140 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
140 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines the politics of Japanese language learning in postcolonial Korea from 1945 through the 1970s, revealing the ways in which language functioned as a site of negotiations over identity, social mobility, and historical memory.
By tracing how Japanese continued to circulate in specific social fields, shaping and being shaped by gendered and classed subject positions, this book... Read more
1. Introduction: Echoes of empire in postcolonial Korea 2. Constructing a legitimate language: The Korean Standardization Movement from 1945 through the 1950s 3. Gender and the Japanese-learning boom in the 1960s and 1970s 4. From the national language to a foreign language: The evolution of Japanese language education in the 1970s 5. The politics of representation: The right to the right name 6. Epilogue: Multiple temporalities of colonial history
Biography
Jinsuk Yang is Associate Professor in the Institute of Sustainable System Sciences at Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan.
