Queer Korea Todd A. Henry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henry, Todd A., editor.

Series:

Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Asian LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press 2020

[s.l.] : Duke University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout these turbulent times, "queer" Koreans were ignored, minimized, and erased in narratives of their modern nation, East Asia, and the wider world. This interdisciplinary volume challenges such marginalization through critical analyses of non-normative sexuality and gender variance. Considering both personal and collective forces, the contributors extend individualized notions of queer neoliberalism beyond those typically set in Western queer theory. Along the way, they recount a range of illuminating topics, from shamanic rituals during the colonial era and B-grade comedy films under Cold War dictatorship to female masculinity among today's youth and transgender confrontations with the resident registration system. More broadly, Queer Korea offers readers new ways of understanding the limits and possibilities of human liberation under exclusionary conditions of modernity in Asia and beyond. Contributors. Pei Jean Chen, John (Song Pae) Cho, Chung-kang Kim, Todd A. Henry, Merose Hwang, Ruin, Layoung Shin, Shin-ae Ha, John Whittier Treat

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction Queer Korea: Toward a Field of Engagement

PART I UNRULY SUBJECTS UNDER COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL MODERNITY

1. Ritual Specialists in Colonial Drag: Shamanic Interventions in 1920s Korea

2. Telling Queer Time in a Straight Empire: Yi Sang’s “Wings” (1936)

3. Problematizing Love: The Intimate Event and Same-Sex Love in Colonial Korea

4. Femininity under the Wartime System and the Symptomacity of Female Same-Sex Love

5. A Female-Dressed Man Sings a National Epic: The Film Male Kisaeng and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in 1960s South Korea

6. Queer Lives as Cautionary Tales: Female Homoeroticism and the Heteropatriarchal Imagination of Authoritarian South Korea

PART II CITIZENS, CONSUMERS, AND ACTIVISTS IN POSTAUTHORITARIAN TIMES

7. The Three Faces of South Korea’s Male Homosexuality: Pogal, Iban, and Neoliberal Gay

8. Avoiding T’ibu (Obvious Butchness): Invisibility as a Survival Strategy among Young Queer Women in South Korea

9. Mobile Numbers and Gender Transitions: The Resident Registration System, the Nation-State, and Trans/gender Identities

Contributors

Index

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478090083

1478090081

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access