Since the Korean WarOCothe forgotten warOComore 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 OC transgenerational haunting.OCO Tracing how such secrets have turned into OC ghosts; OCO Cho investigates the mythic figure of the yanggongju; literally the OC Western princess; OCO 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 narrativesOCoand so they have been rendered unspeakable. At once political and deeply personal; ChoOCOs wide-ranging and innovative analysis of U.S. neocolonialism and militarism under contemporary globalization brings forth a new way of understandingOCoand rememberingOCothe impact of the Korean War.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Learning about the ArticBy ConstanceBought this book to learn about the Artic before going there on a cruise. It was recommended reading and I can see why. Great information and a good coffee table volume. I ordered a used book and I am not sure it was ever opened. It was in almost perfect condition (I'd say perfect but it was classified as a used book in good condition so who am I to judge otherwise). I am a very happy owner of this book. Anyone thinking of a trip to the Artic would do well to read this one.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. with excellent utilization of mapsBy John G. LambertDuring my lifetime; mans endeavors at pushing back the boundaries of the unknown were attacking the sound barrier; and going into space ... culminating in landing on the moon; and equally important; the return to our diverse blue planet alive. Then ... there were the manned descents to the deepest known ocean floor .. "Challenger Deep" in "Trieste" and "Deep Challenger" for a bold push to expand our knowledge under the sea.But; there was a time; a time spanning centuries when the curiosity of the vast unknown was not as lofty as space; nor as deep as 35;700' below the surface of the ocean. It was a shorter nautical path west ... to the Pacific; and the trade opportunities in the far east. The problem ... the newly discovered and vastly uncharted continents of the north; central and south Americas were blocking the way. There had to be a path toward the north. A pathway involving direct penetrations off the map into the dangerous uncharted cold icy unknown.James P. Delgado does a magnificent job; with excellent utilization of maps; charts; photos; paintings and drawings to lay out the historical journey of conquest; man seeking a sea passage across the often bitterly frozen and deadly north. A very good read! Great nautical history.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I was there!By Hugh Bilson LewisThis is a well-illustrated and well-written account of past explorers' struggles to find a northern passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans; through the Canadian Artic archipelago. I wish I had read this book before going on an expedition cruise through the passage. I would have been so much better prepared to appreciate the early explorers' experiences and achievements. Well done Jim Delgado!
