Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbang

ISBN-13: 9780367143589 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 102 str.

Hyesu Park

Opis

This book sheds light on the aspects of the Korean Wave and Korean media products less discussed — Korean literature, webtoon, and mukbang. It explores the making of these Korean popular cultural products and how they work and engage media recipients regardless of their different national, cultural, and geographical backgrounds.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Korean Literature Wave: Transcultural and Transnational Reading of The Vegetarian and Bad Friend 2. Korean Webtoon Wave: Narratological, Technological, and Medial Innovations of Korean Digital Comics 3. Korean Mukbang Wave: Making Sense of Eating and Broadcasting and Its Techno-Mediated Narrative Environment

O autorze

Hyesu Park received her PhD in English from Ohio State University in 2014 and is currently an associate professor of English at Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA. In 2015 and 2016, she was a visiting professor at FLAME University, Pune, India. Her research interests include American and Asian-American literatures, narrative theory, media studies, and South Korean literature and popular culture. Her articles have appeared in Image and Narrative, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, and American Book Review. Most recently, she edited Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences. Currently, she is working on a monograph, Narrating Other Minds: Alterity and Empathy in Post-1945 Asian American Literature (forthcoming).