TY  - GEN
T1  - The melodrama of mobility : women, talk, and class in contemporary South Korea
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A1  - Abelmann, Nancy
LA  - English
PP  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaii Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn875895299
AB  - How do people make sense of their world in the face of the breakneck speed of contemporary social change? Through the lives and narratives of eight women, The Melodrama of Mobility chronicles South Korea's experience of just such dizzyingly rapid development. 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. The melodramatic mode helps people to wonder: Can individuals be blamed for their social fates? How should we live? Who can say who is good or bad? By combining the ethnographic tools of anthropology, an engagement with prevailing sociological questions, and a literary approach to personal narratives, The Melodrama of Mobility offers a rich portrait of the experience of compressed modernity in the non-West.
OP  - 325
CN  - HQ1059.5.K6 A24 2003eb
SN  - 9780824864859
SN  - 0824864859
SN  - 9780824825966
SN  - 9780824827496
KW  - Middle-aged women : Korea (South) : Social conditions.
KW  - Middle-aged women : Korea (South) : Economic conditions.
KW  - Middle-aged women : Employment : Korea (South)
KW  - Social mobility : Korea (South)
KW  - Social classes : Korea (South)
KW  - Korea (South) : History : 1948-1960.
KW  - Korea (South) : History : 1960-1988.
KW  - Korea : Social conditions : 1945-
KW  - Femmes d'âge moyen : Corée du Sud : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Femmes d'âge moyen : Corée du Sud : Conditions économiques.
KW  - Femmes d'âge moyen : Travail : Corée du Sud.
KW  - Mobilité sociale : Corée du Sud.
KW  - Classes sociales : Corée du Sud.
KW  - Corée du Sud : Histoire : 1948-1960.
KW  - Corée du Sud : Histoire : 1960-1988.
KW  - Corée : Conditions sociales : 1945-
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - Middle-aged women : Economic conditions
KW  - Middle-aged women : Employment
KW  - Middle-aged women : Social conditions
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social mobility
KW  - Korea
KW  - Korea (South)
KW  - Vrouwen.
KW  - Sociale situatie.
KW  - Sociale mobiliteit.
KW  - Since 1945
KW  - History
ER  -