The New (Korean) Wave: A Global Social Mobility Story - Please Look After Mom

• 발행기관: 한국학술연구원
• 저자명: Nancy Abelmann Jeongsu Shin
• 간행물 정보: 『Korea Observer』Vol 43, No 3, 399~418쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 정치외교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.09.30

영문 초록

In this article we examine Shin Kyung-Sook’s international bestseller Please Look After Mom as a South Korean “New Wave” cultural product. We appreciate the novel as a very particular kind of culture drenched product - although not of the “traditional” variety. We take up both the Korean and English language discussions of the work’s enormous success, which focus on both the book’s particularistic and universalistic appeal. We argue instead for a cultural particularism and universalism of a different variety: not traditional Korean culture or the universal appeal of motherhood sentimentalism, but rather cosmopolitan striving. We examine the novel as an account of educational and maternal striving and consider its global popularity in that light.

목차

Abstact

I. Introduction

II. Korean Language Criticism

III. English Language Criticism

IV. Cosmopolitan Striving

V. A Far-Away Tiny Country

VI. Family Takes

VII. A Mother’s Own Desire

VIII. A Final Image

IX. The Last Word

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키워드

Korean Wave Literature Cosmopolitanism Education Motherhood Cultural Proximity