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

• Autore: Cho Grace M
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 951.904/2082
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Haunting the Korean diaspora
• ISBN: 0-8166-6646-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816084903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II