Mediating the South Korean Other : Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-state

Oh, David C.

ISBN 10: 0472075454 / ISBN 13: 9780472075454

Published by University of Michigan Press, 2022

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Synopsis:

Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal, global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The Korean ethnoscape and mediascape produce a complex understanding of difference that cannot be easily reduced to racism or ethnocentrism. Indeed the Korean word, injongchabyeol, often translated as racism, refers to discrimination based on any kind of “human category.” Explaining Korea’s relationship to difference and its practices of othering, including in media culture, requires new language and nuance in English-language scholarship.

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 more nuanced 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.

About the Author: David C. Oh is Associate Professor of Communication Arts at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mediating the South Korean Other : ...
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New