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Framed by War
Susie Woo
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Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
humanitarianism, Orientalism, Child Placement Service, intercountry adoption, Christian Children’s Fund, President Rhee Syngman, social welfare, Cold War, Korean Children’s Choir, Korean-black children, war waif, Immigration and Naturalization Service, orphans, adoption legislation, Korean military bride, Harry Holt, Japanese military bride, immigration, internationalism, military adoption, US military-industrial complex, cultural politics, Pearl Buck, orphanages, International Social Service, US militarization, postwar Korea, Kim Sisters, vocational training, racial discrimination, United Service Organizations, prostitution, birth mothers, nongovernmental aid agencies, model minority, mascots, US imperialism, bride school, assimilation, US militarized prostitution, transnational adoption, mixed-race children, Cold War internationalism, Korean military brides, American-Korean Foundation, liberalism, Korean adoptees, anti-communism, Korean War, US missionaries, military brides, disabilities, US-Korea relations, houseboys, World Vision, Korean Orphan Choir, US racialization