[KS] Book announcement: Mediating the South Korean Other

[David Oh]

Book announcement: Mediating the South Korean Other (University of Michigan Press)

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.

Chapter 1: Aspirational interraciality and desirable Whiteness: South Korean media depictions of interracial intimacies between White women and Korean men – Min Joo Lee

Chapter 2: Strategic blackness in South Korean television – Benjamin Han   

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                                  

Chapter 4: Narratives of marginalized others in migrant women: In South Korean films Rosa and Hello, Thuy –   Eunbi Lee & Colby Miyose

Chapter 5: The Japanese other and unhealed Korean-ness: The lingering impact of Japanese colonialism on the past and present – Russell Edwards

Chapter 6: “Truth? No one cares about the truth”: On marginalized identities and belonging in The Bacchus Lady – Myoung-Sun Song

Chapter 7: Staging North Korean defectors: Uncharted borders, ideological disorientation, and Korean diaspora – Miseong Woo 

Chapter 8: Enemy of the state: Cold War rhetoric and representation of North Korea/ns in Hallyu films  – JongHwa Lee 

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 

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

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:www.press.umich.edu/11938487 <http://www.press.umich.edu/11938487>).

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David C. Oh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication Arts
Ramapo College of New Jersey

“Mediating the South Korean Other: Representations and Discourses of Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation-State" (Editor, 2022, University of Michigan Press) 
“Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure & White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture” (2022, Rutgers University Press) 
“Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media: Diasporic Identifications” (2015, Lexington Books)

Fulbright Alumni Ambassador
Fulbright Scholar, South Korea, 2018-19

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