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Hegemonic Mimicry - Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Hegemonic Mimicry - Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global
success of Korean popular culture-the Korean wave of pop music,
cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu-from a
transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of
mimicry to think through hallyu's adaptation of American
sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of
Korean popular culture has upended the familiar dynamic of
major-to-minor cultural influence, enabling hallyu to become a
dominant global cultural phenomenon. At the same time, its
worldwide popularity has rendered its Koreanness opaque. Kim argues
that Korean cultural subjectivity over the past two decades is one
steeped in ethnic rather than national identity. Explaining how
South Korea leaped over the linguistic and cultural walls
surrounding a supposedly "minor" culture to achieve global
ascendance, Kim positions K-pop, Korean cinema and television
serials, and even electronics as transformative acts of
reappropriation that have created a hegemonic global ethnic
identity.
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