Jang Yeong-hui (; September 14, 1952 – May 9, 2009) was a

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n professor, scholar, translator, and essayist.

Biography

Chang was born to father Chang Wang-rok (), a noted scholar of

English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian languages, Anglo-Frisian d ...

, and mother Yi Gil-ja () in

Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...

in 1952. When she was one year old, she suffered

poliomyelitis Poliomyelitis ( ), commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Approximately 75% of cases are asymptomatic; mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe ...

, which caused

paralysis Paralysis (: paralyses; also known as plegia) is a loss of Motor skill, motor function in one or more Skeletal muscle, muscles. Paralysis can also be accompanied by a loss of feeling (sensory loss) in the affected area if there is sensory d ...

of both legs and right arm.명수필가이자 영문학자 장영희 교수, 암 투병중 별세
/ref> She read

Sogang University Sogang University (SU; ) is a private Jesuit research university in Mapo, Seoul, South Korea. Sogang University was established on April 18, 1960 by the Society of Jesus, with the school being the oldest and only Jesuit institution of higher e ...

and finished her undergraduate and graduate studies in 1975 and 1977. She received a doctoral degree from

State University of New York The State University of New York (SUNY ) is a system of Public education, public colleges and universities in the New York (state), State of New York. It is one of the List of largest universities and university networks by enrollment, larges ...

at Albany in 1985 with the thesis titled ''Journeys between Real and the Ideal''. Since 1985, Chang had worked as a professor at the department of English literature,

. She wrote columns for ''

The Korea Times ''The Korea Times'' () is a daily English-language newspaper in South Korea. It is a sister paper of the ''Hankook Ilbo'', a major Korean language, Korean-language daily. It is the oldest active daily English-language newspaper in South Korea. ...

'' and ''

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'' respectively since 1987 and 2001. Chang also had served as an executive director and editor for the Korea Hawthorne Society since 1995 and the Korea

Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Fau ...

Society since 2003. After being diagnosed with

breast cancer Breast cancer is a cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a Breast lump, lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, Milk-rejection sign, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipp ...

in 2001, Chang had two surgeries and

chemotherapy Chemotherapy (often abbreviated chemo, sometimes CTX and CTx) is the type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (list of chemotherapeutic agents, chemotherapeutic agents or alkylating agents) in a standard chemotherapy re ...

to remove the tumour. However, Chang died of

spinal cancer Spinal tumors are neoplasms located in either the vertebral column or the spinal cord. There are three main types of spinal tumors classified based on their location: extradural and intradural (intradural-intramedullary and intradural-extramedulla ...

at Yonsei Severance Hospital on May 9, 2009. It was meyastasised from breast cancer after her eight years' struggling against the disease.

Works

Authored books

*Teaching English () *English Textbooks for Elementary, Middle, and High Schools () *Joureys between the Real and the ideal *Crazy Quilt /Dongmunsa () / 1971—English Essay *Only once in my life (), Essay written in Korean () / 샘터사 /September 2000 *Big Fish ()/동아시아/February 15, 2004 *But Love remains ()/샘터/June 30, 2004 *To you with no name ()/창비/August 30, 2004 *Song of sad cafe ()/열림원/January 15, 2005 *Strolling the Woods of Literature ()/샘터사/March 15, 2005 *Birthday ()/April 2006/비채 *Blessing - the biggest blessing in the world is Hope ()/July 2006/도서출판 비채 *To you who become twenty years old ()()/February 2007/한겨레출판 *Miracle being lived and to live ()() : *The titles of the above books were literally translated. Not official English titles.

Translations by Chang

* Jongi sigye ()/Dongmunsa (), 1991 *

Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind most often refers to: * Gone with the Wind (novel), ''Gone with the Wind'' (novel), a 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell * Gone with the Wind (film), ''Gone with the Wind'' (film), the 1939 adaptation of the novel Gone with the Wind ...

(바람과 함께 사라지다,공역) *Scarlet 스칼렛(공역)/교원문고/1993 *살아있는 갈대(공역)/동문사/1996 *바너비 스토리(역)/프레스21/2001.04.01 *백년자작나무 숲에 살자(역)/2004 *피터팬(역)/비룡소/2004.01.30 *세상을 다 가져라(역)/이레/2004.02.10

Thesis

*''Disability as Metaphor in American Literature'' (은유로서의 신체장애: 미국문학의 경우) (July, 2001) , The American Studies Association of Korea *''Still on the Trail: Emerson, Thoreau, and Failure of Transcendentalism'', (December, 2002), Korea Hawthorne Society *''The City as Psyche in The Scarlet Letter and Sister Carrie'', (May, 2003) Korea Hawthorne Society, The American Fiction Association of Korea *''Huckleberry Finns Dual Vision:A Journey towards Ishmaelian Equal Eye'', The Korean Society Of British And American Fiction 근대영미소설학회/2003.10 *''Korean Sources & References in Jack Londons'', (December, 2003), The Star Rover, The American Studies Association of Korea

Awards

*1981 Korean literature translation prize, award hosted by

Hankook Ilbo ''Hankook Ilbo'' () is a Korean-language daily newspaper in Seoul, South Korea. As of 2017, it had a daily circulation of about 213,200. It was previously published by the Hankook Ilbo Media Group, however following an embezzlement scandal i ...

*March, 2002, This year's writing, awarded by National Cultural Movement Headquarters올해의 문장상/국민문화운동본부 *December, 2005 the 10th Proud Sogang alumni award by Sogang University Alumni Association

References

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