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From Sleepless in Seattle to I Seoul You : Korean Gay Men and Cross-cultural Encounters in Transnational Times / Patrick Thomsen ; edited by Patrick Thomsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomsen, Patrick, author.
- Series:
- Queer and LGBT+ Studies (Lived Places Publishing)
- Queer and LGBT+ Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay men--Korea (South)--Seoul--Social conditions.
- Gay men.
- Gay men--Washington (State)--Seattle--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- From Sleepless in Seattle to I Seoul You
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Lived Places Publishing, 2023.
- Summary:
- Explore the lived experience of Korean gay men between Seattle, US and Seoul, Korea as told by a queer researcher from the Sāmoan diaspora.
- Contents:
- From Sleepless in Seattle to I SEOUL YOU
- From Sleepless in Seattle to I SEOUL YOU
- Copyright Page
- A message from the author
- Contents
- 1 Beginnings
- Notes on methodology: How can a Samoan come to know Korean gay worlds?
- Chapter outline
- 2 Sleepless in Seattle: The complex and complicated coming-out process
- Powerful legacies: Barnabas and the Christian church
- The Pacific Northwest Native: Cain
- Out of State: Azariah, Reuben, and Ezra
- The complicated coming-out process
- The importance of family
- Constructing narratives of convenience
- Discussion questions
- 3 Doing the transnational time warp: Constructing difference between Korean America and contemporary South Korea
- Structures/discourses of exclusion and forms of resistance
- Resisting the time warp in Korean America
- On being raised in and choosing Korean America
- Diary entry
- 4 Global Korean gaze: Influences from the “West” and the emergence of a Korean gay consciousness in Seoul
- The connections, effects, and flows of Western discourses, cultural productions, and ideas
- Lady Gaga – Born This Way and the power of pop music from the West
- All that glitters: The allure of a Western coming-out story
- Korean backwardness, Western benchmarking, and the winds of change
- The generational divide
- 5 Negotiating queer/gay futurity in Seoul Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781915271266
- 1915271266
- 9781915271259
- 1915271258
- OCLC:
- 1378198189
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