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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816084903321

Autore

Cho Grace M

Titolo

Haunting the Korean diaspora [[electronic resource] ] : shame, secrecy, and the forgotten war / / Grace M. Cho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-6646-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

951.904/2082

Soggetti

Korean Americans - Psychology

Korean American women - Psychology

Immigrants - United States - Psychology

Prostitutes - Korea (South) - History - 20th century

War brides - United States - History - 20th century

Psychic trauma - Korea (South)

Shame - United States

Secrecy - United States

Korean War, 1950-1953 - Psychological aspects

Korean War, 1950-1953 - Women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; A Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Fabric of Erasure; 1. Fleshing Out the Ghost; 2. A Genealogy of Trauma; 3. Tracing the Disappearance of the Yanggongju; 4. The Fantasy of Honorary Whiteness; 5. Diasporic Vision: Methods of Seeing Trauma; Postscript: In Memoriam; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 sile