East Asian Studies 217 - KOREAN POPULAR CULTURE

Topics course.: Changing representations of Korean food in contemporary media reflect a new transnational cosmopolitanism. By analyzing changing representations of Korean food in contemporary media genres, the class asks how food has become a new locus of both grounding and mediation in the imaginations of workers, immigrants, tourists, international students and exiles in constant motion between shifting centers and peripheries. Forms of electronic capitalism create imagined communities whose identities are created beyond spatial borders, and also new spaces where that same identity is consumed through a voyeuristic relationship with food on screen. Enrollment limited to 20. (E)

Topic: Kimchee Power, Identity Politics and Travel in Contemporary Korea.