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The making of modern subjects : Public discourses on Korean female spectators in the early twentieth century /

Under Japanese colonial rule in the early 20th century, Korean women began to expand their realm from the domestic to the public sphere. Sung Un Gang examines how the women's gaze was reimagined in public discourse as they began attending plays and movies, and investigates the complex negotiati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gang, Sung Un
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag 2024.
Series:Gender, Diversity and Culture in History and Politics.
Subjects:
Women > Korea > History > 20th century.
Women > Korea > Social conditions.
Women > Korea > Public opinion.
Femmes > Corée > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > Corée > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Corée > Opinion publique.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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