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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 “transgenerational haunting.”
- Echoes of Combat
Do not mistake Echoes of Combat for yet another pedestrian...
- Traumatic Realism
Analyzes the impact of historical trauma on contemporary...
- Echoes of Combat
Nov 11, 2008 · Paperback – November 11, 2008. by Grace M. Cho (Author) 4.4 35 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.
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- Grace M. Cho
- $22.5
- University of Minnesota Press
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 “transgenerational haunting.”
Defining trauma and its many manifestations has been a difficult and contentious task within trauma studies; Cho constructs a clear model for applying transgenerational haunting to the Korean diaspora in the United States, yet her exact conceptions of what constitutes trauma are sometimes fuzzy.
- Keith Russell Ph.D.
- 2009
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...
Haunting the Korean diaspora : shame, secrecy, and the forgotten war ... Cho, Grace M. Publication date 2008 Topics Korean Americans -- Psychology, Korean American ...
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. View via Publisher. web.archive.org. Save to Library.
