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<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Dear
Koreanists,</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">It is my pleasure to announce my first monograph,
entitled <b><i>The Making of Modern Subjects: Public Discourses
on Korean Female Spectators in the Early Twentieth Century </i></b>(transcript
2024). For this book, I conducted a historical discourse
analysis of sources including Korean newspapers, magazines, and
fiction from the 1890s to the 1930s to understand the complex
negotiation process surrounding women’s public presence and gaze
in the context of modernization, colonization, and women’s
liberation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">The book encompasses the history of playhouses and
movie theaters in Seoul, women’s charity events in playhouses,
colonial attempts at (gendered) cultural assimilation through
theaters, female students’ moviegoing, and the gendered silence
surrounding Henrik Ibsen’s drama <i>A Doll’s House</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">It is the first book-length study on Korean women’s
spectatorship during the early twentieth century and fills a
research gap in the debates on colonial publicness (particularly
audience publicness) and intersectional spectatorship in
postcolonial film and theater studies. This book can be useful
for a wide spectrum of studies and courses, including Korean
studies, women’s history, cultural history, postcolonial
studies, gender studies, media studies, and urban studies, to
name but a few.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">The book is available both in print and online
(Open Access), so you can <b>download it for free</b>.</span></p>
<ul>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Print:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6929-9/the-making-of-modern-subjects/">https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6929-9/the-making-of-modern-subjects/</a></span></li>
<li> <span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Open
Access:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6929-9/the-making-of-modern-subjects/?number=978-3-8394-6929-3">https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6929-9/the-making-of-modern-subjects/?number=978-3-8394-6929-3</a></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">I will be glad to give book talks and lectures to
discuss my findings with you and your students. Review copies
are available, too. Please feel free to contact me via <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:s.gang@tu-berlin.de">s.gang@tu-berlin.de</a>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Best,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Sung Un Gang</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">--</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Synopsis</span><b><i><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">The Making of Modern Subjects: Public
Discourses on Korean Female Spectators in the Early
Twentieth Century</span></i></b><span
style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">In the early 20th century, Korean women began to
manifest themselves in the public sphere. Sung Un Gang explores
how the women's gaze was reimagined in public discourse as they
attended plays and movies, delving into the complex negotiation
process surrounding women's public presence. In this first
extensive study of Korean female spectators in the colonial era,
he analyzes newspapers, magazines, fictions, and images, arguing
that public discourse aimed to mold them into a male-driven and
top-down modernization project. Through a meticulous examination
of historical sources, this study reconceptualizes colonial
Korean female spectators as diverse, active agents with their
own politics who played a crucial role in shaping colonial
publicness.</span></p>
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lang="EN-US"><br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"><font size="2">--
Sung Un Gang (he/him)
CRC 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces"
Technische Universität Berlin
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1, 10587 Berlin
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://sfb1265.de/en/people/sung-un-gang/">https://sfb1265.de/en/people/sung-un-gang/</a>
New Book: The Making of Modern Subjects.
Public Discourses on Korean Female Spectators in the Early Twentieth Century
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6929-9">https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6929-9</a></font></pre>
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