Prof. Todd Henry

Deptartment 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 ethno nationalism. The presentation also considers the subversive practices of "shadow-reading" 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, Department of History, American Studies and Ethnicity, The One Archives, and the East Asian Studies Center

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