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The Making of Modern Subjects : Public Discourses on Korean Female Spectators in the Early Twentieth Century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gang, Sung Un.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Gender, Diversity, and Culture in History and Politics Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Note on Romanization and Translation
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The Question of Colonial Publicness and Theaters
  • Intersectional Spectatorship of Colonial Korean Women
  • Dissecting the Silence of Korean Female Audiences
  • Historical Discourse Analysis: Sources and Methods
  • Overview of Chapters
  • 1. Conditions of Korean Women's Playgoing
  • 1.1 Women's Spectatorship during the Choson Dynasty
  • Confucian Visual Culture
  • Choson Women's Spectating of Processions
  • 1.2 Women's Playgoing during the Korean Empire
  • Seoul's Playhouses
  • Material Conditions of Theatergoing in the 1900s
  • The Gendered Interpellation of the Audience
  • 2. Korean Women and Charity Concerts
  • 2.1 Building a Nation through Donation
  • Independence Gate
  • National Debt Repayment Movement
  • 2.2 Audiences and Playhouses: Destabilizers of the Nation
  • Apathetic Audiences: The Privileged
  • Endangered Hope: Male Students
  • "Lewd Women and Prodigal Men"
  • 2.3 Embodying the Philanthropy: Politics of Charity Concerts
  • Seoul's Charity Concerts between 1906 and 1910
  • Diverse Interests behind Charity Concerts
  • Kisaeng Women's Interest in Charity Projects
  • Kibu Men's Interest in Charity Concerts
  • The Residency‐General's Interest in Charity Projects
  • Sermons and Stones Targeting Audiences
  • The Question of Women's Agency at Charity Concerts
  • 3. Social Education in Korean Theaters
  • 3.1 Theater's Role in Colonial Social Education
  • "Social Education (shakai kyōiku)" in the Japanese Debate
  • Theater and Social Education (1): Education Using New Media
  • Theater and Social Education (2): Compensating for Koreans' "Uncouth Nature"
  • 3.2 How to Watch Shinp'a: Expectations of Cultural Assimilation
  • Maeil Shinbo's Promotion of Korean Shinp'a
  • The Cuckoo: Enforcing the Cultural Technique of Beholding.
  • The Tears: Disciplining Female Audiences
  • 3.3 How to Behave in Theaters: Discipline and Negotiation
  • Foucauldian Concepts of Discipline and Subjectification
  • The Penetrating Gaze: Maeil Shinbo's Role in Disciplining Process
  • Negotiating Social Norms (1): Gendered Segregation
  • Negotiating Social Norms (2): Social Strata and Classes
  • 4. Female Students and Romantic Movies
  • 4.1 Western Romantic Movies and Korean Female Students
  • Korean Cinema Culture in the 1920s
  • Kissing Scenes in Romantic Movies
  • Female Students: Controversies and Agency
  • 4.2 Redefining Marriage and Intimacy
  • Influences of Eugenics and Social Darwinism
  • Influence of Ellen Key
  • The Boom of Love (yŏnae)
  • Discussing "Eugenic Marriage" in the Late 1920s
  • 4.3 Women's Moviegoing in the Context of Eugenic Marriage
  • Politics of Gender in the Eugenic Discourse
  • Maternal Health and Moviegoing
  • Stories Untold
  • 5. A Doll's House and Interventions into Women's Spectatorship
  • 5.1 A Doll's House in Colonial Korea
  • A Brief Trajectory of A Doll's House
  • Recasting Gender: A Doll's House and the Japanese New Theater
  • The Korean Reception of A Doll's House
  • 5.2 Affirmative Commentaries: A Doll's House as a Pedagogical Play
  • Individualism for National Independence
  • Nora as a Figure of Anti‐Colonial Individualism
  • 5.3 Rejective Commentaries: Nora of Chosŏn and the Question of True Awakening
  • "To Nora": Annulling Emancipatory Messages
  • Awakening of Love: The Feared Power of the Theater Performance
  • The Wife of the Incompetent Man: The Fall of Korean Nora
  • 5.4 Affirmative‐Critical Commentaries of Korean Socialists
  • Socialist Views on the Inequality of Korean Women
  • Nora's Awakening as a Socialist (1): Why She Left the Doll's House
  • Nora's Awakening as a Socialist (2): Vega
  • 5.5 Feminist Commentaries.
  • A Gendered Silence Surrounding A Doll's House
  • Reenacting Nora's Declaration: Na Hyesok's Emancipatory Commentaries
  • Nora and Ibsen as Role Models for Feminist Activism
  • Female Audiences' Applause
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Rediscovering Korean Women as Spectators of Colonial Korea
  • Creating Ruptures in the Gendered Subjectification Process: Korean Female Spectators' Audience Publicness
  • Contribution of This Study
  • 7. Selected Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Newspapers
  • Magazines
  • Primary Sources: Online Database
  • Primary Sources: Anthologies, Books, Texts, and Films
  • Secondary Sources
  • 8. Glossary (in Korean alphabetical order)
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures.

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