The Melodrama of Mobility : : Women, Talk, and Class in Contemporary South Korea / / Nancy Abelmann.
How do people make sense of their world in the face of the breakneck speed of contemporary social change? Through the lives and narratives of eight women, The Melodrama of Mobility chronicles South Korea's experience of just such dizzyingly rapid development. Abelmann captures the mood, feeling...
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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: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2003 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- 1. INTRODUCTION: The Melodrama of Mobility
- 2. THE EIGHT WOMEN
- 3. KEY WORDS
- 4. CLASS WORK: Education Stories
- 5. SOCIAL MOBILITY: "Facts" and "Fictions"
- 6. PERSONALITY SPEAKING
- 7. GENDERING DISPLACEMENT. Men, Masculinity, and the Nation
- 8. ALL IN THE FAMILY: Class Distances and Divides
- 9. WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE
- 10. CONCLUSION: Living Through Compressed Modernity
- CODA
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR