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Queer Korea (Paperback)
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Queer Korea (Paperback)
Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have
faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian
regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout
these turbulent times, "queer" Koreans were ignored, minimized, and
erased in narratives of their modern nation, East Asia, and the
wider world. This interdisciplinary volume challenges such
marginalization through critical analyses of non-normative
sexuality and gender variance. Considering both personal and
collective forces, the contributors extend individualized notions
of queer neoliberalism beyond those typically set in Western queer
theory. Along the way, they recount a range of illuminating topics,
from shamanic rituals during the colonial era and B-grade comedy
films under Cold War dictatorship to female masculinity among
today's youth and transgender confrontations with the resident
registration system. More broadly, Queer Korea offers readers new
ways of understanding the limits and possibilities of human
liberation under exclusionary conditions of modernity in Asia and
beyond. Contributors. Pei Jean Chen, John (Song Pae) Cho,
Chung-kang Kim, Todd A. Henry, Merose Hwang, Ruin, Layoung Shin,
Shin-ae Ha, John Whittier Treat
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