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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461332503321

Autore

Kal Hong

Titolo

Aesthetic constructions of Korean nationalism : spectacle, politics and history / / Hong Kal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-12684-2

9786613126849

1-136-71933-4

0-203-81604-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

Asia's transformations ; ; 34

Disciplina

320.5409519

Soggetti

Nationalism - Korea - History - 20th century

Exhibitions - Korea - History - 20th century

Arts - Political aspects - Korea - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Modernity, colonial expositions and the city -- pt. 2. Korean nationalism and postcolonial exhibitions.

Sommario/riassunto

While most studies on Korean nationalism centre on textual analysis, Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism offers a different approach. It looks at expositions, museums and the urban built environment at particular moments in both colonial and postcolonial eras and analyses their discursive relations in the construction of Korean nationalism. By linking concepts of visual spectacle, urban space and governmentality, this book explores how such notions made the nation imaginable to the public in both the past and the present; how they represented a new modality of seeing for