Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America

Medientyp: E-Book

Titel: Beyond the Shadow of Camptown : Korean Military Brides in America

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Explanatory notes
Chronology of selected events in modern Korean history
Introduction
Chapter 1 Camptown, U.S.A.
Chapter 2 American Fever
Chapter 3 Immigrant Encounters: From Resistance to Survival
Chapter 4 Cooking American, Eating Korean
Chapter 5 Prodigal Daughters, Filial Daughters
Chapter 6 Sisters Do It for Themselves: Building Community
Biographies of women interviewed
Appendix 1 A Note on Research
Appendix 2 Overview of Scholarly Treatment of Korean Military Brides
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Beteiligte: Yuh, Ji-Yeon [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: New York, NY: New York University Press, [2002]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814789018

ISBN: 9780814789018

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Schlagwörter: Korean American women Biography ; Korean American women Social conditions 20th century ; Korean Americans Cultural assimilation ; Korean War, 1950-1953 Women ; Military spouses United States Biography ; Military spouses United States History 20th century ; War brides United States Biography ; War brides United States History 20th century ; Women immigrants United States Biography ; Women immigrants United States Social conditions 20th century ; HISTORY / Military / Korean War

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Beschreibung: Since the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, nearly 100,000 Korean women have immigrated to the United States as the wives of American soldiers. Based on extensive oral interviews and archival research, Beyond the Shadow of the Camptowns tells the stories of these women, from their presumed association with U.S. military camptowns and prostitution to their struggles within the intercultural families they create in the United States. Historian Ji-Yeon Yuh argues that military brides are a unique prism through which to view cultural and social contact between Korea and the U.S. After placing these women within the context of Korean-U.S. relations and the legacies of both Japanese and U.S. colonialism vis á vis military prostitution, Yuh goes on to explore their lives, their coping strategies with their new families, and their relationships with their Korean families and homeland. Topics range from the personal-the role of food in their lives-to the communalthe efforts of military wives to form support groups that enable them to affirm Korean identity that both American and Koreans would deny them. Relayed with warmth and compassion, this is the first in-depth study of Korean military brides, and is a groundbreaking contribution to Asian American, women's, and "new" immigrant studies, while also providing a unique approach to military history

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