Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Contemporary Korean Culture from the Edge

Transgression, Innovation, and Intimacy

Av Jooyeon Rhee, Hong Kal, Thomas R. Klassen

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Beskrivning

This book is for any reader seeking to understand and engage with contemporary South Korean culture. Inspired by the term “edge”, which in Korean refers to attitudes and ideas that are new, gripping and transgressive, each chapter provides a new perspective on today’s Korea.Drawing from a range perspectives, Contemporary Korean Culture from the Edge: Transgression, Innovation, and Intimacy examines Korean culture (including food, music, fashion, K-pop, cinema and much more) as twenty-first century global phenomenon. The book highlights unique features of Korean culture such as the role of astrology in K-pop fandom, feminist art, and recent fiction, poetry, and drama. In uncovering underrepresented areas of modern Korea, the chapters pay attention to lesser known but important aspects, such as the country’s astonishingly dynamic urban architecture. By casting a wide net, and including bottom-up cultural movements, such as protest art, the book reveals the rich and critical role that art, music, and literature play in Korea.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-08-20
Mått: 156 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt: 540 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 268
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781666965544

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Hong Kal is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Art and Art History at York University. She is the author of Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, Politics, and History (2011). Jooyeon Rhee is Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. She is the author of The Novel in Transition: Gender and Literature in Early Colonial Korea (2019).Thomas R. Klassen is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is co-editor of North Korea: Translation and Transformation in a Global Context (2024).

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“Contemporary Korean Culture from the Edge provides a solid, timely, and multidisciplinary overview of contemporary South Korea’s cultural landscape. By organizing its exploration around the fluid concepts of transgression, innovation, and intimacy, the volume effectively moves beyond simple binaries to examine the nation’s cultural shifts since the early 2000s. From K-pop’s hybridity to protest art and 'healing' TV drama, the chapters offer clear, well-contextualized case studies. This volume is a valuable and cohesive guide to the social, political, and artistic forces shaping Korea today.”

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