Haunting the Korean Diaspora : Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War /

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Since the Korean War--the forgotten war--more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed histo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cho, Grace M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women.
War brides.
Shame.
Secrecy.
Psychological aspects.
Psychic trauma.
Prostitutes.
Korean Americans > Psychology.
Korean American women > Psychology.
Immigrants > Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
HISTORY > Military > Korean War.
Guerre de Coree, 1950-1953 > Femmes.
Guerre de Coree, 1950-1953 > Aspect psychologique.
Secret.
Honte > États-Unis.
Traumatisme psychique > Coree du Sud.
Épouses de guerre > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Prostituees > Coree du Sud > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Americaines d'origine coreenne > Psychologie.
Americains d'origine coreenne > Psychologie.
Korean War, 1950-1953 > Women.
Korean War, 1950-1953 > Psychological aspects.
Secrecy > United States.
Shame > United States.
Psychic trauma > Korea (South)
War brides > United States > History > 20th century.
Prostitutes > Korea (South) > History > 20th century.
Immigrants > United States > Psychology.
United States.
Korea (South)
History.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:Since the Korean War--the forgotten war--more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history of emotional and physical violence between the United States and Korea and the unexamined reverberations of sexual relationships between Korean women and American soldiers. Grace M. Cho exposes how Koreans in the United States have been profoundly affected by the forgotten war and uncovers the silences and secrets that still surround it, arguing that trauma memories have been passed unconsciously through a process psychoanalysts call "transgenerational haunting". Tracing how such secrets have turned into "ghosts," Cho investigates the mythic figure of the yanggongju, literally the "Western princess," who provides sexual favors to American military personnel. She reveals how this figure haunts both the intimate realm of memory and public discourse, in which narratives of U.S. benevolence abroad and assimilation of immigrants at home go unchallenged. Memories of U.S. violence, Cho writes, threaten to undo these narratives--and so they have been rendered unspeakable
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816666461

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