The Making of Modern Subjects : : Public Discourses on Korean Female Spectators in the Early Twentieth Century.

• Superior document: Gender, Diversity, and Culture in History and Politics Series
• Author: Gang, Sung Un.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Gender, Diversity, and Culture in History and Politics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (339 pages)

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 -- Recasting Gender: A Doll's House and the Japanese New Theater -- The Korean Reception of A Doll's House -- 5.2 Affirmative Commentaries: A Doll's House as a Pedagogical Play -- Individualism for National Independence -- Nora as a Figure of Anti‐Colonial Individualism -- 5.3 Rejective Commentaries: Nora of Chosŏn and the Question of True Awakening -- "To Nora": Annulling Emancipatory Messages -- Awakening of Love: The Feared Power of the Theater Performance -- The Wife of the Incompetent Man: The Fall of Korean Nora -- 5.4 Affirmative‐Critical Commentaries of Korean Socialists -- Socialist Views on the Inequality of Korean Women -- Nora's Awakening as a Socialist (1): Why She Left the Doll's House -- Nora's Awakening as a Socialist (2): Vega -- 5.5 Feminist Commentaries.

A Gendered Silence Surrounding A Doll's House -- Reenacting Nora's Declaration: Na Hyesok's Emancipatory Commentaries -- Nora and Ibsen as Role Models for Feminist Activism -- Female Audiences' Applause -- 6. Conclusion -- Rediscovering Korean Women as Spectators of Colonial Korea -- Creating Ruptures in the Gendered Subjectification Process: Korean Female Spectators' Audience Publicness -- Contribution of This Study -- 7. Selected Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Newspapers -- Magazines -- Primary Sources: Online Database -- Primary Sources: Anthologies, Books, Texts, and Films -- Secondary Sources -- 8. Glossary (in Korean alphabetical order) -- List of Tables -- List of Figures.