Essays about: "Korean gay identity"

Found 1 essay containing the words Korean gay identity.

  1. 1. Signifying Gay Men in Korean TV Drama Fiction: Naturalizing the Normative in the Contrast of the Imagined Other

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Kristoffer Tingbacke; [2015]
    Keywords : Koreanska draman; Sydkorea; Imagination as social practice; Korean gay identity; Global flows; South Korea; Korean dramas; Globala flöden; Koreansk gay identitet; Föreställning som social praktik; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This essay investigates, using semiotic deconstruction, how Korean TV fiction dramas signify gay men in the contrasting of a designated 'normal' that effectively communicates heteronormativity as "myth" obscuring other ‘alternative’ ways of life. This heteronormativity is neither universal nor eternal but is rather part of the situated collective imaginings of Korean communities and people. READ MORE