Writing Across Boundaries:Literature in the Multicultural World

Proceedings of the Seoul International Forum for Literature 2000

This is the papers delivered at the International Forum for Literature organized by the Daesan Foundation and held in Seoul from September 26 to 29, 2000. More than seventy writers, critics and scholars participated in the Forum, with about twenty of them from abroad representing ten countries throughout the world. It was one of the largest of such literary events ever held in Seoul. The overall theme of the Forum was "Writing Across Boundaries: Literature in the Multicultural World." The participants fully discussed current developments in the writing field and how to deal with the dynamic changes occurring in the new multicultural and global world. And the forum provided a precious, intellectual, and cultural platform of discussion for foreign and domestic participants to share their ideas on what to do with the globalization of literature which is facing a turning point in the rapidly changing international circumstances.