The Making of Minjung : : Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea / / Namhee Lee.

In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history of the minjung ("common people's") movement in South Korea, Namhee Lee shows how the movement arose in the 1970s and 1980s in response to the repressive authoritarian regime and grew out of a widespread sense that the nation's &q...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 11 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Romanization and Translation
  • Introduction: Minjung, History, and Historical Subjectivity
  • Part I. The Crisis of Historical Subjectivity
  • 1. The Construction of Minjung
  • 2. Anticommunism and North Korea
  • 3. Anti-Americanism and Chuch'e Sasang
  • Part II. Building a Counterpublic Sphere
  • 4. The Undongkwon as a Counterpublic Sphere
  • 5. Between Indeterminacy and Radical Critique: Madangguk, Ritual, and Protest
  • 6. The Alliance between Labor and Intellectuals
  • Part III. The Politics of Representation
  • 7. "To Be Reborn as Revolutionary Workers": Gramscian Fusion and Leninist Vanguardism
  • 8. The Subject as the Subjected: Intellectuals and Workers in Labor Literature
  • Conclusion: The Minjung Movement as History
  • Bibliography
  • Index