Haunting the Korean diaspora : shame, secrecy, and the forgotten war
Grace M. Cho
Bok · Engelsk · 2008
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| Omfang | xiii, 245 sider : illustrasjoner i svart hvitt
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| Opplysninger | Fleshing out the ghost ; A genealogy of trauma ; Tracing the disappearance of the Yanggongju ; The fantasy of honorary whiteness ; Diasporic vision: methods of seeing trauma. - 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
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| Emner | Immigrants - Psychology. - United States
Korean American women - Psychology. Korean Americans - Psychology. Korean War, 1950-1953 - Psychological aspects. Vis mer... Korean War, 1950-1953 - Women.
Prostitutes - History - Korea (South) Psychic trauma - Korea (South) Secrecy - United States. Shame - United States. War brides - History - United States koreanske amerikanere immigranter kvinner prostituerte psykisk traume skam hemmelighold koreakrigen Korea USA historie psykologi |
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| ISBN | 9780816652747. - 9780816652754
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