The Making of Modern Subjects : Public Discourses on Korean Female Spectators in the Early Twentieth Century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gang, Sung Un.

Contributor:

., Funder.

Series:

Gender, Diversity, and Culture in History and Politics Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the early 20th century, Korean women began to manifest themselves in the public sphere. Sung Un Gang explores how the women's gaze was reimagined in public discourse as they attended plays and movies, delving into the complex negotiation process surrounding women's public presence. In this first extensive study of Korean female spectators in the colonial era, he analyzes newspapers, magazines, fictions, and images, arguing that public discourse aimed to mold them into a male-driven and top-down modernization project. Through a meticulous examination of historical sources, this study reconceptualizes colonial Korean female spectators as diverse, active agents with their own politics who played a crucial role in shaping colonial publicness.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Note on Romanization and Translation

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Question of Colonial Publicness and Theaters

Intersectional Spectatorship of Colonial Korean Women

Dissecting the Silence of Korean Female Audiences

Historical Discourse Analysis: Sources and Methods

Overview of Chapters

1. Conditions of Korean Women's Playgoing

1.1 Women's Spectatorship during the Choson Dynasty

Confucian Visual Culture

Choson Women's Spectating of Processions

1.2 Women's Playgoing during the Korean Empire

Seoul's Playhouses

Material Conditions of Theatergoing in the 1900s

The Gendered Interpellation of the Audience

2. Korean Women and Charity Concerts

2.1 Building a Nation through Donation

Independence Gate

National Debt Repayment Movement

2.2 Audiences and Playhouses: Destabilizers of the Nation

Apathetic Audiences: The Privileged

Endangered Hope: Male Students

"Lewd Women and Prodigal Men"

2.3 Embodying the Philanthropy: Politics of Charity Concerts

Seoul's Charity Concerts between 1906 and 1910

Diverse Interests behind Charity Concerts

Kisaeng Women's Interest in Charity Projects

Kibu Men's Interest in Charity Concerts

The Residency‐General's Interest in Charity Projects

Sermons and Stones Targeting Audiences

The Question of Women's Agency at Charity Concerts

3. Social Education in Korean Theaters

3.1 Theater's Role in Colonial Social Education

"Social Education (shakai kyōiku)" in the Japanese Debate

Theater and Social Education (1): Education Using New Media

Theater and Social Education (2): Compensating for Koreans' "Uncouth Nature"

3.2 How to Watch Shinp'a: Expectations of Cultural Assimilation

Maeil Shinbo's Promotion of Korean Shinp'a

The Cuckoo: Enforcing the Cultural Technique of Beholding.

The Tears: Disciplining Female Audiences

3.3 How to Behave in Theaters: Discipline and Negotiation

Foucauldian Concepts of Discipline and Subjectification

The Penetrating Gaze: Maeil Shinbo's Role in Disciplining Process

Negotiating Social Norms (1): Gendered Segregation

Negotiating Social Norms (2): Social Strata and Classes

4. Female Students and Romantic Movies

4.1 Western Romantic Movies and Korean Female Students

Korean Cinema Culture in the 1920s

Kissing Scenes in Romantic Movies

Female Students: Controversies and Agency

4.2 Redefining Marriage and Intimacy

Influences of Eugenics and Social Darwinism

Influence of Ellen Key

The Boom of Love (yŏnae)

Discussing "Eugenic Marriage" in the Late 1920s

4.3 Women's Moviegoing in the Context of Eugenic Marriage

Politics of Gender in the Eugenic Discourse

Maternal Health and Moviegoing

Stories Untold

5. A Doll's House and Interventions into Women's Spectatorship

5.1 A Doll's House in Colonial Korea

A Brief Trajectory of A Doll's House

Recasting Gender: A Doll's House and the Japanese New Theater

The Korean Reception of A Doll's House

5.2 Affirmative Commentaries: A Doll's House as a Pedagogical Play

Individualism for National Independence

Nora as a Figure of Anti‐Colonial Individualism

5.3 Rejective Commentaries: Nora of Chosŏn and the Question of True Awakening

"To Nora": Annulling Emancipatory Messages

Awakening of Love: The Feared Power of the Theater Performance

The Wife of the Incompetent Man: The Fall of Korean Nora

5.4 Affirmative‐Critical Commentaries of Korean Socialists

Socialist Views on the Inequality of Korean Women

Nora's Awakening as a Socialist (1): Why She Left the Doll's House

Nora's Awakening as a Socialist (2): Vega

5.5 Feminist Commentaries.

A Gendered Silence Surrounding A Doll's House

Reenacting Nora's Declaration: Na Hyesok's Emancipatory Commentaries

Nora and Ibsen as Role Models for Feminist Activism

Female Audiences' Applause

6. Conclusion

Rediscovering Korean Women as Spectators of Colonial Korea

Creating Ruptures in the Gendered Subjectification Process: Korean Female Spectators' Audience Publicness

Contribution of This Study

7. Selected Bibliography

Primary Sources

Newspapers

Magazines

Primary Sources: Online Database

Primary Sources: Anthologies, Books, Texts, and Films

Secondary Sources

8. Glossary (in Korean alphabetical order)

List of Tables

List of Figures.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783839469293