[KS] The 65th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum

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The Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University are pleased to invite you to attend the 65th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on Tuesday, November 28th at 6:00 PM in Room 702 of New Millennium Hall at Yonsei University. The speaker is Helen Lee, Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature, University of Florida. The discussant is John Frankl, Assistant Professor of East Asian Literature, Underwood International College. The title of her talk is "Out of Sodesuka-shi, Creating Yobo-san: Cartooning the Korean Other in Japan’s Colonial Discourse." The abstract of her paper and a brief bio can be found at the end of this email.  
 The presentation will be followed by a dinner reception. I hope you will come to enjoy the presentation, discussion, and reception. Please contact Jennifer Bresnahan at 010-5441-9204, jennifer.bresnahan at gmail.com for further inquiries.  
 
Sincerely,  
Hyuk-Rae Kim
Professor of Korean StudiesDirector, Institute for Modern Korean Studies
GSIS, Yonsei University 
 



    
        
            
            Abstract:
            The emergence of racially fixed stereotypes involving both physical and mental traits stems from, and in turn helped shape, the European expansion of slavery, imperialism, and colonialism. Works by scholars including Michael Banton and Philip Curtin interrogate the European notion of race and investigate the process of racialization, a practice that was deployed by white expansionists to rationalize their unjustifiable exploitation and usurpation of people of color. As the only non-white imperial power emerging belatedly in the late nineteenth century, ’s construction of Koreans as racial Other manifests a unique mode of inscribing and seeing the image of savages. My paper employs the visual genre of manga, or cartoon, as a source to explore ’s colonial construction of Koreans and "Koreanness" in the early twentieth century. A rare illustrated text titled, Chosen manga (1909) provides a window through which we can begin to grasp the racial images of Koreans constructed by non-elite, unofficial sectors of Japanese population. The vacant and dull looking Korean characters not only ironically end up suggesting that both Japanese and Koreans belong to the same rank of backward civilization that struggles with importing and disseminating western standards of civilized culture, but also the collectivized images of idiocy in Koreans sets adverse tension against its text that delineates with abundant humor how Koreans are animated individuals engaged in eventful daily activities, and suggests their individuality and subjecthood.
            
            
        
    


 

Biography: 
 Helen Jeesung Lee is an Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature in the department of African and Asian Languages and Literature at the


University of

Florida .  She is working on a book manuscript, Popular Media and the Racialization of Koreans under Japanese Occupation, a work that explores Japan-Korea race relations during ’s imperial expansion (1868-1945).  Funded by the Korea Foundation's Fellowship for Field Research, she is currently conducting an archival research in

Seoul.
 

 
 
 


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