One Left - Couverture souple

Soom, Kim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0295747668 ISBN 13 : 9780295747668

Editeur : University of Washington Press, 2020

Synopsis

Where did the curious idea of buying one’s way to sustainability come from? In no small part, the answer lies in the story of entrepreneurial health reformer J. I. Rodale, his son Robert Rodale, and their company, the Rodale Press. These early advocates of organic gardening cultivated a niche for natural health products in the 1950s, organized the emerging marketplace for organic foods in the 1960s, and in the process published an endless supply of advice books on diet and health. Rodale’s marketplace environmentalism brought environmentally minded consumers together and taught Americans how to grow food, eat, and live in arguably more earth-friendly ways. Yet the market has proved more effective at addressing individual health concerns than improving public health at large, as liable to champion untested, ineffectual health supplements as to challenge the indiscriminate use of dangerous pesticides. For anyone trying to make sense of the complex tensions between business profits and the desire for environmental reform, The Organic Profit is essential reading.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Kim Soom was born in 1974 in the city of Ulsan, South Kyŏngsang Province, and earned a degree in Social Welfare from Taejŏn University. She first appeared in print in 1997 and has since published six story collections and nine novels. She is the recipient of the Hŏ Kyun (2012), Hyundae munhak (2013), Daesan (2013), Yi Sang (2015), and Tongni-Mogwŏl (2017) literary prizes as well as the 2017 Special Reunification Prize. One Left is her first novel to appear in English translation.

Bruce Fulton is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. For their translation of One Left, Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton received an America PEN Heim Translation Grant, only the second such award for a Korean project. The Fultons have translated numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction, including the award-winning women's anthology Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers (Seal Press, 1989), with Marshall R. Pihl, Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction, rev. and exp. ed. (M.E. Sharpe, 2007) Sunset: A Ch'ae Manshik Reader (Columbia University Press, 2017). Bruce Fulton is also co-translator (with Kim Chong-un) of A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction (University of Hawai'i Press, 1998), co-editor (with Youngmin Kwon) of Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2005).

For their translation of One Left, Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton received an America PEN Heim Translation Grant, only the second such award for a Korean project. The Fultons have translated numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction, including the award-winning women's anthology Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers (Seal Press, 1989) and, with Marshall R. Pihl, Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction, rev. and exp. ed. (M.E. Sharpe, 2007). The Fultons have received several awards and fellowships for their translations, including two National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships and a residency at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre, the first ever awarded for translators from any Asian language.

Bonnie Oh is Distinguished Professor of Korean Studies (retired) and former Director of Women's Studies at Georgetown University. She has authored, coauthored or edited several books including, with coeditor Margaret Stetz, Legacies of Comfort Women of WWII (Routledge, 2000).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0295747668
• ISBN 13: 9780295747668
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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