Lee, Namhee.

The making of minjung democracy and the politics of representation in South Korea / [electronic resource] : Namhee Lee. - Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2007. - xii, 349 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : minjung, history, and historical subjectivity -- The construction of minjung -- Anticommunism and North Korea -- Anti-Americanism and chuch'e sasang -- The undonggw�on as a counterpublic sphere -- Between indeterminacy and radical critique : madangg�uk, ritual, and protest -- The alliance between labor and intellectuals -- "To be reborn as revolutionary workers" : Gramscian fusion and Leninist vanguardism -- The subject as the subjected : intellectuals and workers in labor literature -- Conclusion : the minjung movement as history.


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9780801445668 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801461699 (e-book)




Political participation--History.--Korea (South)
Political culture--History.--Korea (South)
Social movements--History.--Korea (South)
Student movements--History.--Korea (South)
Democratization--History.--Korea (South)


Korea (South)--Politics and government--1960-1988.


Electronic books.

JQ1729.A15 / L44 2007eb

320.95195