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In this article, I emphasize Korean women’s literary traditions and the social and historical relevance of Korean women’s literature. I trace the emergence of twentieth-century Korean women’s poetry in the context of the Korean women’s movement of the 1920s and 1930s and the more recent developments in the Korean women’s movement from the 1970s to the 1990s. I give attention to Korean feminist poets such as Ch’oe Sŭng-ja, Kim Hye-sun, and Yi Yŏn-ju, who in their works challenge and resist the literary expectations imposed on Korean women poets with their innovative use of language. I argue that their poetry displays critical consciousness of the condition of Korean women in a neocolonial, capitalist, and patriarchal society.

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THE POEM-SONG TRADITION
 FROM SONG TO WRITTEN WORD 
 THE NEW WOMEN
 KOREAN WOMEN’S LITERATURE IN KOREAN MODERNISM 
 THE TWIN WALLS
 INTO THE 1970S: GENDER AND CLASS LIBERATION
 FEMINIST POETS: CH’OE SŬNG-JA, KIM HYE-SUN AND YI YŎN-JU
 CONTEMPORARY KOREAN WOMEN’S POETRY OF THE 1990s TO THE PRESENT 
 FURTHER READING ON FEMINIST KOREAN WOMEN’S POETRY 
 SUGGESTED READINGS OF KOREAN WOMEN’S POETRY AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH

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• DON MEE CHOI [ an independent scholar. She lives in Seattle and translates the poetry of contemporary Korean women poets ]

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