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Author: Grace M. Cho. An engrossing encounter with lingering ghosts of the Korean War. Through intellectual vigor, 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.
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Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War. Book. Grace M. Cho. 2008. Published by: University of Minnesota Press. View. summary. Since the Korean War—the forgotten war—more 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.
Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War, by Grace M. Cho. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 232 pp., photographs. $67.50 cloth; $22.50 paper. Deeply personal and emotional, Haunting the Korean Diaspora is a pastiche of traumatic memories generated by the Korean War.
The real story of how they came to be in the United States remains in the shadows like the Korean War itself. Just as the war has never ended, because a victory or truce has never been declared, the lives of a diaspora of women and their families resonate with hidden shame and secrecy. The author, Grace Cho, is the daughter of one of these women.
Nov 11, 2008 · 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 ...
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Jan 1, 2008 · 169 ratings17 reviews. Since the Korean War--the forgotten war--more 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. Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history of emotional and physical violence between the United States and Korea and ...
that Cho adapts to link and explore these issues is the concept of transgenerational haunting, established by Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok, whose work on the Holocaust influences Cho’s project. “I want to offer the Korean diaspora in the United States as another site of transgenerational haunting,” Cho observes (11).
