Framed by War Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire

Name: Framed by War Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire
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ISBN: 9781479880539

ISBN-10: 1479880531

ISBN-13: 9781479880539

Edition: 2019

Authors: Susie Woo

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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.…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2019
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11/19/2019
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English