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A Study on Cultural Text Dance of Cafe in Colonial Korea - Mainly During the 1930s in Seoul -

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1성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper studies on cultural text dance of cafe in Colonial Korea. Having been produced in time when the nation was under the Japanese colonial rule, the cultural space illustrated the society experiencing confliction between its traditional ideology and western culture introduced. Cafe is western-styled dance theater, a place extended from the social reality, played the role to help break the rules of the total institution. Having lost her identity through the mortification of self, waitress went to the stage of reorganization of individual, to be injected a new identity while watching a dance performance of cafe. 1930's of cafe in colonial Korea, the reorganizing of individual process while watching dance performance seemed resistance to what the institution requested her to do. The focus of this analysis is same the next. first, cafe in Colonial Korea is new cultural space. second, waitress' role is western culture introducer.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.