Thursday, November 16, 2017 4pm to 6pm
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3502 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Prof. Todd Henry
Dept. of History,
UC San Diego
Part of larger book project, this presentation examines the role that newspaper weeklies (chuganji) played in establishing the normative boundaries of cultural
citizenship in Cold War South Korea. A particular focus is on the ideological work that textual and visual representations of female homoeroticism did in entertaining a variety of audiences as part of "mass dictatorship,” while simultaneously imbuing them with the developmentalist ideologies of hetero-patriarchy and ethnonationalism. The presentation also considers the subversive practices of "shadowreading" women as well as the contradictory function of the mass media in facilitating gynocentric communities and other queer life paths under an illiberal regime of capitalist accumulation.
Sponsored by: USC Korean Humanities Group, Dept. of History, American Studies and Ethnicity, One Archives, and the East Asian Studies Center
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