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Romantic Love: Mechanism for Feminist Empowerment or Orientalist Legacy?
Southeast Asian Review of English Pub Date : 2019-12-16 , DOI: 10.22452/sare.vol56no2.4
Min Joo Lee

In this article, I analyze the romantic desire of non-Korean – particularly Western – women for the fictional Korean male characters depicted in transnationally popular Korean television dramas. This article is divided into two sections: first, it examines the transnational popularity of the South Korean television drama series, My Love from Another Star, and its depiction of a particular type of romantic Korean masculinity called kkonminam (flower boy) masculinity. Here, I argue that these fictional stories problematize hypersexual masculinity through their representations of romantic masculinity. The second section of the article extends the analysis by deploying ethnographic interviews and participant-observations of Western fans of Korean television dramas who, believing that the kkonminam depicted in the dramas are true reflections of Korean men, travel to Korea to form romantic relations with Korean men in real life. Using feminist theories of love, such as those propounded by bell hooks and Lauren Berlant, and the theory of the erotic by Audre Lorde, I argue that these fans, while romantically desiring Korean kkonminam, also co-opt the discourse of romantic love and Korean romantic masculinity to articulate and essentialize cultural differences between the East and West.

中文翻译:

浪漫爱情:增强女权或东方传统的机制?

在本文中,我分析了非韩裔女性(尤其是西方女性)对跨国流行的韩国电视剧中描绘的虚构的韩国男性角色的浪漫渴望。本文分为两个部分:首先,它考察了韩国电视连续剧《我的另一个星星的爱》在全球的流行程度,以及对朝鲜浪漫主义男性气质的一种描述,即所谓的“花童”男性气质。在这里,我认为这些虚构的故事通过表现出浪漫的男性气质而使过性的男性气质成为问题。本文的第二部分通过对韩国电视剧的西方歌迷进行人种志访谈和参与者观察来扩大分析范围,相信在电视剧中描绘的kkonminam是韩国男人的真实反映,请前往韩国与现实生活中的韩国男人建立浪漫关系。我使用女权主义的爱情理论,例如钟形钩和劳伦·伯兰特(Lauren Berlant)提出的爱情理论,以及奥德丽·洛德(Audre Lorde)的色情理论,我认为这些粉丝虽然浪漫地渴望韩国的kkonminam,但也选择了浪漫爱情和韩国的话语。浪漫的阳刚之气,以阐明和本质化东西方之间的文化差异。
更新日期:2019-12-16
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