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Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics and History

Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics and History

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Series: Asia's Transformations

General ArtGeneral Political ScienceKorean History

ISBN10: 041585752X
ISBN13: 9780415857529
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 7 2013
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive relations in the construction of Korean nationalism. By linking concepts of visual spectacle, urban space and governmentality, this book explores how such notions made the nation imaginable to the public in both the past and the present; how they represented a new modality of seeing for the state and contributed to the shaping of collective identities in colonial and postcolonial Korea. The author further examines how their different modes were associated with the change in governmentality in Korea. In addressing these questions, the book interprets the politics behind the culture of displays and shows both the continuity and the transformation of spectacles as a governing technology in twentieth-century Korea. Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism is a significant contribution to a study of the politics of visual culture in colonial and postcolonial Korea.

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