The Making of Modern Subjects

Sung Un Gang

ISBN 10: 3837669297 / ISBN 13: 9783837669299

Published by Transcript Verlag Feb 2024, 2024

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Neuware -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. 338 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of Modern Subjects
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag Feb 2024
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837669297
• ISBN 13: 9783837669299
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

Under Japanese colonial rule in the early 20th century, Korean women began to expand their realm from the domestic to the public sphere. Sung Un Gang examines how the women's gaze was reimagined in public discourse as they began attending plays and movies, and investigates the complex negotiation process surrounding women's public presence. As the first extensive study of Korean female spectators of the colonial era, it analyses newspapers, magazines, fictions, and images and argues that public discourse aimed to mold them into a male-driven and top-down modernization project. This study reconceptualizes colonial Korean female spectators as diverse active agents with their own politics.

About the Author

Sung Un Gang is a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Architecture and the Collaborative Research Centre 1265 »Re-Figuration of Spaces« at Technische Universität Berlin. He earned his doctoral degree in Theater and Media Studies from Universität zu Köln. His works focus on the intersections of social minority and space, postcolonial historiography of East Asia, and the Asian diaspora in Germany.