The white-clad people: The white hanbok and Korean nationalism
Lee, Y. 2022. The white-clad people: The white hanbok and Korean nationalism. Cultural Dynamics. 34 (4), pp. 271-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/09213740221117811
| Title | The white-clad people: The white hanbok and Korean nationalism |
|---|---|
| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Lee, Y. |
| Abstract | The paper diachronically examines the white hanbok as the material and symbolic site of interaction between the hegemonising and the hegemonised in Korea. It traces the changing status of the white hanbok from the end of the 19th century to the present— from being part of unconscious material culture, to the synecdoche of the colonised nation, to the symbol of resistance, to the membrane of a ‘homogeneous nation’, to the symbol of democracy. It analyses the white hanbok as a paradoxical skin—at once in- clusive and exclusive—of Korean ethnonationalism, as well as a permeable membrane between the self and other of national identity. By exploring the white hanbok in relation to the ongoing movement towards a decolonised democratic nation, the paper reveals the entwined relations between material objects, practices, and nationalism in Korea. |
| Keywords | hanbok |
| white-clad people | |
| nationalism | |
| colonisation | |
| Orientalism | |
| skin | |
| veil | |
| Journal | Cultural Dynamics |
| Journal citation | 34 (4), pp. 271-296 |
| ISSN | 0921-3740 |
| 1461-7048 | |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | Sage |
| Publisher's version | License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/09213740221117811 |
| Web address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09213740221117811 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published online | 04 Aug 2022 |
| Published in print | Nov 2022 |