Mediating the South Korean other : representations and discourses of difference in the post/neocolonial nation-state / David C. Oh, Editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oh, David C., editor.

Series:

Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism--Korea (South).

Multiculturalism.

Postcolonialism--Korea (South).

Postcolonialism.

Korea (South)--Ethnic relations.

Korea (South).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2022.

Summary:

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:

Introduction / David C. Oh

Part I: Mediating the Racial and Ethnic Other: 1. Aspirational Interraciality and Desirable Whiteness: South Korean Media Depictions of Interracial Intimacies between White Women and Cosmopolitan South Korean Men / Min Joo Lee

2. Strategic Blackness in South Korean Television / Benjamin M. Han

3. The Televised Korean Dream: The Birth of a Great Star and Racial/Ethnic Diversity in the Survival Audition Program in South Korea / Ji-Hyun Ahn

4. Narratives of Marginalized Otherness in Migrant Women: The South Korean films Rosa and Thuy / Eunbi Lee and Colby Y. Miyose

5. Two Sides of the "Other": Fear and Loving of Japanese Characters in Contemporary South Korean Cinema / Russell Edwards

Part II: Mediating the Co-ethnic Other: 6. "Truth? No One Cares about the Truth": On Marginalized Identities and Belonging in The Bacchus Lady / Myoung-Sun Song

7. Staging North Korean Defections: Uncharted Borders, Ideological Disorientation, and Diasporic Conditions / Miseong Woo

8. Enemy of the State: Cold War Rhetoric and Representation of North Korea/ns in Hallyu Films / JongHwa Lee

9. Reframing the Difference of Co-ethnic Other in Japan: An Analysis of Representations and Identifications in the South Korean Documentary Film Uri-Hakkyo / Min Wha Han

10. The Other at Home: A Comparative Analysis of Coverage of an Exiled Korean American K-Pop Star / Alice Nahyeon Kim and Sherry S. Yu

Conclusion / David C. Oh

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

Other Format:

Print version: Oh, David C. Mediating the South Korean Other

ISBN:

9780472220373

0472220373