Korea Lecture Series: Perspectives On Korean Modernity – Naming and Appearances of ‘Woman’: Gender, Modernity, and Censorship in Colonial Korea

Korea Lecture Series: Perspectives On Korean Modernity -- Naming and Appearances of ‘Woman’: Gender, Modernity, and Censorship in Colonial Korea

Kyeong-Hee Choi - Assistant Professor in Modern Korean Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Monday, March 20, 2006 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Room 217A, Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS) See map
320 York Street
New Haven, CT 6511

This paper examines “woman,” the term itself, and the ways in which the topics regarding women were used in colonial Korean publications from the 1920s and 30s. With a view to exploring a colonially refracted trajectory of representing women in modern Korea, it discusses the inseparability of the salient appearances of “woman” in publications from the complex consequences of censorship, arguing that a study of representations of modern gender in Korea should include a methodological consideration of the dynamics of colonial censorship and counter-censorship strategies deployed by producers of publications.

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