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Kelly Y. Jeong - Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema - 9780739124512 - V9780739124512
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Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema

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Description for Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema Hardback. This book is about the changing constructs of modernity, masculinity, and gender relations and discourses in Korean literature and cinema during the crucial decades of the colonial and postcolonial era, from the 1920s to the 1960s, which have an enduring and wide-ranging impact on Korea's cultural experiences of the past century. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema is about the changing constructs of modernity, masculinity, and gender relations and discourses in Korean literature and cinema during the crucial decades of the colonial and postcolonial era, based on close historical examination and a wide-ranging theoretical foundation that look at both western and Korean language sources. It examines Korean literary and cinematic texts from the period that spans from the1920s to the 1960s to reveal the ways in which many arrivals of modernity in Korea—through the traumatic pathways and contexts of colonialism, nation building, war, and industrialization—destabilize and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
Number of Pages
156
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739124512
SKU
V9780739124512
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About Kelly Y. Jeong
Kelly Y. Jeong is assistant professor of Korean Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Reviews for Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema
Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema: Modernity Arrives Again compellingly reveals the shifting historicity of patriarchy and masculinism as centrally intersecting with the very processes of colonial and postcolonial modernization and nation-building. The book's acute analysis of the cultural representations of genders and sexualities forcefully engages us with the most complex and challenging historical periods, ... Read more

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