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Representations of femininity in contemporary South Korean women's literature /

Discusses perceptions of 'femininity' in contemporary South Korea and the extent to which fictional representations in South Korean women's fiction of the 1990s challenges the enduring association of the feminine with domesticity, docility and passivity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elfving-Hwang, Joanna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Folkestone : Global Oriental, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Critical Intersections
  • Scope of this Book
  • Philosophical Origins of Conceptualizing Femininity in Korea
  • Virtuous Femininity
  • Self and Other in Korea
  • Enduring Myths about the Feminine
  • Early Modern Women Writers
  • Discourse of Femininity in Post-war Literature
  • Nation as a Community of Men
  • Women Writers of the 1990's
  • Un Huigyong
  • Chon Kyongnin
  • Ha Songnan
  • Narrating the Feminine Subject
  • Critical Reception of the 1990's Women's Fiction
  • Romanticized Housewives
  • Domestic within the Contemporary Symbolic
  • Inauthenticity of Domestic Femininity
  • Rewriting the Domestic Plot
  • Femininity as a Function of the Domestic
  • Domesticity as Confinement
  • Rethinking Contemporary Domestic Femininity
  • Mother-daughter Relationships
  • Un-motherly Mothers
  • Collective 'Motherlessness'
  • Subverting the Maternal Myth
  • Beyond the Sacrificial Maternal Feminine
  • Passive Commodities
  • Passive Bodies
  • Objects of Desire
  • Active Sexualities
  • Reimaging Female Sexualities?
  • Mirror Realities
  • Feminine Excess
  • Poetics of Death
  • Open-ended Feminine
  • Final Thoughts.