[천정환, 이혜령 교수 집필] Revisiting Minjung: New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea 출간
- 국어국문학과
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- 2019-08-19
우리 학과의 천정환, 이혜령 교수가 필진으로 참여한 영문 단행본 Revisiting Minjung: New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea(2019.5.)이 미국 미시건대학교 출판부에서 출간되었다. 1980년대 한국 민중문학 및 민중문화 운동의 성격을 규명한 이 책은 남캘리포니아대학(USC)의 박선영 교수가 책임편집했으며, 미국에서 활동하는 관련분야의 한국학자들과 한국의 주요 연구자들이 참여하였다. 전세계적으로 관심이 높아지고 있는 한국의 저항문화, 민중문화 연구에 중요한 전기가 되리라 생각된다. 두 분의 기고 논문은 다음과 같다.
Jung-Hwan Cheon, "Where Have All the “Shouting Stones” Gone? South Korean Workers’ Literary Clubs and Labor Literature, 1970s–1990s 129”
Hye-Ryoung Lee, "Bright Constellation: The Rise and Significance of Women’s Liberation Literature in 1980s South Korea”
https://www.press.umich.edu/10027900/revisiting_minjung
[책소개]
An epoch-marking alliance of laborers, students, dissident intellectuals, and ordinary citizens was at the heart of South Korea’s transformation from a dictatorship into a vibrant democracy during the 1980s. Collectively known as the minjung (“the people”), these agents of Korean democratization historically carved out an expanded role for civil society in the country’s politics. In Revisiting Minjung, some of the foremost experts in 1980s Korean history, literature, film, art, and music provide new insights into one of the most crucial decades in South Korean history. Drawing from the theoretical perspectives of transnationalism, post-Marxist studies, intersectional feminism, popular culture studies, and more, the volume demonstrates how an era that is often associated with radical politics was, in effect, the catalyst for the subsequent flourishing of democratic and liberal values in South Korea.
Revisiting Minjung brings new themes, new subjectivities, and new theoretical perspectives to the study of the rich ecosystem of 1980s Korean culture. Treated here is a wide array of topics, including the origins of minjung ideology, its critique by the right wing, minjung art and music, workers’ literary culture, women writers and the resurgence of feminism, erotic cinema, science fiction, transnational political travels, and the representations of race and queerness in 1980s popular culture. The book thus details the origins and development of some of the movements that shape cultural life in South Korea today, and it does so through analyses that engage some of the most pressing debates in current scholarship in Korea and abroad.