Queer Times: Aesthetics, Performance, and Social Movements in South Korea

Kim, Yeong Ran

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Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Kim, Yeong Ran (creator); Ybarra, Patricia (Advisor); Alvarado, Leticia (Reader); Hilton, Leon (Reader); Han, Ju Hui Judy (Reader); Brown University. Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Queer theory; Digital media; performance studies; Korean studies
Extent:: viii, 145 p.

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Abstract:: Abstract of Queer Times: Aesthetics, Performance, and Social Movements in South Korea, by Yeong Ran Kim, Ph.D., Brown University, October 2020 This dissertation explores the ways in which queer aesthetic practices have intersected with social movements in South Korea from the 1990s to the present. Drawing upon historical research and cultural analysis, I trace how the material, performative, and affective labor of queer artists and activists have created moments of coming together in neoliberal Korea. Informed by theories of queer temporality and transnational queer studies, this dissertation focuses on a geopolitical rendering of queerness in South Korea. My project particularly examines the artistic and activist labor of translating and transforming the concept of queerness—a term that originated in Anglophone culture—as it is practiced in the South Korean context. I suggest that queerness in South Korea has to be read carefully, as it can be flattened by ahistorical identity claims that cast the non-West as backward in the global timeline of LGBT history. By attending to the historical, material, and affective conditions of this period—particularly the legacies of the democratic movement of the 1980s and the rapid globalization of the 1990s—my dissertation examines the ways in which queer activism has shaped “minority politics” in South Korea, building alliances and solidarity across social differences of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability.
Notes:: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2020

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Kim, Yeong Ran, "Queer Times: Aesthetics, Performance, and Social Movements in South Korea" (2020). Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:pf8n3yn7/

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