<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Book announcement: Mediating the South Korean Other (University of Michigan Press)</div><br class="">With apologies for cross-listing and shameless self-promotion, I would like to announce a book I have edited, which is titled “Mediating the South Korean Other: Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State.” The book brings together established and emerging critical scholars of Korean media culture and othering of racial, ethnic, and co-ethnic others. The book includes the following contributions.<br class=""><br class="">Chapter 1: Aspirational interraciality and desirable Whiteness: South Korean media depictions of interracial intimacies between White women and Korean men – Min Joo Lee<br class=""><br class="">Chapter 2: Strategic blackness in South Korean television – Benjamin Han <br class=""><br class="">Chapter 3: The televised Korean Dream: The Birth of a Great Star and racial/ethnic diversity in the survival audition program in South Korea – Ji-Hyun Ahn <br class=""><br class="">Chapter 4: Narratives of marginalized others in migrant women: In South Korean films Rosa and Hello, Thuy – Eunbi Lee & Colby Miyose<br class=""><br class="">Chapter 5: The Japanese other and unhealed Korean-ness: The lingering impact of Japanese colonialism on the past and present – Russell Edwards<br class=""><br class="">Chapter 6: “Truth? No one cares about the truth”: On marginalized identities and belonging in The Bacchus Lady – Myoung-Sun Song<br class=""><br class="">Chapter 7: Staging North Korean defectors: Uncharted borders, ideological disorientation, and Korean diaspora – Miseong Woo <br class=""><br class="">Chapter 8: Enemy of the state: Cold War rhetoric and representation of North Korea/ns in Hallyu films – JongHwa Lee <br class=""><br class="">Chapter 9: Reframing the difference of co-ethnic other in Japan: An analysis of representations and identifications in the South Korean documentary film Uri-Hakkyo – Min Wha Han <br class=""><br class="">Chapter 10: The other at home: A comparative analysis of coverage of an exiled Korean American K-pop star in mainstream Korean and diasporic Korean news media – Alice N. Kim & Sherry S. Yu<br class=""><br class="">It is currently available for pre-order with the University of Michigan Press. For anyone interested, the paperback version of the book costs $34.95, and there is a 30 percent discount with the code UMF22 on the press’s website (http:<a href="http://www.press.umich.edu/11938487" class="">www.press.umich.edu/11938487</a>).<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">---<br class=""><br class="">David C. Oh, Ph.D.<br class="">Associate Professor of Communication Arts<br class="">Ramapo College of New Jersey<br class=""><br class="">“Mediating the South Korean Other: Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State" (Editor, 2022, University of Michigan Press) <br class="">“Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure & White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture” (2022, Rutgers University Press) <br class="">“Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media: Diasporic Identifications” (2015, Lexington Books)<br class=""><br class="">Fulbright Alumni Ambassador<br class="">Fulbright Scholar, South Korea, 2018-19<br class=""></div>
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