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Revisiting minjung : new perspectives on the cultural history of 1980s South Korea / edited by Sunyoung Park

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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Physical Description
viii, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Park, Sunyoung, 1971-

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Contents
Social memories of the 1980s : unpacking the regime of discontinuity / Namhee Lee -- The irrepressibility of teleology : the 1980s as historiography / Kyung Moon Hwang -- In search of alternative modernity : the 1980s in the history of South Korean intellectual thought / Jae-Yong Kim -- Political travel at cold war's end : international student exchanges between Australia and the two Koreas / Ruth Barraclough -- Exhibiting Minjung art abroad : Tokyo, New York, and Pyongyang at the Cold War?' twilight / Sohl Lee -- Where have all the "shouting stones" gone? South Korean workers? Literary clubs and labor literature, 1970s-1990s / Jung-Hwan Cheon -- Indie before indie : Minjung song in the history of South Korean popular music / Chang Nam Kim -- Bright constellation : the rise and significance of women's liberation literature in 1980s South Korea / Hye-Ryoung Lee -- Queering the dreams of a third-world brotherhood : black women in early 1980s South Korean literature and film / Kyunghee Eo -- Between progression and regression : Ero film as cinema of retreat / Yun-Jong Lee -- Reciprocal assets : science fiction and democratization in 1980s South Korea / Sunyoung Park -- Afterword / Jin-Kyung Lee.
Summary
"An epoch-marking alliance of laborers, students, dissident intellectuals, and ordinary citizens was at the heart of South Korea's transformation from a dictatorship into a vibrant democracy during the 1980s. Collectively known as the minjung ("the people"), these agents of Korean democratization historically carved out an expanded role for civil society in the country's politics. In Revisiting Minjung, some of the foremost experts in 1980s Korean history, literature, film, art, and music provide new insights into one of the most crucial decades in South Korean history. Drawing from the theoretical perspectives of transnationalism, post-Marxist studies, intersectional feminism, popular culture studies, and more, the volume demonstrates how an era that is often associated with radical politics was, in effect, the catalyst for the subsequent flourishing of democratic and liberal values in South Korea. Revisiting Minjung brings new themes, new subjectivities, and new theoretical perspectives to the study of the rich ecosystem of 1980s Korean culture. Treated here is a wide array of topics, including the origins of minjung ideology, its critique by the right wing, minjung art and music, workers' literary culture, women writers and the resurgence of feminism, erotic cinema, science fiction, transnational political travels, and the representations of race and queerness in 1980s popular culture. The book thus details the origins and development of some of the movements that shape cultural life in South Korea today, and it does so through analyses that engage some of the most pressing debates in current scholarship in Korea and abroad"--
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9780472054121 paperback alkaline paper
0472054120 paperback alkaline paper
9780472074129 hardcover alkaline paper
0472074121 hardcover alkaline paper
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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