Abstract
The issue of modernity has been broadly discussed, particularly since the spread of cultural influence from the European great powers to the peripheral areas. In the past, Western modernity oppressed the diverse differences in locality, gender, and generation. What matters now is to recognize the changeability, rather than the origins, of modernity, which we intend to observe in the historical and cultural processes of modernization in pre-modern and modern Korea. Indeed, we need to imagine how a modernity exists; it premises the dichotomy of center and periphery, yet with its blurring relationship, it repeatedly negates and maintains itself so as to be highlighted through its new value. Here, what is called porous modernity arises.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Park, S. (2016). Porous Modernity: Overcoming Modernity in the Age of Globalization. In: A Comparative Study of Korean Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54882-5_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54882-5_3
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, New York
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-55717-9
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-54882-5
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media StudiesLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)