The fourth issue of Situations brings together four essays exploring the conjuncture and disjuncture between physical space (cities, nations, regions) and the semiotic sites of articulation (of gender, nationality, citizenship) in different cultural texts and contexts, from Seoul to Singapore, from film to maps. The encounter and overlap of the Confucian and the Western, of the global and the local, of the visual and the notional, which the contributors unravel, create a rich, variegated diagnosis of culture at this moment in this part of the world. The graduate student reviews offer attentive readings of images, film, lifestyle, architecture, and urban space of South Korea, which supplement the main articles by examining the minute interstices of the negotiations and contentions of cultural interplay.
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Situations Vol. 4 (Winter 2010)
Site, Subject, Space: Negotiations and Contentions
Table of Contents
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Aljosa Puzar
DEAR Kongja (Confucius): Liminality and/as the Feminist Strategy
Yanjie Wang
Contention of Lust, Caution: Sexuality, Visuality, and Female Subjectivity
Lim Yiru
The Negotiation for Space: The Arts and Culture in
Hye-Joon Yoon
Space, Place, Maps:Reflections on Identity
Review of Contemporary Culture
(a) Image, Video, and Film
Yang Jung Lee
Genuinely Yours?: Generating Girl Power in Girl¡¯s Generation¡¯s ¡°Genie¡±
SooMin Kim
Lady Meets Gaga: The Feminist Undoing of a Pop Icon
Yary Choi
Chilean Miners Capture Global Attention: The CNN Coverage of the Chilean Miners
Ah Young Youn
Murderous Beauty and the Cannibalistic Beast
Sun Hyung Kim
The Silent or Silenced Father: A Review of A Tale of Two Sisters
(b) Life Style
SooMin Kim
If Heels Could Kill: The Double-Edged Gaze on Women¡¯s Feet
Yang Jung Lee
Who Took the Bonne out of La Bonne Tarte?
(c) Urban Space
Yang Jung Lee
Finding Chongno: The Search for the Past in the Present
SooMin Kim
Ewha: Campus or Complex?: The Commercialization of Women¡¯s Education Space
Ah Young Youn
Come Back to Busan
SSamzie Building in Seoul
