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Framed by war : Korean children and women at the crossroads of US empire
- Title
- Framed by war : Korean children and women at the crossroads of US empire / Susie Woo.
- Author
- Woo, Susie
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 325 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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." --
- Series Statement
- Nation of nations: immigrant history as American history
- Uniform Title
- Nation of nations (NYU Press)
- Subjects
- Orphans
- War brides
- Korea (South)
- Orphans > Korea (South) > History > 20th century
- Koreans > United States > History > 20th century
- War brides > Korea (South) > History > 20th century
- Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
- 1900-1999
- Women > Social conditions
- United States
- Korea (South) > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
- Children > Social conditions
- Koreans > Cultural assimilation > United States
- Korean War, 1950-1953 > Children > Social conditions
- Korean War (1950-1953)
- Korean War, 1950-1953 > Women > Social conditions
- History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Imagined family frames. GIs and the kids of Korea -- US aid campaigns and the Korean children's choir -- International cold war families. Missionary rescue and the transnational making of family -- Producing model Korean adoptees -- Erasing empire. Mixed-race children and their Korean mothers -- Managing Korean war brides -- Broken family frames.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-2398
- ISBN
- 9781479889914
- 1479889911
- 9781479880539
- 1479880531
- LCCN
- 2019007705
- 40029619672
- OCLC
- 1091846194
- Author
- Woo, Susie, author.
- Title
- Framed by war : Korean children and women at the crossroads of US empire / Susie Woo.
- Publisher
- New York : New York University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Nation of nations: immigrant history as American historyNation of nations (NYU Press)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029619672
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-2398