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Book SynopsisIn Imperial Romance, Su Yun Kim argues that the idea of colonial intimacy within the Japanese empire of the early twentieth century had a far broader and more popular influence on discourse makers, social leaders, and intellectuals than previously understood. Kim investigates representations of Korean-Japanese intimate and familial relationshipsincluding romance, marriage, and kinshipin literature, media, and cinema, alongside documents that discuss colonial policies during the Japanese protectorate period and colonial rule in Korea (190545).
Focusing on Korean perspectives, Kim uncovers political meaning in the representation of intimacy and emotion between Koreans and Japanese portrayed in print media and films. Imperial Romance disrupts the conventional reading of colonial-period texts as the result of either coercion or the disavowal of colonialism, thereby expanding our understanding of colonial writing practices. The theme of intermarriage gave elite Korean write
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Kim provides fresh interpretations of such writers as Yŏm Sangsŏp and Yi Kwangsu by offering new readings of the domestic settings in their works, which explore how they redefined and re-created a new kind of social order among their characters.
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Imperial Romance contains a concise analysis of selected Korean literary and media texts that include the themes of intermarriage and romance. Su Yun Kim's Imperial Romance presents the beginnings of an exciting conversation and prepares us to ask further questions regarding race, love, and romance, whilst evaluating not only the past, but the contemporary moment of globalization.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Imperial Romance
1. Civilization and Enlightenment: The Role of the Japanese Home in the Early Colonial Period, 1905–1919
2. Under the Same Roof: A Royal Wedding and a Mixed Family for the Ruling Class
3. Wartime Ideology and the Integration of Korean-Japanese Mixed Families, 1930s
4. Romance and Colonial Universalism
5. Visualizing "International" and Korean-Japanese Marriage in Print Media
Epilogue: Postcolonial Interracial Intimacy
