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

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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