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An Essay on High-teen Study: Archaeology of High-teen & Its Primitive Image in the Case of Japan in the Postwar Period

  • Journal of Popular Narrative
  • 2020, 26(1), pp.211-240
  • DOI : 10.18856/jpn.2020.26.1.007
  • Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Received : January 4, 2020
  • Accepted : February 14, 2020
  • Published : February 28, 2020

Yoon Jae Min 1

1동국대학교

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ABSTRACT

This essay examines the questions that existing high-teen related studies are missing: “What is high-teen?”. It is a foreign language originated from Japanese, spoken only in Japan and Korea among the post-war pan East Asian pop culture scenes. High-teen is based on the ‘teenager’ formed in the United States. It should be understood not just as a subcategory of popular culture but as an important ideological allegory of post-war Japanese politics. To learn this concept, this essay archeologically researches the origin of high-teen’s meaning and analyses the political meaning of the early high-teen contents of Ueda Hirao which related to postwar politics and ideology in Japan. Existing research regarding high-teen tends to be limited to the peripheral and fragmentary areas. On the other hand, this paper will be the beginning of a discussion on high-teen in a more expanding perspective as an East Asian postwar history.

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