Tabloid Coloniality
A Popular Journalist Maps Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12424501 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Driscoll (0000-0002-5348-6054, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-71 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | positions asia critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-9847 • E-ISSN: 1527-8271 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10679847-1894281 |
| OpenAlex | W2075070846 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The March 1, 1919, mobilization for Korean independence was the single largest threat to Japan's imperial rule in its half century of existence. Referred to reverently as the Sam'il Undong, the protest was initially centered in Seoul but quickly spread into towns and villages. Japanese colonial elites were stunned by the large-scale protests. After gathering themselves and violently repressing the movement, the colonists reacted to the demonstrations in the standard fashion of consolidating the imperial binaries (civilized/savage, rational/irrational) they had deployed earlier in Taiwan and Korea to dismiss the protests as “barbaric” (yaban) and “blind recklessness.” However, these binaries also point to desires for connection and solidarity with Koreans. Using psychoanalytic postcolonial theory, I try to show some of the latent desires on the part of Japanese elites as they reacted to the March 1 movement
Ancient history · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Empire · Independence (probability theory · Irrational number · Mindset · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |