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The Making of Minjung : Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (366 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801461699
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Making of MinjungDDC classification:
  • 320.95195
LOC classification:
  • JQ1729.A15 -- L44 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Romanization and Translation -- Introduction: Minjung, History, and Historical Subjectivity -- Part I. The Crisis of Historical Subjectivity -- 1. The Construction of Minjung -- 2. Anticommunism and North Korea -- 3. Anti-Americanism and Chuch'e Sasang -- Part II. Building a Counterpublic Sphere -- 4. The Undongkwon as a Counterpublic Sphere -- 5. Between Indeterminacy and Radical Critique: Madangguk, Ritual, and Protest -- 6. The Alliance between Labor and Intellectuals -- Part III. The Politics of Representation -- 7. "To Be Reborn as Revolutionary Workers": Gramscian Fusion and Leninist Vanguardism -- 8. The Subject as the Subjected: Intellectuals and Workers in Labor Literature -- Conclusion: The Minjung Movement as History -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "This book is the best, and virtually the only, political ethnography of South Korean antigovernment political activism by students and intellectuals during the 1980s."--Korean Studies.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Romanization and Translation -- Introduction: Minjung, History, and Historical Subjectivity -- Part I. The Crisis of Historical Subjectivity -- 1. The Construction of Minjung -- 2. Anticommunism and North Korea -- 3. Anti-Americanism and Chuch'e Sasang -- Part II. Building a Counterpublic Sphere -- 4. The Undongkwon as a Counterpublic Sphere -- 5. Between Indeterminacy and Radical Critique: Madangguk, Ritual, and Protest -- 6. The Alliance between Labor and Intellectuals -- Part III. The Politics of Representation -- 7. "To Be Reborn as Revolutionary Workers": Gramscian Fusion and Leninist Vanguardism -- 8. The Subject as the Subjected: Intellectuals and Workers in Labor Literature -- Conclusion: The Minjung Movement as History -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This book is the best, and virtually the only, political ethnography of South Korean antigovernment political activism by students and intellectuals during the 1980s."--Korean Studies.

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