Press.
Wodak, R., & Meyer, M. (2009). Methods of critical discourse analysis. (2nd ed.). Sage Publications.
Wright, D. (2011). Down: The history of a disability. Oxford University Press.
Yuuiyusikaneunjaneun gungminui dojeok [People who do not work but wear and eat are a thief.]. (1909, January 19). Korea Daily News: Nonseol [editorial], 1.
Barker, C., & Murray, S. (2010). Disabling postcolonialism: Global disability cultures and democratic criticism. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 4, 219–236. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2010.20
Beongeoriga jonnya [Do you like being a mute?]. (1909, September 2). Korea Daily News: Japbo [miscellaneous news], 2.
Bonsasawon [an anonymous journalist]. (1910, August 7). Korea Daily News: Pyeonpyeongidam, 3
Botonggyoyugui pillyo [the necessity of public education]. (1908, July 7). Korea Daily News: Nonseol [editorial], 1.
Choi, K. (2001). Impaired body as colonial trope: Kang Kyong’ae’s “underground village.” Public Culture, 13(3), 431-458.
Cleall, E., & Gust, O. (2021). Disability as a problem of humanity in Scottish enlightenment thought. 23. Historical Journal. 10.1017/S0018246X21000133
Dangyeonhigeumharil [forbidden behaviors]. (1908, January 9). Korea Daily News: Japbo [miscellaneous news], 2.
Dorosogyeong [becoming a blind again]. (1909, November 23). Korea Daily News: Japdongsani [short articles], 1.
Erevelles, N. (2011). Disability and difference in global contexts: Enabling a transformative body politic. Palgrave Macmillan.
Erevelles, N., & Minear, A. (2010). Unspeakable offenses: Untangling race and disability in discourses of intersectionality. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 4, 127–145. doi:10.3828/jlcds.2010.11
Gak singmun wihyeopaneun [the threat to the newspapers]. (1909, February 2). Korea Daily News: Nonseol [editorial], 1.
Gee, J. P. (1999). An introduction to discourse analysis theory and method (2nd ed.). Routledge.
Ghandi, L. (2019). Postcolonial theory: A critical introduction (2nd ed.). Columbia University Press.
Grech, S., & Soldatic, K. (2015). Disability and colonialism: (Dis)encounters and anxious intersectionalities. Social Identities, 21(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2014.995394
Guha, R., & Spivak, G. C (Eds.). (1988). Selected subaltern studies. Oxford University Press.
Gungminui oeyanggwa gukgaui seongsoe [citizens’ appearance and the rise and fall of a nation]. (1910, March 29). Korea Daily News: Nonseol [editorial], 1.
Hanjibe se sikgu [three family members]. (1907, December 18). Korea Daily News: Pyunpyungidam, 3.
Hall, S. (2007). The west and the rest: Discourse and power. (In T. Das Gupta, C. E., James, R. C. A. Maaka, G. Galabui, & C. Anderson (eds). Race and Racialization: Essential Readings (2nd ed.). (pp. 56-64). Canadian Scholars Press.
Ham, D. (2004). geundaeilbonui munmyeongnongwa geu ijungseong. [the civilization mission of modern Japan and its duplicity]. In Korean Culture Research Institute (Eds.), The shaping of Korean modernity: The introduction of modern concepts during the Korean enlightenment period (1895-1910) (pp.363-392). Somyeongchulpan.
Han, H. (1991). Study on characters in Korean modern novels focusing on physical disabilities. Doctoral dissertation, Ehwa University.
Han, M. (2005). Censorship in Japanese colonial period and the impaired character-novels in 1930. Journal of Korean Literature, 29, 7-33.
Hanjibe se sikguga inneunde [There was a family of three]. (1909, January 29). Korea Daily News: Pyeonpyeongidam, 3.
Jang, M. (1909, January 29). Korea Daily News: Pyeonpyeongidam, 3.
Jeon, E. (2010). A study on Pyunpyungidam such as readers' storytelling in the newspaper, Korea daily news, and the appearance of "writing readers". The Learned Society of Koran Modern Literature, 30, 71-102. http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01438021.
Jin, D. (2004). Geundae jeonhwangi (1894-1910) inswaemaechereul tonghae bon geundae jisikgwa gaenyeomui hyeongseong mit byeonmo yangsange gwanhan yeongu bogoseo [Research report on the construction and change of modern knowledge and concepts in print media during early modernization period (1894-2921)]. Ewha Women’s University.
Jung, Y. (2003). The boundaries and cracks of the nation discourse in the enlightenment era of Korea. Journal of Modern Korean Literature, 4(2), 9-46.
Kim, D. (2007). A study on the ‘reality’ category formation and narrative specific of ‘jab-bo’ in the Maeil Sinmun. Master thesis, Pusan National University.
Kim, Y. (1908, June 27). Korea Daily News: Pyeonpyeongidam, 3
Kim, Y. (2016). Reconsidering women, religion, and disability in Kye Yong-mook’s ‘Baekchi Adada’. Literature and Religion, 21(2), 49-63.
Ko, M. (2007). Refraction of modern knowledge in the period of enlightenment and actual deepening. Somyung Publiacations.
Koo, J. (2009). From a historiographer to a writer. Journal of Korean Modern Literature
, 39, 65-101.
Park, N. (2004). gaehwagiui gungmin damnongwa geu sogui tajadeul [the discourse of citizens and others and others during early modernization] In Korean Culture Research Institute (Eds.), The shaping of Korean modernity: The introduction of modern concepts during the Korean enlightenment period (1895-1910) (pp. 223-256). Somyeongchulpan.
Pirichunchu [discerning what is wrong or right without showing it]. (1910, May 5). Korea Daily News: Sisapyeongnon [review], 2.
Ryu, D. (2005). Hanmal gidokgyo sinmunui munmyeonggaehwaron [Civilization and enlightenment thoughts of protestant newspapers in late Joseon]. Korean Christianity and History, 22, 5-43.
Schmid, A. (2002). Korea between empires, 1895-1919. Columbia University Press.
Sherry, M. (2007). (Post)colonizing disability. Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational and Women’s Studies, 4, 10–23. Retrieved from http://appweb.cortland.edu/ojs/index.php/Wagadu/article/view/323/609
Sontag, S. (2002). Illness as a metaphor (J. Lee, Trans.). Seoul, Republic of Korea: Ewho publications. (Original work published 1978).
Thomson R. G. (1997). Extraordinary bodies: Figuring physical disability in American culture and literature. Columbia University Press.
Wodak, R., & Meyer, M. (2009). Methods of critical discourse analysis. (2nd ed.). Sage Publications.
Wright, D. (2011). Down: The history of a disability. Oxford University Press.
Yuuiyusikaneunjaneun gungminui dojeok [People who do not work but wear and eat are a thief.]. (1909, January 19). Korea Daily News: Nonseol [editorial], 1.
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Author Biography
Eunyoung Jung, SUNY (State University of New York) Cortland
Eunyoung Jung is an assistant professor in Foundations and Social Advocacy Department at SUNY (State University of New York) Cortland. She completed her Ph. D. in Special Education and C.A.S. in Disability Studies at Syracuse University. Her research interests lie in the area of transition to adulthood of young people with disabilities, intellectual and developmental disabilities, disability discourses and critical ethnography.