Korean Fan Dance for Fun

Performing Alterity in Contemporary Japan

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2142736
AutoresYoungmi Lim (Lehman College, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen80
Número2
Páginas192-222
Fecha de publicación2015-03-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00141844.2013.831942
OpenAlexW2156132651
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas40

This paper focuses on performances of Korean folk culture in Japanese schools and communities to analyse how minority identities are constructed. Korean minority education in Japan has taken up the challenge of reversing the stigma attached to former colonial subjects, employing a range of tangible props what Twine (1999 Twine, France Winddance. 1999. Bearing Blackness in Britain: The Meaning of Raical Difference for White Birth Mothers of African-Descent Children. Social Identities, 5(2):185-210. doi: 10.1080/13504639951554[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]) calls 'racial literacy' which prepares racial minority children to cope with and challenge racism at large. While embodying identity expression through Korean folk dance performances is an effective strategy, it faces constraints from larger social forces. Korean dance and music performances do little to challenge the dominance of mainstream values. These performances are embedded in everyday family, school, and community practices and paradoxically reproduce existing gender roles, broader pedagogical ideologies, and social structures. This ethnographic case study disentangles contradictions in minority education and shows commitment to alterity accompanies disavowal of alterity in relation to the hegemonic Japanese culture and society

Aesthetics · Alterity · Art · Dance · Ethnography · Identity (music · Ideology · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Visual arts · White (mutation · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy