A01=Nancy Abelmann
Author_Nancy Abelmann
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Category=JBSF1
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Product details
- ISBN 9780824827496
- Weight: 501g
- Dimensions: 149 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2003
- Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Through the lives and narratives of eight women, The Melodrama of Mobility chronicles South Korea's experience of dizzyingly rapid development. Nancy Abelmann captures the mood, feeling, and language of a generation and an era while providing a rare window on the personal and social struggles of South Korean modernity. Drawing also from television soap operas and films, she argues that a melodramatic sensibility speaks to South Korea's transformation because it preserves the tension and ambivalence of daily life in unsettled times.
