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Queer Korea / Todd A. Henry.

Henry, Todd A., 1972- (author,, editor.).

Summary:

"In the past 30 years, discourses on queerness and the central political issues of LGBT life that originate in the United States-- like same-sex marriage-- have been exported and used to identify the presence of queer community in other parts of the world. QUEER KOREA brings together historical, ethnographic, and literary essays that establish a queer historiography of Korea. Editor Todd Henry asserts that Western forms of queerness, and the reading practices used to identify queerness in the American academy, are insufficient to describe the range of queer life on the Korean peninsula. He argues that particular developments in Korean modernity-- including its histories of colonialism, nationalism, and authoritarianism from the turn of the century to the Cold War-- have informed the language and politics of queerness in Korea and the Korean diaspora. In addition to compiling the first volume focused on queerness in Korea, including work from the South Korean academy, this volume asserts that placing queerness at the center of Korean studies, rather than at the margins, produces new analytic possibilities for the field."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781478002901
ISBN: 1478002905
ISBN: 9781478001928
ISBN: 1478001925
Physical Description: x, 388 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Queer Korea: toward a field of engagement / Todd A. Henry -- Unruly subjects under colonial and postcolonial modernity -- Ritual specialists in colonial drag: shamanic interventions in 1920s Korea / Merose Hwang -- Telling queer time in a straight empire: Yi Sang's 'wings' (1936) / John Whittier Treat -- Problematizing love: the intimate event and same-sex love in colonial Korea / Pei Jean Chen -- Femininity under the wartime system and the symptomacity of women's same-sex love / Ha Si-nae (Translated by Kyunghee Eo) -- A female-dressed man sings a national epic: the film male kisaeng and the politics of gender and sexuality in 1960s South Korea / Chung-kang Kim -- Queer lives as cautionary tales: women's same-sex weddings in the heteropatriarchal imagination of authoritarian South Korea / Todd A. Henry -- Citizens, consumers, soldiers, and activists in postauthoritarian times -- The three faces of South Korean men's homosexuality: pogal, iban, and neoliberal gay / John (Song Pae) Cho -- Avoiding tibu (obvious butchness): invisibility as a survival strategy among young queer women in South Korea / Layoung Shin -- Ripples of trauma: queer bodies and the temporality of violence in the South Korean military / Timothy Gitzen -- Mobile numbers and gender transitions: the resident registration system, the nation-state, and trans / gender Identities / Ruin (Translated by Max Balhorn).