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Author Cho, Grace M., author.

Title Haunting the Korean diaspora : shame, secrecy, and the forgotten war / Grace M. Cho
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) : illustrations
Contents Fleshing out the ghost -- A genealogy of trauma -- Tracing the disappearance of the Yanggongju -- The fantasy of honorary whiteness -- Diasporic vision: methods of seeing trauma
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 silences and secrets that still surround it, arguing that trauma memories have been passed unconsciously through a process psychoanalysts call "transgenerational haunting". Tracing how such secrets have turned into "ghosts," Cho investigates the mythic figure of the yanggongju, literally the "Western princess," who provides sexual favors to American military personnel. She reveals how this figure haunts both the intimate realm of memory and public discourse, in which narratives of U.S. benevolence abroad and assimilation of immigrants at home go unchallenged. Memories of U.S. violence, Cho writes, threaten to undo these narratives--and so they have been rendered unspeakable
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-235) and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
HISTORY -- Military -- Korean War.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
Immigrants -- Psychology.
Korean American women -- Psychology.
Korean Americans -- Psychology.
Prostitutes.
Psychic trauma.
Psychological aspects.
Secrecy.
Shame.
War brides.
Women.
Korea (South)
United States.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816666461
0816666466