The Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Talk, and Class in Contemporary South Korea

by Nancy Abelmann

Book Overview

How do people make sense of their world in the face of the breakneck speed of contemporary social change? Through the lives and narratives of eight women, The Melodrama of Mobility chronicles South Korea's experience of just such dizzyingly rapid development. Abelmann captures the mood, feeling, and language of a generation and an era while providing a rare window on the personal and social struggles of South Korean modernity. Drawing also from television...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082482749X
• ISBN13: 9780824827496
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.2"