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Framed by War - Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire (Paperback)
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Framed by War - Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire (Paperback)
Series: Nation of Nations
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An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and
women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a
forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were
central to the projection of US military, cultural, and political
dominance. Framed by War examines how the Korean orphan, GI baby,
adoptee, birth mother, prostitute, and bride emerged at the heart
of empire. Strained embodiments of war, they brought Americans into
Korea and Koreans into America in ways that defined, and at times
defied, US empire in the Pacific. What unfolded in Korea set the
stage for US postwar power in the second half of the twentieth
century and into the twenty-first. American destruction and
humanitarianism, violence and care played out upon the bodies of
Korean children and women. Framed by War traces the arc of intimate
relations that served as these foundations. To suture a fragmented
past, Susie Woo looks to US and South Korean government documents
and military correspondence; US aid organization records; Korean
orphanage registers; US and South Korean newspapers and magazines;
and photographs, interviews, films, and performances. Integrating
history with visual and cultural analysis, Woo chronicles how
Americans went from knowing very little about Koreans to making
them family, and how Korean children and women who did not choose
war found ways to navigate its aftermath in South Korea, the United
States, and spaces in between.
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