Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Notes on Romanization and Translation xiii
5. Introduction: Minjung, History, and Historical Subjectivity 1
6. Part I. The Crisis of Historical Subjectivity
7. 1. The Construction of Minjung 23
8. 2. Anticommunism and North Korea 70
9. 3. Anti-Americanism and Chuch’e Sasang 109
10. Part II. Building a Counterpublic Sphere
11. 4. The Undongkwon as a Counterpublic Sphere 147
12. 5. Between Indeterminacy and Radical Critique: Madangguk, Ritual, and Protest 187
13. 6. The Alliance between Labor and Intellectuals 213
14. Part III. The Politics of Representation
15. 7. “To Be Reborn as Revolutionary Workers”: Gramscian Fusion and Leninist Vanguardism 243
16. 8. The Subject as the Subjected: Intellectuals and Workers in Labor Literature 269
17. Conclusion: The Minjung Movement as History 294
18. Bibliography 305
19. Index 339