Reckoning with the World: South Korean Television and the Latin American Imaginary
Autor Benjamin M. Hanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 feb 2026
Historical dramas like The Land of Humans, about Korean migrants in Mexico, consider diasporic identity and nationalism, while the fantasy series Secret Garden explores issues of modernity. In addition, the TV drama Encounter and the entertainment show Traveler contrast the cultures of global Korea with Cuba. As these programs create appealing storytelling, characters, and aesthetics, they inspire and resonate with audiences and fans across the globe. However, Korean television’s imaginary of Latin America is not about its investment in fostering greater interculturality with Latin American nations and their cultures but instead projects a façade of progressive racial and cultural politics shaping Korea’s reckoning with the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781439923252
ISBN-10: 1439923256
Pagini: 214
Ilustrații: 11 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
ISBN-10: 1439923256
Pagini: 214
Ilustrații: 11 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
Recenzii
“South Korea and Latin America are major players in the international trade in TV drama, beyond its Anglo domination. They have also intersected with one another’s imaginaries, initially through migrant labor and businesses, and later via television exchanges. Ben Han navigates this complex terrain in a subtle, supple, brilliant way, as personal experience, political economy, and textual analysis meet up. Bravo!”— Toby Miller, Profesor Distinguido at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, and author of The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture
“Han offers an incisive analysis of contemporary South Korean television productions that construct Latin America as a monolithic ‘Other’ to assert South Korea’s status as an exceptional non-Western, postcolonial nation. Through a sophisticated engagement with cultural criticism and theories from Latin American, Asian, and Asian–Latin American studies, this book exposes the tensions within South Korea’s pursuit of worldliness and multiculturalism as a national project. Reckoning with the World is an eye-opening read.”— Paula Park, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies at Rice University, and author of Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898–1964
“Han offers an incisive analysis of contemporary South Korean television productions that construct Latin America as a monolithic ‘Other’ to assert South Korea’s status as an exceptional non-Western, postcolonial nation. Through a sophisticated engagement with cultural criticism and theories from Latin American, Asian, and Asian–Latin American studies, this book exposes the tensions within South Korea’s pursuit of worldliness and multiculturalism as a national project. Reckoning with the World is an eye-opening read.”— Paula Park, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies at Rice University, and author of Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898–1964
Notă biografică
Benjamin M. Han is Associate Professor in the Department of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Beyond the Black and White TV: Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America and the coeditor of Korean Pop Culture beyond Asia: Race and Reception.