The making of minjung : democracy and the politics of representation in South Korea /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lee, Namhee
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Political participation > Korea (South) > History. Political culture > Korea (South) > History. Social movements > Korea (South) > History. Student movements > Korea (South) > History. Democratization > Korea (South) > History. Korea (South) > Politics and government > 1960-1988.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : minjung, history, and historical subjectivity
The construction of minjung
Anticommunism and North Korea
Anti-Americanism and chuch'e sasang
The undonggwŏn as a counterpublic sphere
Between indeterminacy and radical critique : madanggŭk, ritual, and protest
The alliance between labor and intellectuals
"To be reborn as revolutionary workers" : Gramscian fusion and Leninist vanguardism
The subject as the subjected : intellectuals and workers in labor literature
Conclusion : the minjung movement as history.