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Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States /

"Among the scholars who have built the field of Korean studies are former Peace Corps volunteers who served in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s before pursuing advanced degrees in anthropology, history, and literature. These scholars, who formed the core of the second generation of Korean Stu...

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Otros Autores: Robinson, Michael Edson (Editor ), Kim, Seung-Kyung, 1954- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Seattle, WA] : Center for Korea Studies, University of Washington, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction / Seung-kyung Kim and Michael Robinson -- 1. Kwangju, trauma, and the problem of objectivity in history-writing / Don Baker -- 2. How the Peace Corps changed our lives / Edward J. Baker -- 3. On being part of the Peace Corps generation in Korean studies / Donald N. Clark -- 4. A road less traveled: From Rome to Seoul via the Peace Corps / Carter J. Eckert -- 5. Serendipity, Ugŏn, and Inyŏn / Bruce Fulton -- 6. Did women have a Peace-Corps-Korea experience? / Laurel Kendall -- 7. At the border: Women, anthropology, and North Korea / Linda Lewis -- 8. Empathy, politics, and historical imagination: A Peace Corps experience and its aftermath / Michael Robinson -- 9. Peace Corps-Korea Group K-I: Empowering to serve as new voices in Korean studies / Edward J. Shultz -- 10. A Korean perspective: Peace Corps volunteers, Europe, and the study of Korea / Okpyo Moon -- 11. Cultural immersion, imperialism, and the academy: An outsider's look a Peace Corps volunteers' contribution to Korean studies / Clark W. Sorensen -- Afterword / Kathleen Stephens. 
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