Mediating the South Korean other: representations and discourses of difference in the post/neocolonial nation-state

"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. Anthroca...

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Other Authors: Oh, David C. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press [2022]
Series:Perspectives on contemporary Korea
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Summary:"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 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"--
Physical Description:viii, 246 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:9780472055456
9780472075454

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