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[Commlist] Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century

Fri Nov 26 14:21:59 GMT 2021



We would like to announce a new publication from Duke University Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Hegemonic Mimicry***

Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century

*Kyung Hyun Kim***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478014492/hegemonic-mimicry/ <https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478014492/hegemonic-mimicry/>_*

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“/Hegemonic Mimicry/presents a much-needed update on today’s South Korean pop culture—one of the most fascinating epicenters of global cultural flows. Presenting a probing insight into a wide spectrum of media productions, it is bound to be a must-read for those hoping capture symptomatic signs of the new millennium.”*—Suk-Young Kim, author of **/K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance/*

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“/Hegemonic Mimicry/provides insightful, critical analyses of Korean cultural products explored through a variety of lenses: national identity, transnationalism, convergence, social class, Confucianism, simulacra, and cynicism. Unlike many previous studies, Kyung Hyun Kim is very effective in theorizing developments in hallyu and its global proliferation. Anyone interested in contemporary Korean culture will learn a lot from this book and enjoy Kim’s ability to connect ideas and events in brilliant new ways.”*—Roald Maliangkay, author of **/Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea’s Central Folksong Traditions/***

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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 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 Korean-ness 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 leapt 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.

*Kyung Hyun Kim*is Professor in East Asian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, author of /Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era/and /The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema/, and coeditor of /The Korean Popular Culture Reader/, all also published by Duke University Press.



*Duke University Press | November 2021 | 328pp | 9781478014492 | PB | £20.99**

*Price subject to change.

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