Bringing the Other Home: Representations of the self and foreignness in North and South Korean textbooks
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This article analyzes how the North and South Korean states sponsor differing narratives on foreigners to define their national identity. These state narratives create for young Koreans a shared vision of a national Other/Self that legitimizes their existing political regime. At the heart of each set of narratives is the portrayal of a Korea that is hegemonic on two levels. First, public education ensures that the state narratives are placed in the foreground so as to occupy a prominent public position. Second, the history portrays a hegemonic, or idealized, nation wherein a national Other demarcates a sense of being Korean that rises above differences of gender, class, and region. The resulting national narratives are less rooted in any essential ‘Korean-ness’ than they are in the needs and concerns of modern Korean states.
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This article analyzes how the North and South Korean states sponsor differing narratives on foreigners to define their national identity. These state narratives create for young Koreans a shared vision of a national Other/Self that legitimizes their existing political regime. At the heart of each set of narratives is the portrayal of a Korea that is hegemonic on two levels. First, public education ensures that the state narratives are placed in the foreground so as to occupy a prominent public position. Second, the history portrays a hegemonic, or idealized, nation wherein a national Other demarcates a sense of being Korean that rises above differences of gender, class, and region. The resulting national narratives are less rooted in any essential ‘Korean-ness’ than they are in the needs and concerns of modern Korean states.