H. Lee

Performing the Nation in Global Korea: Transnational Theatre H. Lee

Marc Notes: Hyunjung Lee reveals contemporary South Korean performance as social and political practice through the workings of theatre-making within a wide range of historical, national, and transnational contexts. Selected productions illustrate how various performances of 'Korean-ness' conspire with, contradict, and negotiate Korean cultural nationalism as well as disparate entities of Western cultural hegemony. She also extrapolates how the debates on South Korea's cultural status, along with the incessant task of representing the nation, have been always embedded within questions of what the country's national identity should be and, thus, what it should look like.