Mediating the South Korean Other : Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State (Perspectives on Contemporary Korea)

Oh, David C. (EDT)

The University of Michigan Press（2022/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 254 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780472075454
• DDC分類 305.80095195

Full Description

Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal, global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The Korean ethnoscape and mediascape produce a complex understanding of difference that cannot be easily reduced to racism or ethnocentrism. Indeed the Korean word, injongchabyeol, often translated as racism, refers to discrimination based on any kind of "human category." Explaining Korea's relationship to difference and its practices of othering, including in media culture, requires new language and nuance in English-language scholarship.

This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars of multiculturalism in Korean media culture to examine mediated constructions of the "other," taking into account the nation's postcolonial and neocolonial relationships and its mediated construction of self. "Anthrocategorism," a more nuanced translation of injongchabyeol, is proffered as a new framework for understanding difference in ways that are locally meaningful in a society and media system in which racial or even ethnic differences are not the most salient. The collection points to the construction of racial others that elevates, tolerates, and incorporates difference; the construction of valued and devalued ethnic others; and the ambivalent construction of co-ethnic others as sympathetic victims or marginalized threats.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
David C. Oh

Part 1: Mediating the Racial and Ethnic Other

Chapter 1: Aspirational Interraciality and Desirable Whiteness: South Korean Media Depictions of Interracial Intimacies between White Women and Cosmopolitan South Korean Men
Min Joo Lee
Chapter 2: Strategic Blackness in South Korean Television
Benjamin Han
Chapter 3: Televised Korean Dream: The Birth of a Great Star and Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Survival Audition Program in South Korea
Ji-Hyun Ahn
Chapter 4: Narratives of Marginalized Otherness in Migrant Women: In South Korean films Rosa and Thuy
Eunbi Lee and Colby Miyose
Chapter 5: Two Sides of the 'Other': Fear and Loving of Japanese Characters in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
Russell Edwards

Part 2: Mediating the Co-Ethnic Other

Chapter 6: "Truth? No One Cares About the Truth": On Marginalized Identities and Belonging in The Bacchus Lady
Myoung-Sun Song
Chapter 7: Staging North Korean Defections: Uncharted Borders, Ideological Disorientation, and Diasporic Conditions
Miseong Woo
Chapter 8: Enemy of the State: Cold War Rhetoric and Representation of North Korea(ns) in Hallyu Films
JongHwa Lee
Chapter 9: Reframing the Difference of Co-ethnic Other in Japan: An Analysis of Representations and Identifications in a South Korean Documentary Film "Uri-Hakkyo"
Min Wha Han
Chapter 10: The Other at Home: A Comparative Analysis of Coverage of an Exiled Korean American K-pop Star
Alice N. Kim and Sherry S. Yu
Conclusion
David C. Oh
Contributors
Index