Factory Girl Literature

As millions of women and girls left country towns to generate Korea’s manufacturing boom, the factory girl emerged as an archetypal figure in twentieth-century popular culture.

Title: Factory Girl Literature

Author: Ruth Barraclough 

Publication Year: 2012

Publication type: Book

Publisher: University of California Press

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Abstract

As millions of women and girls left country towns to generate Korea’s manufacturing boom, the factory girl emerged as an archetypal figure in twentieth-century popular culture. This book explores the factory girl in Korean literature from the 1920s to the 1990s, showing the complex ways in which she has embodied the sexual and class violence of industrial life.