[KS] [New book] The Making of Modern Subjects: Public Discourses on Korean Female Spectators in the Early Twentieth Century

[Sung Un Gang]

Dear Koreanists,

It is my pleasure to announce my first monograph, entitled */The Making 
of Modern Subjects: Public Discourses on Korean Female Spectators in the 
Early Twentieth Century /*(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.

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 /A 
Doll’s House/.

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.

The book is available both in print and online (Open Access), so you can 
*download it for free*.

  * Print:
    https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6929-9/the-making-of-modern-subjects/
  * Open Access:
    https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6929-9/the-making-of-modern-subjects/?number=978-3-8394-6929-3

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 s.gang at tu-berlin.de.

Best,

Sung Un Gang

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Synopsis*/
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*/The Making of Modern Subjects: Public Discourses on Korean Female 
Spectators in the Early Twentieth Century/*

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.


-- Sung Un Gang (he/him) CRC 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces" Technische 
Universität Berlin Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1, 10587 Berlin 
https://sfb1265.de/en/people/sung-un-gang/ New Book: The Making of 
Modern Subjects. Public Discourses on Korean Female Spectators in the 
Early Twentieth Century https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6929-9
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