Narrating selfhood and personality in South Korea: women and social mobility

Abstract

In this article I analyze the constitution of selfhood by exploring those narratives about personality that are at the heart of middle‐aged South Korean women's social mobility stories. In this project I consider agency as a discursive phenomenon: it is not an asset but is instead a particular narrative convention. Thus selfhoods are variously fortified by agency or overdetermined by larger social and historical forces. This article thereby contributes to a narrative understanding of social transformation and the rendering of social justice over periods of rapid social change such as the recent past in post‐Korean War South Korea.

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