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  title info:
    title: Language and truth in North Korea
  name:
    name part: Ryang, Sonia
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: hiu
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (pages cm)
  abstract: "In this innovative and persuasive volume, Sonia Ryang offers new ways to think about North Korea and how truth emerges over decades from within a dominant discourse. It explores four discrete yet mutually related domains of discourse: North Korea's literary purge of the 1950s-1960s; its state-initiated linguistic reforms of the 1960s-1980s; stories from a people's chronicle, more than one hundred volumes in length, documenting interactions with the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung; and the multivolume memoirs of the Great Leader himself, published in the 1990s. These texts are heterogeneous in terms of authorship, style, purpose, and genre, and many have never before been explored in Anglophone studies of North Korea. All have contributed to consolidating a North Korean regime of truth, bringing into existence a set of assumptions and shared understandings that have been regarded as true over the last half century. Basing her work on a study of these linguistic and discursive domains, Ryang explores the ways in which power, truth, and self are indissolubly connected by function as well as efficacy and how language plays a key role in sustaining their validity. The Kim Il Sung era, from 1945 to Kim's death in 1994, forms the basis of the book, but the way truth emerged and was sustained during these decades provides important insight into how we can comprehend North Korea today. Rather than view the country as an ideological entity in order to expose its falsehood, so to speak, thinking critically about what it sees as true yields a far more productive outcome for scholarly analysis as well as general understanding. Language and Truth in North Korea will find a ready audience among those interested in North Korea from a wide variety of disciplines, including the social sciences, history, philosophy, and theology"--
  table of contents: Purge -- Words -- The Chronicle -- The Memoirs.
  note: Sonia Ryang.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-kn---
  subject:
    topic: Korean language
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Korea (North)
  subject:
    topic: Korean language
    geographic: Korea (North)
    topic: Discourse analysis
  subject:
    topic: Language policy
    geographic: Korea (North)
  subject:
    topic: Truthfulness and falsehood
    geographic: Korea (North)
  subject:
    topic: Korean language
    topic: Discourse analysis
  subject:
    topic: Language policy
  subject:
    topic: Truthfulness and falsehood
  subject:
    geographic: Korea (North)
  classification: PL908.83 .R93 2021eb
  classification: 495.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Language and truth in North Korea
    name:
      name part: Ryang, Sonia.
    origin info:
      publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2021
    identifier: (DLC) 2021012052
    identifier: (OCoLC)1196839634
  identifier: 9780824888718
  identifier: 9780824888770
  identifier: 0824888715
  identifier: 0824888774
  identifier: 9780824886288
  identifier: 0824886283
  identifier: 9780824888725
  identifier: 0824888723
  identifier: 9780824888787
  identifier: 22573/ctv1pkg9nn JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1pncr13
  record info:
    record content source: HLQ
    record creation date: 210525
    record change date: 20211115211906.0
    record identifier: in00004368448
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng