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Seoul : memory, reinvention, and the Korean wave / Ross King.
LIBRA DS925.S457 K59 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Ross, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture.
- Seoul (Korea)--History.
- Seoul (Korea).
- Architecture--Korea (South)--Seoul.
- Korea (South)--Seoul.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 330 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Contested Memory 1
- Korea and historiography 2
- Sites, memory, identity 11
- Seoul 15
- Seoul and new media 19
- Chapter 2 Erasure and Reinvention: Korea to 1945 23
- Seoul and Korea before colonization 24
- Colonization 38
- Erasure or radical break? 47
- The problem of historiography 67
- Chapter 3 Re-Imag(in)ing the Nation: Seoul and Park Chung-Hee 74
- Park Chung-hee 75
- Park and the city 92
- Re-imag(in)ing the city 111
- The city and Christianity 121
- Chapter 4 Erasure as Heritage: Reading Seoul 131
- Dialectical image, montage, collage 132
- Seoul as collage 136
- Seoul as lines 170
- Seoul as assemblage and the place of memory 192
- Chapter 5 New Culture: Seoul in the Korean Wave 197
- Media and their contents 198
- The Korean Wave 217
- The Korean Wave as cultural colonization 232
- Seoul as assemblage revisited 241
- Chapter 6 Imagining the Nation: Reinvention and its Conditions of Possibility 247
- Conditions of possibility 249
- The postnation and the (other) nation 255
- The idea of "The end of history" 256
- Seoul at the end of history 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824872052
- 0824872053
- OCLC:
- 1001251015
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