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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cho, Grace M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean Americans--Psychology.

Korean Americans.

Korean American women--Psychology.

Korean American women.

Immigrants--United States--Psychology.

Immigrants.

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

Prostitutes.

War brides--United States--History--20th century.

War brides.

Psychic trauma--Korea (South).

Psychic trauma.

Shame--United States.

Shame.

Secrecy--United States.

Secrecy.

Korean War, 1950-1953--Psychological aspects.

Korean War, 1950-1953.

Korean War, 1950-1953--Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

0-8166-6646-6

OCLC:

311053574