Grass
Grass (Pul) is a 2017 Korean-language graphic novel by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. It was translated into English by Janet Hong, with that version published in 2019 by Drawn and Quarterly. The English version has a translator's note.
Grass
- Creator
- Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
- Date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Drawn & Quarterly
- Language
- English
- Genre
- biography · memoir
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Grass (Pul) is a 2017 Korean-language graphic novel by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. It was translated into English by Janet Hong, with that version published in 2019 by Drawn and Quarterly. The English version has a translator's note.
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It is recorded as the work of Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. Publication is recorded by Drawn & Quarterly. The recorded date of publication is 2019. Recorded genres are biography and memoir. The recorded subject matter is comfort woman, World War II and sexual slavery.
It is about Ok-sun a.k.a. "Granny Lee", a woman who had been a "comfort woman" in World War II, returning to live in Korea. Alison Mandaville of California State University, Fresno wrote that it is "An oral history in comics form". A version of Gendry-Kim is in the story and tries to record an oral history of Ok-sun. Sean Rogers of the Globe and Mail wrote that "respectful distance" is used in the story.
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Tom Lathan of Times Literary Supplement stated that the artwork has Eastern and Western influences.
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2019
Grass published.
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The Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) stated that Gendry-Kim "conscientiously eschews sensationalizing or providing graphic representations of violent scenes." Thomas L. Batten of Library Journal wrote that the artwork is "exquisite" and that the narrative is "thoughtful". The book received the Harvey Award. By 2021 there were about 14 translations.
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- 1.Lathan, Tom. The shoots spring up again. Times Literary Supplement. 2020-04-10.
- 2.Wing, Dawn. Book Review: “Grass”. Asian Pacific American Librarians Association.
- 3.Rogers, Sean. Translating art is difficult, complex work – especially when it’s Korean comic books. The Globe and Mail. 2019-10-22.
- 4.Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. World Literature Today.
- 5.Park, Ed. When George Takei Was Imprisoned in an American Internment Camp. The New York Times. 2019-09-09.
- 6.Batten, Thomas. Grass. Library Journal. 2019-10-25.
- 7.Kwak, Yeon-soo. INTERVIEW. The Korea Times. 2021-01-21.
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Its recorded subjects are comfort woman, World War II, sexual slavery and South Korea. It is placed in the genres biography and memoir.
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