The patriarchal Western gaze and the discursive policing of fandom: “Koreaboo” as stigma

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI:10.1177/13678779241251863

David C. Oh

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Abstract

The derogatory label “Koreaboo,” used to stigmatize Korean popular culture fans, suggests Korean media's movements are treated as a contaminant rather than a welcome presence. In this research project, I conducted focus group research and analyses of Reddit threads to understand the ways women fans of color in this study interpret and navigate taste hierarchies that mock women's interests in celebrities and texts from a racialized Asian nation. Korean popular culture fans of color reject “Koreaboo” for themselves, but they project the label onto “bad” White fans, who are perceived as having inappropriate fannish interests that deviate from popularly held standards of intercultural and interracial fan interest. The self-disciplining within fandom distances itself from the Western patriarchal gaze by re-directing its focus. Even when fans of color seek Korean media to escape White hegemony and heteronormative patriarchy, they internalize and react to its gaze in their fan practice.

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西方父权制的目光和对粉丝的话语管理："作为耻辱的 "Koreaboo

"Koreaboo "这一贬义标签被用来丑化韩国流行文化粉丝，表明韩国媒体的动向被视为一种污染，而不是一种受欢迎的存在。在本研究项目中，我进行了焦点小组研究和 Reddit 线程分析，以了解本研究中有色人种女粉丝如何解读和驾驭嘲弄女性对来自种族化亚洲国家的名人和文本的兴趣的品味等级制度。韩国流行文化的有色人种粉丝拒绝为自己贴上 "Koreaboo "的标签，但她们却将这一标签投射到 "坏 "白人粉丝身上，因为白人粉丝被认为具有不恰当的粉丝兴趣，偏离了跨文化和跨种族粉丝兴趣的流行标准。粉丝内部的自律通过重新调整关注点与西方父权制的目光拉开了距离。即使有色人种粉丝寻求韩国媒体来逃避白人霸权和异性恋父权制，他们在粉丝实践中也会内化并对其目光做出反应。

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