Queer Korea /

"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...

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Other Authors: Henry, Todd A., 1972- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 female same-sex love / Shin-ae Ha (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: female homoeroticism and the heteropatriarchal imagination of authoritarian South Korea / Todd A. Henry
  • Citizens, consumers, soldiers, and activists in postauthoritarian times. The three faces of South Korea's male homosexuality: Pogal, Iban and neoliberal gay / John (Song Pae) Cho
  • Avoiding t'ibu (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).