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Author |
: Ji-Yeon Yuh |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2004-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814796993 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814796990 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond the Shadow of Camptown by : Ji-Yeon Yuh
Through moving oral histories, Ji-Yeon Yuh tells an important, at times heartbreaking, story of Korean military brides. She takes us beyond the stereotypes and reveals their roles within their families, communities, and Korean immigration to the U.S.
Author |
: Katharine H. S. Moon |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1997-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231106436 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231106432 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sex Among Allies by : Katharine H. S. Moon
This study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level.
Author |
: Setsu Shigematsu |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452915180 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452915180 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Militarized Currents by : Setsu Shigematsu
Foregrounding indigenous and feminist scholarship, this collection analyzes militarization as an extension of colonialism from the late twentieth to the twenty-first century in Asia and the Pacific. The contributors theorize the effects of militarization across former and current territories of Japan and the United States, such as Guam, Okinawa, the Marshall Islands, the Philippines, and Korea, demonstrating that the relationship between militarization and colonial subordination—and their gendered and racialized processes—shapes and produces bodies of memory, knowledge, and resistance. Contributors: Walden Bello, U of the Philippines; Michael Lujan Bevacqua, U of Guam; Patti Duncan, Oregon State U; Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, U of Hawai‘i, M noa; Insook Kwon, Myongji U; Laurel A. Monnig, U of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign; Katharine H. S. Moon, Wellesley College; Jon Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio, U of Hawai‘i, M noa; Naoki Sakai, Cornell U; Fumika Sato, Hitotsubashi U; Theresa Cenidoza Suarez, California State U, San Marcos; Teresia K. Teaiwa, Victoria U, Wellington; Wesley Iwao Ueunten, San Francisco State U.
Author |
: Susie Woo |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2019-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479827169 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479827169 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Framed by War by : Susie Woo
An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and political dominance. Framed by War examines how the Korean orphan, GI baby, adoptee, birth mother, prostitute, and bride emerged at the heart of empire. Strained embodiments of war, they brought Americans into Korea and Koreans into America in ways that defined, and at times defied, US empire in the Pacific. What unfolded in Korea set the stage for US postwar power in the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. American destruction and humanitarianism, violence and care played out upon the bodies of Korean children and women. Framed by War traces the arc of intimate relations that served as these foundations. To suture a fragmented past, Susie Woo looks to US and South Korean government documents and military correspondence; US aid organization records; Korean orphanage registers; US and South Korean newspapers and magazines; and photographs, interviews, films, and performances. Integrating history with visual and cultural analysis, Woo chronicles how Americans went from knowing very little about Koreans to making them family, and how Korean children and women who did not choose war found ways to navigate its aftermath in South Korea, the United States, and spaces in between.
Author |
: Kim Soom |
Publisher |
: University of Washington Press |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2020-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780295747675 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0295747676 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis One Left by : Kim Soom
A powerful tale of trauma and endurance that transformed a nation’s understanding of Korean comfort women During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived as social outcasts. Since then, self-declared comfort women have come forward only to have their testimonies and calls for compensation largely denied by the Japanese government. Kim Soom tells the story of a woman who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen while gathering snails for her starving family. The horrors of her life as a sex slave follow her back to Korea, where she lives in isolation gripped by the fear that her past will be discovered. Yet, when she learns that the last known comfort woman is dying, she decides to tell her there will still be “one left” after her passing, and embarks on a painful journey. One Left is a provocative, extensively researched novel constructed from the testimonies of dozens of comfort women. The first Korean novel devoted to this subject, it rekindled conversations about comfort women as well as the violent legacies of Japanese colonialism. This first-ever English translation recovers the overlooked and disavowed stories of Korea’s most marginalized women.
Author |
: Susie Woo |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2019-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479880539 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479880531 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Framed by War by : Susie Woo
An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and political dominance. Framed by War examines how the Korean orphan, GI baby, adoptee, birth mother, prostitute, and bride emerged at the heart of empire. Strained embodiments of war, they brought Americans into Korea and Koreans into America in ways that defined, and at times defied, US empire in the Pacific. What unfolded in Korea set the stage for US postwar power in the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. American destruction and humanitarianism, violence and care played out upon the bodies of Korean children and women. Framed by War traces the arc of intimate relations that served as these foundations. To suture a fragmented past, Susie Woo looks to US and South Korean government documents and military correspondence; US aid organization records; Korean orphanage registers; US and South Korean newspapers and magazines; and photographs, interviews, films, and performances. Integrating history with visual and cultural analysis, Woo chronicles how Americans went from knowing very little about Koreans to making them family, and how Korean children and women who did not choose war found ways to navigate its aftermath in South Korea, the United States, and spaces in between.
Author |
: Grace M. Cho |
Publisher |
: Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2021-05-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781952177958 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1952177952 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tastes Like War by : Grace M. Cho
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the 2022 Asian/Pacific American Award in Literature A TIME and NPR Best Book of the Year in 2021 This evocative memoir of food and family history is "somehow both mouthwatering and heartbreaking... [and] a potent personal history" (Shelf Awareness). Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details—language, cultural references, memories, and food. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. In her mother’s final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her parent’s childhood in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her mother’s multiple voices at the table. And through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her—but also the things that kept her alive. “An exquisite commemoration and a potent reclamation.” —Booklist (starred review) “A wrenching, powerful account of the long-term effects of the immigrant experience.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author |
: Maria Hohn |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 477 |
Release |
: 2010-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822348276 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822348276 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Over There by : Maria Hohn
Essays explore the social impact of Americas global network of military bases by examining interactions between U.S. soldiers and members of host communities in South Korea, Japan/Okinawa, and West Germany.
Author |
: Jinwon Kim |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2020-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498584531 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1498584535 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Koreatowns by : Jinwon Kim
This collection defines Koreatowns as spatial configurations that concentrate elements of “Korea” demographically, economically, politically, and culturally. The contributors provide exploratory accounts and critical evaluations of Koreatowns in different countries throughout the world. Ranging from familiar settings such as Los Angeles and New York City, to more unfamiliar locales such as Singapore, Beijing, Mexico, U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and the American Midwest, this collection not only examines the social characteristics and contours of these spaces, but also the types of discourses and symbols that they exude.
Author |
: Akemi Johnson |
Publisher |
: The New Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2019-06-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781620973325 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1620973324 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Night in the American Village by : Akemi Johnson
"A lively encounter with identity and American military history in Okinawa. Night in the American Village is by turns intellectual, hip, and sexy. I admire it for its ferocity, style, and vigor. A wonderful book." —Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead A beautifully written examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. bases in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades—with tensions exacerbated by the often volatile relationship between islanders and the military, especially after the brutal rape of a twelve-year-old girl by three servicemen in the 1990s. But the situation is more complex than it seems. In Night in the American Village, journalist Akemi Johnson takes readers deep into the "border towns" surrounding the bases—a world where cultural and political fault lines compel individuals, both Japanese and American, to continually renegotiate their own identities. Focusing on the women there, she follows the complex fallout of the murder of an Okinawan woman by an ex–U.S. serviceman in 2016 and speaks to protesters, to women who date and marry American men and groups that help them when problems arise, and to Okinawans whose family members survived World War II. Thought-provoking and timely, Night in the American Village is a vivid look at the enduring wounds of U.S.-Japanese history and the cultural and sexual politics of the American military empire.