Abstract or Keywords
Wayfarer: New Fiction by Korean Women presents eight women writers who are well known in their homeland, Korea, but unknown to most American readers. Writing from China and Japan has been popular in the West for many years, with women like Banana Yashimoto and Chinese-American Amy Tan reaching literary superstar status in the U.S. and Europe, but writings by Korean women are nearly unknown outside Asian Studies circles. The translators of the eight stories, [Bruce] and Ju-Chan Fulton, won the 1993 Korean Literature Translation Prize for their translation of the stories in Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers (Seattle: Seal Press, 1989). The Fultons have done a great service to Western readers with their translations.